Sentence examples for a shell of empire from inspiring English sources

There remains a shell of empire today, in fact, like sun-baked ruins overgrown with grass, e.g. the mad king (a purple-faced Pelini raging on the sideline), the fallen hero (Ndamukong Suh stomping opponents in the N.F.L. as penalty flags rain down around him).

Calcutta was a shell, the shell of empire, and from inside this shell nine million Indians spilled out.

To be sure, the Nickel Empire, as Coney Island was known, is still a shell of its former glory.

A shell of a man, really".

I am a shell of a man.

He's a shell of a man.

"It was a shell of a cabin.

I was a shell of person.

She was a shell of herself.

I would probably be a shell of a person".

He just seems... adrift, lost, a shell of a man.