Sentence examples for a shell of what from inspiring English sources

Dozens of amendments are in the offing that could compromise the bill into a shell of what is clearly needed.

They are a shell of what they once were.

"And while the Mafia is a shell of what it once was, we haven't stamped it out yet".

And on Peoria Avenue to the north there is the largely abandoned 8.3-acre McLain Village shopping center, a shell of what it was when built in 1962.

"This time when I met Barack [Bear-ick, he said], he was a shell of what he was prior to that," Zane recalled.

One of the men, Sam Wong, said he has seen Chinatown change from a cultural epicenter to a shell of what it once was.

"A monument like the Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis is today a hollow shell of what it once was.

His influence a mere shell of what it was in his heyday of near-complete control — a downfall one West Wing staffer characterized as moving from the enforcer to an afterthought.

Even the once-grand Palatine Hotel was demolished, a sad shell of what it had been.

It has become a hollow shell of what it once was.

Any emotion attached was a faded shell of what had once been real hatred, fear, anger.