Sentence examples for and a shell of from inspiring English sources

There will still, technically, be a ban on ordinary tourism, and a shell of an embargo, but with many more exceptions to both.

After saying little about Netscape over the last year, America Online is now talking up its benefits largely to combat the impression in Silicon Valley, reported in a number of published accounts, that Netscape is in disarray and a shell of its former self.

All that exists in return for so much money are minor works on the west stand, floodlights understood to have cost a little over £100,000, and a shell of a new East Stand for which the developer, Buckingham Group, says it was paid only £442,000, before it downed tools.

A plasmon is a type of electrical wave, and a shell of a particular size will resonate with a plasmon of a particular frequency, rather as a bell of a particular size resonates with a particular note when struck.That is useful because an object's plasmon-resonance frequency governs many of its optical properties, including which wavelength of light it absorbs most easily.

He talked of trusting in great players who had won things, but Thierry Henry, his captain, has become peripheral at Barcelona; William Gallas, his main defender, has scarcely played since the beginning of the year because of calf injury; Patrick Vieira is 33 and a shell of the midfield warrior he was.

Today, Nokia is down to a market cap of $26 billion and a shell of its former self.

She'd scooped out all the cake and left a shell of frosting on her plate, which she'd saved for last.

Murphy said Meghan, then 17 years old, was traumatized, nearly drowned and "is a shell of her former self".

As each day passed I found myself becoming more and more of a shell of my former self and although I put on a front to the majority of my friends, my mask was beginning to fall.

They were forced from their home and now inhabit a shell of a building with no windows or doors and struggle to feed themselves.

And Nortel is a shell of the enterprise that had $29 billion in sales as recently as 2000.