Sentence examples for empty husks from inspiring English sources

His practiced fingers found empty husks.

Was it so a sleepless farmer could look out at the tractor ruts or watch empty husks blowing past the corn crib?

The empty husks of buildings in the cities of Donetsk and Lugansk testify to the brutal shelling they suffered this summer.

Yet as you drive closer, it's obvious that that these elegant structures are now nothing more than empty husks, wrecked by the bombing of the 1960s civil war.

In patches of parkland near a lake, the empty husks of the nymph-stage bugs are everywhere, left behind wherever a creature squeezed out of a gap in its shell like an extraterrestrial in a Ridley Scott movie.

In recent weeks, hundreds of stations have sprouted in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn — empty husks sprawled 30 or 50 spaces long on city sidewalks and streets, anticipating rows of bicycles that will soon protrude from the kiosk slots.

I am a shell of a person, an empty husk.

The property wasn't worth what he had agreed to pay.' As a result, most new developments stand unsold and unoccupied along the beachfronts, each one an empty husk of high-rise concrete.

Despite micromanaging his government to a standstill white anting his own party into an empty husk where the left used to be, Kevin Rudd will always be most derided for his perceived attitude.

(The best-known zombie, Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, which belongs to a closely related genus, forces its ant host to hang on to the underside of a leaf while the fungus consumes its internal tissues, after which its mushrooms sprout from the ant's empty husk).

Three months later, the building remains an empty husk.