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Discover LudwigThe phrase "empty shell" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to refer to a person or thing that appears to be intact from the outside, but has not retained a sense of purpose or vitality within. For example, "The house stood empty, a hollow shell of its former self."
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"She is not an empty shell.
But it's largely an empty shell.
You're left with a damp, empty shell".
A Drobo is just a sleek, glossy, black empty shell.
"I was an empty shell of a person," she explains.
This man is no empty shell, he thought.
He says he went home an empty shell.
Safe Harbor cannot be only an empty shell".
The undulating glass extension is still an empty shell.
But Russians know that the democracy they were seemingly given in 1991 was an empty shell.
Symbolically this might have value, but in practice it would be an empty shell.
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