Sentence examples for leave a shell from inspiring English sources

Remove from the pan, allow to cool, halve lengthways, then scoop out the pulp using a spoon, without breaking the skin, to leave a shell.

Like that fungus that infects an ant and forces it to climb to a place conducive to its own parasitic growth – killing the ant in the process – the legal fees strip whatever was good out of a company leave a shell populated by lawyers and hangers on.

Grade-two listed Victorian terrace was left a shell.

Mr. Murcutt tore out the entire inside of the house, leaving a shell of three walls.

Over 400 significant objects were rescued from the fire but the house was left a shell and the roof collapsed.

"They could have slaughtered everyone in Faroshga," said Mohammed Essa, 35, a shoemaker, referring to the shopping center that two suicide bombers entered Monday morning and left a shell.

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

The £3 million grade-two listed Victorian terrace near Hyde Park was left a shell after the blaze, which is believed to have started in the basement.

One of the UK's finest 18th-century Palladian mansions has been left a "shell" after a devastating fire collapsed its roof, ceilings and floors.

When the flames were finally put out, the red brick building was left a shell, with every window broken or blown out and deep, black smudges spread across its facade.

They were watching for cylindrical depressions in the earth: evidence that under the clay fort had once stood timber fence posts, perhaps for so long that the wood had decayed, leaving a shell of earth behind.