Sentence examples for like a shell of from inspiring English sources

"It's like a shell of itself," he lamented.

"They look like a shell of themselves," he said.

Last year, the reliable Ryan was intercepted 16 times and looked like a shell of his former self.

South ATLANTA FALCONS Steven Jackson, running back The Falcons nearly made the Super Bowl last season even though Michael Turner played like a shell of himself.

They'll say some of the most outrageous things, and I would recognise them at the shows – they're like a shell of how they exist online.

Dwyane Wade certainly looks like a shell of his former self, and given that he's now getting the Tim Duncan treatment.

I felt like just a shell of who I used to be.

This process forms polyaniline samples with a structure consisting of a core of phenazine-like units and a shell of para-linked units.

This was not just any airliner, either, but a Fokker 100, a Dutch-manufactured plane that was once a regular in fleets around the world, but now like many others, it is a shell of its former self, and a reminder of the ceaseless course of progress.

Such a device would cost roughly half as much as current iPhones and be made with less expensive parts, like a shell made of polycarbonate plastic, or recycled components.

By necessity, his puppets are made of found scraps from the Lower East Side, like an abandoned shell of a grandfather clock turned into a little theater and a dancing puppet fashioned from a metal colander, an eggbeater and a bronze torso fished from the trash.