Sentence examples for shell of a building from inspiring English sources

"What you see now is a shell of a building," he said.

It's a shell of a building that the county says isn't safe".

The sculpture looks like the burned-out shell of a building that has been bombed.

The before and after shots show the shell of a building stripped of its most magnificent feature.

What remained was a blackened shell of a building that had survived almost 900 years of French history.

The abandoned shell of a building burned down in 1966 and was replaced by a parking lot.

The shell of a new building has risen on the Clark Street site.

Now it is divided into multiple parcels in multiple ownership, including a student residence, an Art Deco tower, a fire-damaged section -- and the shell of a new building.

But now the eastern area, too, is quickly becoming condominium central; it is difficult to walk down any street without seeing the spine and shell of a new building rising.

The payoff moment was when the white fabric ceiling — a detail that you could easily miss and, wait, hang on, the walls were made of fabric, too — was sucked upward, revealing that we were in the shell of a concrete building that was being renovated.

"Unemployment is the only thing we have here", declared Dumel Deralus, smiling grimly as we sat in the shell of a concrete building that will soon be a new expanded home for the Organisation for Community Development in Thomazeau, (ODECT), an Oxfam partner working to improve economic and social conditions in the town, about two hours drive north-east of the Haitian capital Port au Prince.