Sentence examples for shell of a city from inspiring English sources

Monrovia today remains a shell of a city.

What was there before was "nothing — ashes, an empty shell of a city bombed ten times over by three armies".

Niagara Falls, N.Y., is a shell of a city: the stucco exteriors of low-rise motels wear the stains of neglect; paint peels on old bungalows, their porches sagging; and weeds poke through the cracks of downtown sidewalks.

Detroit has really been broke, broken and in decay now for decades — a shell of a city, with a small downtown and some scattered neighborhoods dissected by miles of abandoned storefronts and vacant lots.

For over a decade, Hargeisa remained a tattered, smoking shell of a city.

Hear the shots of snipers echo through the streets and see what life remains in this shell of a city.

It had become a shell of a metropolis with a hollowed-out city center -- unusual for a European city -- and a population that lived among the ruins of its once iconic factory complexes.

Alexander Zakharchenko, a rebel leader in Donetsk, told journalists: "Not a single convoy of refugees was shot at in the Luhansk region". There has been sustained artillery shelling of Luhansk, a city of 250,000 people, where civilians are suffering chronic shortages of water, food and electricity.

It tells the story of Blakely's endeavor to transform the shell of a cherished American city into a city that could not only survive but thrive.

Flint might be a empty shell of a once great city but it's not going to become a lawless wasteland on FPO's watch.

Some say the fighting there exposes the lie of American justice by showing that the world's sole superpower is ready to avenge the killings and mutilation of four American security contractors by sending marines to shell and invade a city of 300,000 people.