Sentence examples for shell of a man from inspiring English sources

A shell of a man, really".

I am a shell of a man.

We were sentencing a shell of a man.

"He is the shell of a man that he used to be".

This is a marvellous response, because it wasn't too long ago that Roddick looked a shell of a man.

See you in 7 hours when I assume you will be an ashen-faced, broken shell of a man".

Yet it's Kurosawa's films "High and Low" (Aug. 11-13) and "Stray Dog" that gave Mr. Eastwood the second calling card of his career: Dirty Harry, a shell casing of a man who wasn't much different from the criminals he pursued.

When I look at old photographs of my former self, I see a hollow shell of a man a stranger filled with all of those same noxious elements, staring back at me.

Parents would be loath to let their toddlers play tag around the burnished shell of a retired Fat Man or Little Boy, but here they were, making a hobbyhorse of a bomb.

Latterly, his health deteriorated to the point where he became a shell of the man he once was.

CNN's reporter Nic Robertson said Megrahi looked far worse than he had done when he last saw him two years ago and described his appearance as "much iller, much sicker, his face is sunken...just a shell of the man he was".