Sentence examples for shell of downtown from inspiring English sources

We joggled over train tracks into the shell of downtown.

Approaching the derelict shell of downtown Detroit, we see full-grown trees sprouting from the tops of deserted skyscrapers.

Despite an ostensible cease-fire, violence flared across the country, with a roadside bomb killing 10 soldiers in the south, according to the state-run news, while YouTube videos posted from the devastated city of Homs showed flames and intense black smoke after government shelling of a downtown residential neighborhood.

Within the squats are piles of rotting vegetables and prawn shells taken from the dumpsters of downtown restaurants frequented by affluent tourists.

And to the amazement of native Memphians, they are also drawn by the renewed promise of downtown, an empty shell for nearly three decades that is becoming one of the most energetic downtowns in the country.

He was 19 during the city's 1967 riot, which left sections of downtown Detroit a gutted shell.

But it did not convert the huge Filene's flagship store, leaving a vacant, hulking shell that still stands in the heart of downtown Boston.

It flourished for decades as a home for manufacturing and auto industry executives and visiting elite, but eventually succumbed to the same troubles that left much of downtown Detroit an empty shell.

Their three-story row house at 1401 East Preston Street, northeast of downtown, is nothing more than a blackened shell.

They fear the bombings that have targeted parts of downtown Damascus, just blocks away, and the shells that have occasionally hit the Old City.

In between, the small downtown area is a shell of empty, crumbling shop fronts and derelict, boarded-up houses interspersed with the odd bar, ramshackle residential street and tracts of wasteland.