husk

A recent strike on one of its warehouses—among the largest such facilities in Russia—left behind a smoking husk roughly the size of New York City’s Grand Central Terminal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

I’m almost positive this piece existed; and the fact that I couldn’t find any mention of it in the sad, hollowed-out husk of the 2026 internet offers no proof that it didn’t.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026

Traditionally, logs made of coir - coconut husk - have been imported from South-East Asia to reduce erosion, hold back water and also re-wet degraded peatland.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

But it will continue leading the court toward becoming, to quote Chief Justice John Roberts’ dismissive description of the key precedent in this case, “a dried husk of whatever people used to think it was.”

From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2025

The old fire was seeping back into this strange, wistful husk of my father.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

This version leans hard into fresh corn, still in its cool green husks and already smelling sweet before you cut it from the cob.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

Other forms of Metarhizium are already commonly cultivated around the world on cheap materials like chicken droppings, rice husks and wheat scraps that are readily available after harvest.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2025

The CO2 that emerges into the air is sucked away and then concentrated using charred coconut husks ready to be stored.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2025

Controversial newsmakers—Monica Lewinsky, Tonya Harding, Lorena Bobbitt among them—had the term pinioned to them like a scarlet letter, stripping away their accomplishments and leaving only scorned husks of their real selves.

From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2025

And sleep, such sleep...deep and sweet and sound as I had not known for many nights; it claimed me even as I sat amid the rice husks and fish scales and drying salt.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

Unhusked ears of corn can be kept loose in the vegetable crisper while husked corn should be kept in a plastic bag for extra protection.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2022

The 27-year-old, clearly cognizant of the potential dry-cleaning bill at hand, husked his shirt for the recovery shot.

From Golf Digest ● Mar. 31, 2019

Her strong voice echoed across the fields as she husked corn.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 19, 2018

When he was growing up he would work, along with the other Malay speakers, on South Island collecting coconuts for the Clunies-Ross family to be husked and sold to the mainland.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 28, 2017

The cornhusking was forgotten, the fun of it, the singing, the capering that had gone on while they husked the corn.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry

The husking trays were containers with a large oval base and low walls, made of coarse clay.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2024

One of those offerings: coconut husking, or removing the hard outer layer around the shell, a necessary step to get to the meat and liquid inside.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2023

Yes, there’s a staginess to it all: the quintet sitting around on the floor husking vegetables, dismantling a chicken, dining.

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2022

As Alex, Sturridge does a good job of husking himself as the story goes sour.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 12, 2019

Dad lingered on for a few more days, ice fishing, setting my traps and snares, and husking walnuts.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George