husk

Example Sentences

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If you can’t, leave before you are reduced to a soulless husk of the eager, happy person who walked into that chamber a decade ago.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

Now they are a husk of what they were - and this decline set in long before Nancy arrived and long before St Mirren humbled them at Hampden.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2025

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

Blanck pointed out the window, to the burned husk of a Berkshire Hathaway office, asking: “Your office was over there, wasn’t it?”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2025

Maize can't reproduce itself, because its kernels are securely wrapped in the husk, so Indians must have developed it from some other species.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann