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

The paper survives as a husk, but the institution that became one of the cathedrals of world journalism is gone.

From Slate • Feb. 5, 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

"A white dwarf is the leftover husk of a star that has finished fusing its hydrogen," said Burgasser.

From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2025

She looked like she’d been stuck in a cool, dark mausoleum for decades, slowly withering into a desiccated husk.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan