husks
Example Sentences
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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
It hints at the trend of hedge fund managers buying local publications to drain them until they’re husks of their former selves.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 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
Mrs. Cybulskis shrugged, raising her hands, which were full of corn husks.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
