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Meanings of empty shell in English

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Usage of empty shell in English
1
An empty shell case hung up in the trenches and in billets.
"Over the Top," by an American Soldier Who Went / Together with ...
2
But now the real Athens was gone; only the empty shell remained.
General History for Colleges and High Schools
3
The empty shell is left lying on the scene of the tragedy.
Social Life in the Insect World
4
The young scorpions depart leaving the mother scorpion simply an empty shell.
Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers
5
He was her heart, and without him she was an empty shell.
Mine
6
One of them contained an empty shell, on which the hammer rested.
The Crime of the French Café and Other Stories
7
Cheyenne Gundy described herself as being an empty shell of a person.
News.com.au
8
They retreat from this empty shell that was once a gas station.
Night of knives
9
I think that she was mostly an empty shell of a girl.
Wizardborn
10
To make every soul in his kingdom an empty shell of servitude.
Snow Like Ashes
11
He looked into his eyes and behind them saw an empty shell.
The hangman's daughter
12
You're just an empty shell with no soul and all their memories.
Monster Hunter Vendetta
13
Left me till the last, left me sitting on an empty shell!
All-Wool Morrison / Time -- Today, Place -- the United States, P...
14
There were deep imprints in the forest mold-anempty shell upon the leaves.
Then I'll Come Back to You
15
Spencer could see straight through the empty shell into the barn's great room.
Heartless
16
An empty shell of a building deep in the heart of the city.
The last 10 seconds
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Ireland
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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