1.   And yet to get there, it abridged civil and political liberties and turned democratic institutions into hollow shells.

2.   I like working with the heft of the entire egg better than tiptoeing around a hollow shell.

3.   In Dili, the capital, some buildings still stand as hollow shells, many with corrugated tin roofs thrown on top.

4.   Iraq signed an agreement, but that proved to be a hollow shell, and before the end of the year there was bombing anyway.

5.   The hollow shell has become an operative metaphor for newly skewed priorities.

6.   Turn each iceberg over and gently break into the center and remove it, creating a hollow shell.

7.   Gill netters talk with disgust of hauling up seemingly normal fish, only to find a hollow shell with a squirming hagfish inside.

8.   It chewed through the terminal building, leaving only a hollow shell of mangled steel beams and concrete rubble.

9.   Anton Domislic squinted up through the morning sun at the hollow shell that was once his house.