He took one last look at the burnt-out shell that had been his holiday home, and the darkness rose up in him again.

The only car, apart from their own, was a burnt-out shell.

He spent the night in the burnt-out shell of a bus station.

We stopped outside the deckhouse, a shattered and burnt-out shell.

He tried to imagine Marshlands as a burnt-out shell.

Many buildings were burnt-out shells; others looked as if a vigorous push would bring their walls tumbling down.

I grew up with images of the city as a burnt-out shell and was amazed to see how modern it is.

After the war, the cathedral remained a burnt-out shell and Kneiphof was made into a park with no other buildings.

The original farm building had caught fire some years previously, and was a burnt-out shell.

Round the last corner, she passed the burnt-out shell of the Standish mansion.