Debi Gliori

There are whole months at a time when my head is so full of ideas that I wake in the middle of the night and lie in the dark telling myself stories. There are also long, dark nights when I just know I'll never write another word: I'm finished, empty, a husk... Oh dear, yes, twitch, yawn, how I've suffered insomnia for my art.

Scottish Writer

Jack Monroe

I have a surprisingly large appetite anyway and I don't drive, I walk everywhere, I don't sit down at the moment and I pace the hallway when I'm on the phone. I think that if I didn't eat large amounts of carbs and cheese I would wither away into a husk.

British Journalist

Noel Fielding

I think the more you party and the more you get drunk, the more your soul starts to evaporate, and eventually, you're just a husk. So you have to go to the gym and build your soul up again.

English Comedian

Irving Babbitt

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

American Critic

Ken Kercheval

Most corn is combine harvested, which means it's picked and shelled in the field - but that's rough on the corn because the husk is more likely to be scratched or cracked.

American Actor

Yotam Ottolenghi

Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.

Israeli Chef

Chuck Palahniuk

In my family, we can't just sit and be together. We have to be shelling peas or husking corn or something. A larger task. Some way of being with people.

American Novelist

Alice James

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

American Writer

George MacDonald

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

Scottish Novelist

Daniel Radcliffe

A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.

British Actor

Generally found in agricultural or cooking discussions, where seeds or fruits are involved.

Botanical Context

'Husk' implies a natural protective layer for the seed inside.

Protection Purpose

Husks are usually inedible parts and need to be separated before consumption.

Edible vs Inedible

As a verb, 'husk' often describes a preparatory action in cooking or agriculture.

Preparation Step

Husking is typically done by hand, suggesting a hands-on, sometimes laborious task.

Manual Process

Used metaphorically, 'husk' conveys something that has lost its essence or value.

Metaphorical Use

This usage usually carries a sad or negative feeling, indicating a significant loss.

Emotionally Charged

 whether it's a packaging material, a table top, or building block. Our vision is local manufacturing, like the local food movement, for production. So we've created formulations for all around the world using regional byproducts. If you're in China, you might use a rice husk or a cottonseed hull.

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 they have accents, they're not idiomatic. Suddenly these characters that you've fallen in love with become husks of themselves, they're shadows of themselves. To go into a culture and to only ever process people through that kind of skrim curtain is to never truly get the culture.

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 Once radiosurgery treatment has destroyed the tumor’s cells, the body’s natural cleaning mechanism kicks in. The immune system rapidly sweeps up the husks of dead cells to flush them out of the body, while other cells transform into scar tissue.

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 The point is to use factual knowledge to convince the audience, as in Sojourner Truth's argument for women's "I have as much muscle as any man and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed

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 trying to spit or vomit some seeds as now we have come to winter the only eating the husks and then the hard part of the seed they'll get it out so that's the gray go away bad they'll always help us sometimes when they make alum coughs

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 doing initially I thought they were gathering the seed husks or the seeds from the grass but now doesn't look like they are you know normally the ants are very very important for the ecosystem because they won't gather a lot of seeds

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 fragments of ice from male and female glaciers, then covering them with charcoal, wheat husks, cloths, or willow branches so they can reproduce. Under their protective coverings, these glacierets transform into fully active glaciers

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 Teosinte’s rock-hard seeds were barely edible, but its fibrous husk could be turned into a versatile material. Over the next 4,700 years, farmers bred the plant into a staple crop, with larger cobs and edible kernels.

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 When they open again a few days later, only the dry husk of his exoskeleton remains. The mayfly is the last creature standing. As she approaches the butterwort plant,

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 eventually all that is left is a scaly husk this voracious man of war may collect