Chava decides to visit Cristina Maria but only finds the bombed-out shell of her house.

The bus rattled past sheds once full of merchandise, now mostly bombed-out shells.

Leo retreated from the scene, finding a bombed-out shell of a bakery where he could sit and gather his thoughts.

Thomas walked through the bombed-out shell of the town centre with his friend Bert Trick.

The city remains a blackened, bombed-out shell, but residents who fled the nonstop bombing last winter are returning to the rubble to start rebuilding their houses.

And of the Palace there was only a shell, evidently bombed-out and abandoned.

Several of the houses were little more than bombed-out shells, but thin tendrils of smoke rose from the chimneys of a couple of them.

They came up out of the subway at Fifty-third Street and walked together on the sidewalk opposite the bombed-out shells of old buildings.

Postwar planning doomed Coventry to a nondescript concrete centre apart from the striking new cathedral, which was built alongside the bombed-out shell of the old.

The center of Mostar is a bleak, bombed-out shell.