Six months later he was dead, a mere shell of his former self.

The American industry today is a shell of its former self.

Like Watts's father, the town is a shell of its former self.

Now I'm just an empty shell of my former self.

You will be left a shell of your former self, magically.

The firm is now a shell of its former self.

Others followed, and, today, the market is a shell of its former self.

Unfortunately the company is nothing more than a shell of its original self.

The building itself was quite literally a shell of its former self.

This left the community a shell of its former self.