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"Husk" in a Sentence (12 examples)
I am going to husk rice.
Let's husk the coconut.
He's just a husk of his former self.
The walnut, hazelnut and chestnut are wrapped in a husk and a shell.
The machine is used to remove the husk and bran layers to produce a white kernel that is free of impurities.
The startup company Husk Power Systems has designed a system fueled by the husk of rice plants — usually discarded after the rice grains are harvested.
A coconut has a very thick husk.
His attorney was a dried-up husk of a man.
Unlike dogs, cats have retractable claws which do not wear down when walking. Instead, cats pull the old husk of nail from their claws by raking them down some convenient piece of wood, to expose a new sharp claw underneath.
The symptoms of Husk are a constant cough, rapid loss of flesh, difficulty in breathing and, in the later stages, loss of appetite and diarrhœa.
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Back on the veranda he said to Lace gravely, "I do believe that poor child's in the family way." Lace, tracing the pattern of the matting with his boot, husked, and murmured, "Yes — I think so.
The French captain did not immediately respond; he looked at his men with a miserable expression [...]; still he hesitated, drooped, and finally husked, "Je me rends," with a look still more wretched.
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