If a suitable vacant shell cannot be found, crabs may fight each other for shells or even kill living molluscs.

After that, he added, the city will rely entirely on rehabilitating vacant shells, a much more costly program.

Many are vacant shells or shattered heaps of stone, which as a romantic I find intriguing.

And tenant advocates quickly point to a long list of unsuccessful city housing programs that have left vacant shells all over New York.

In one program, called construction management, major construction companies are rebuilding clusters of vacant shells.

It was just a shell, vacant for 30 years with four-story-high weeds in the sunny back yard.

Now the skyline was like a vacant shell, all its promises gone.

Indeed, shabby storefronts and vacant shells still dot many of the peripheral commercial streets.

He also bought the vacant shells at 125 and 133 West 95th Street.

In one component, the city gave vacant shells to private developers.