(Used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture.
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Examples for "withered"
Examples for "withered"
1Now, in late spring, the young crops withered in the dry ground.
2Eleven years earlier, when she was twenty-five, her right arm had withered.
3I found it next morning lying withered and brown in the hall-way.
4The fruits rotted on the branches, and the leaves withered and fell.
5A splendid vision of sunlit egalitarian uplands after the State withered away.
1And, in general, Scutari's high idea of European civilization shrivelled and shrank.
2Before those darting points of flame the pride of the French shrivelled.
3The hands and feet, in their shrivelled state, are slender and delicate.
4She bent her cheek upon the shrivelled hand resting upon the arm.
5It was as though the long-continued cold had cracked and shrivelled him.
1The shriveled leaves were blown from the trees by the fierce gusts.
2He was thin and shriveled and had clearly been shriveling for years.
3The parchment head was green with mold, and hung in shriveled tatters.
4Roast until the grapes are juicy and slightly shriveled, about 10 minutes.
5Open fell the mouth, revealing the dog-teeth and the blue, shriveled-looking gums.
1Add steaks and sear on both sides, about 1 minute per side.
2The garden was now dead and sear in the late October frost.
3Add tuna and sear until golden, about 1 minute on both sides.
4Working in batches, sear meatballs on all sides to develop a crust.
5Gently coat the patties in fresh breadcrumbs and sear in hot oil.
1He explained this to her in a sere reach of the garden.
2Twenty years, and they the years of the sere, the yellow leaf.
3The horizon was merely a blue haze-andthe endless land was sere.
4The dead grass and the dead leaves made a sere, yellow world.
5Now its trunk was snapped, its boughs crushed, its foliage turning sere.
1The goat-herds even had forsaken the dried-up pastures and the leafless hedges.
2She thought again of that dried-up corpse, but not for very long.
3Well, go back to the first point: the dried-up appearance of things.
4It is parked deep within the Endemol complex, near a dried-up river.
5The way that little dried-up sinner found out everything was positively uncanny.
6The house contained a dried-up old woman and four white-headed, half-naked children.
7A dried-up cone is crushed to sudden splinters under my bare foot.
8He was small, dried-up and weather-beaten, and wore a thin, threadbare coat.
9Mr. Solomon Madgin was a little dried-up man, about sixty years old.
10Is it any wonder that she is thin and dried-up and snappy?
11Big lawn, dried-up pond, hedge, stone bird, goldenrod, TV aerial, no cat.
12And in the old dried-up soil, how many strange treasures remain hidden!
13So what'll you be then, a dried-up prune of an old maid?
14It's quite possible that he also knows about the dried-up well by now.
15She looked defiantly at the yellow, dried-up creature in the bed.
16Hawk led the way down into the thorn-bushes and dried-up plants.