Lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.
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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.
1A dozen fairy cakes sit, slightly shrunken, in their wrinkled paper cases.
2Monitors brought forward a hovering bed, shaping to support his shrunken frame.
3The yellowed hands fell limply to the sheet, the shrunken form stiffened.
4His shrunken legs clanked against the thin flanks of the lean beast.
5The pyramidal flame that had been the mount of Cones was shrunken.
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.
1The lined and wizened face of the German General stood before him.
2The wizened eyes brightened, and when he stopped one of them whispered:
3He looked ancient in the torchlight: more wizened and mummified than ever.
4The ruts on the road were worn and wizened by the cold.
5Below the top bars of a wizened grate was a chilly fire.
1One was tall and stalwart; the other was small, and wizen, and misshapen.
2A cunning, wizen head peered out at him from the gloom.
3His face was wizen and wrinkled, his faded blue eyes dim and weak-looking.
4His blinking eyes were steady, and his wizen face had become suddenly composed.
5Mr. Finch's wizen little legs took him out of the room.
6When their crier, a small wizen-faced man, began the Azan with a voice
7The little creature hid her wizen face in her withered little hands and sobbed.
8The firelight rose and fell on his wizen little face and his nervous, drooping hands.
9He held out one of his wizen little arms.
10At length a small wizen-faced man appeared from below.
11Stella's eyes also rested upon the tiny wizen face.
12Then a little wizen-faced, dried-up old man said he would put up $400.
13He is a small, wizen-faced man, quiet, self-contained, and fond-exceedinglyfond-ofhaving his own way.
14His fingers crooked, his body in a bow, his wizen, cruel face pallid in the ghostly light.
15I'll twist that wizen gullet of hers the next time she shows her ugly black face here!
16His eyes were dim; his hair had turned completely grey; his face was wizen; his figure had shrunk.