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Meanings of sere in English
Synonyms
Examples for "withered"
Examples for "withered"
1
Now, in late spring, the young crops withered in the dry ground.
2
Eleven years earlier, when she was twenty-five, her right arm had withered.
3
I found it next morning lying withered and brown in the hall-way.
4
The fruits rotted on the branches, and the leaves withered and fell.
5
A splendid vision of sunlit egalitarian uplands after the State withered away.
1
And, in general, Scutari's high idea of European civilization shrivelled and shrank.
2
Before those darting points of flame the pride of the French shrivelled.
3
The hands and feet, in their shrivelled state, are slender and delicate.
4
She bent her cheek upon the shrivelled hand resting upon the arm.
5
It was as though the long-continued cold had cracked and shrivelled him.
1
The shriveled leaves were blown from the trees by the fierce gusts.
2
He was thin and shriveled and had clearly been shriveling for years.
3
The parchment head was green with mold, and hung in shriveled tatters.
4
Roast until the grapes are juicy and slightly shriveled, about 10 minutes.
5
Open fell the mouth, revealing the dog-teeth and the blue, shriveled-looking gums.
1
Add steaks and sear on both sides, about 1 minute per side.
2
The garden was now dead and sear in the late October frost.
3
Add tuna and sear until golden, about 1 minute on both sides.
4
Working in batches, sear meatballs on all sides to develop a crust.
5
Gently coat the patties in fresh breadcrumbs and sear in hot oil.
1
The goat-herds even had forsaken the dried-up pastures and the leafless hedges.
2
She thought again of that dried-up corpse, but not for very long.
3
Well, go back to the first point: the dried-up appearance of things.
4
It is parked deep within the Endemol complex, near a dried-up river.
5
The way that little dried-up sinner found out everything was positively uncanny.
Usage of sere in English
1
He explained this to her in a sere reach of the garden.
2
Twenty years, and they the years of the sere, the yellow leaf.
3
The horizon was merely a blue haze-andthe endless land was sere.
4
The dead grass and the dead leaves made a sere, yellow world.
5
Now its trunk was snapped, its boughs crushed, its foliage turning sere.
6
The fields showed sere and grayly lifeless in the patches between sodden snow-swathes.
7
The sere stubble fields brooded in glamour, and the sky was pearly blue.
8
There were sere and brown leaves still fluttering on the scrub-oaks.
9
Here is flesh cooked sere as the shell of a tortoise.
10
Then sends down a sere Verdasco can only just get a racket on.
11
She considered through blinding tears a little patch of sere grass.
12
The wardrobe is of tweed, linen and calico and tends to the sere.
13
The land below wasn't just sere; it was also rough.
14
Many leaves were yet left on the boughs; but they were sere and withered.
15
Its sere grasses, protruding out of the snow, hissed and bent in the wind.
16
He took to proverbs; sure sign of the sere leaf in a man's mind.
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