(Used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture.
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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.
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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