(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 A dozen fairy cakes sit, slightly shrunken , in their wrinkled paper cases.
2 Monitors brought forward a hovering bed, shaping to support his shrunken frame.
3 The yellowed hands fell limply to the sheet, the shrunken form stiffened.
4 His shrunken legs clanked against the thin flanks of the lean beast.
5 The pyramidal flame that had been the mount of Cones was shrunken .
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 lined and wizened face of the German General stood before him.
2 The wizened eyes brightened, and when he stopped one of them whispered:
3 He looked ancient in the torchlight: more wizened and mummified than ever.
4 The ruts on the road were worn and wizened by the cold.
5 Below the top bars of a wizened grate was a chilly fire.
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 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 .
1 One was tall and stalwart; the other was small, and wizen , and misshapen.
2 A cunning, wizen head peered out at him from the gloom.
3 His face was wizen and wrinkled, his faded blue eyes dim and weak-looking.
4 His blinking eyes were steady, and his wizen face had become suddenly composed.
5 Mr. Finch's wizen little legs took him out of the room.
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 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.
6 Norcross had settled into a chair; more, he had shriveled into it.
7 Indian corn, dry and shriveled , was sometimes shocked as in the States.
8 There's something about the shriveled figure and the voice that seems familiar.
9 The shriveled pages of the book had stuck into a gummy block.
10 The bodies of those suffering from intense cold were shriveled and wrinkled.
11 He wore sandals on his shriveled feet, his toenails two inches long.
12 I did not recognize the shriveled half-person that was now my father.
13 Had the arm not been shriveled , the weight might have defeated me.
14 His complexion was swarthy, and his skin shriveled and yellow even then.
15 Wearing a puzzled frown, he pointed to a shriveled pile of leaves.
16 His body had shriveled until he weighed no more than a baby.
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