Lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.
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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 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 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 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.
6 When their crier, a small wizen - faced man, began the Azan with a voice
7 The little creature hid her wizen face in her withered little hands and sobbed.
8 The firelight rose and fell on his wizen little face and his nervous, drooping hands.
9 He held out one of his wizen little arms.
10 At length a small wizen - faced man appeared from below.
11 Stella's eyes also rested upon the tiny wizen face.
12 Then a little wizen -faced , dried-up old man said he would put up $400.
13 He is a small, wizen - faced man, quiet, self-contained, and fond-exceedinglyfond-ofhaving his own way.
14 His fingers crooked, his body in a bow, his wizen , cruel face pallid in the ghostly light.
15 I'll twist that wizen gullet of hers the next time she shows her ugly black face here!
16 His eyes were dim; his hair had turned completely grey; his face was wizen ; his figure had shrunk.
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