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 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 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.
6 This precocious philosopher, this wizened youth was the work of a stepmother.
7 His countenance seemed wizened and dried up like a piece of parchment.
8 Tryon stared a while into the shrewd, wizened face, then said thoughtfully:
9 He was frightening to look at, he was so wizened and sunburnt.
10 Before this his hair was white and his face wizened with age.
11 Under that wizened skin of his he has a heart of gold.
12 She was the abject wreck of a beautiful woman, wizened , prematurely aged.
13 A wizened little man had been listening to it all one day.
14 By now Donna and I were wizened veterans of shuttle launch good-byes.
15 She'd imagined Aiden's Wise One as a barbarian Aristotle, wizened and ethereal.
16 He was a man of between forty and fifty, thin and wizened .
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