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29 examples of Wither in a sentence

I'm doing weight-bearing exercise, so that I have the muscle strength so that when I start to wither, I have more time that I can still move around.
And whether or not body building is your hobby, muscles need your constant attention because the way you treat them on a daily basis determines whether they will wither or grow.
Our imagination might shrink; our hearts might dwindle, and our humanness might wither if we stay for too long inside our cultural cocoons.
Frankie Darro, who got into all kinds of onscreen trouble during a brief tenure as Warners' favorite Rotten Street Kid, is an ideal JD -- a handsome, charismatic toughie with a pug nose and a hate-filled stare that could wither steel.
Faith in a Globalized AgeLONDON – For years, it was assumed, certainly in the West, that, as society developed, religion would wither away.
It would be interesting to know how many of those at Beijing’s Central Party School – the party’s main educational institute – believe that the Chinese state is about to wither away, or ever will.
With bin Laden’s death, Al Qaeda is likely to wither away as an organization.
Unless its members respect the rules by which it is defined, it will wither.
As long as the United States and the West Enropeans are unwilling to set up new Atlantic institutions to further their economic and political relations, all those promising ideas of coperation will wither.
India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, had hoped that caste consciousness would wither away after independence.
After all, unless she can turn around the eurozone, her rising profile at home and in Europe could easily wither.
Economies would wither, violent conflict would increase, and women, minorities, and journalists would suffer as “out” movements use scare tactics that encourage the extreme among them.
As unemployment falls and middle-class incomes begin growing, the populist temptation will wither, or so they hope.
The central government and its revenue-raising capacity cannot be allowed to wither away.
Africa’s Integration ImperativeKarl Marx predicted that states would wither away in anticipation of an idyllic communist society capable of auto-regulating economic imbalances and empowering the masses.
If modern macroeconomists do not reconnect with history – if they do not realize just what their theories are crystallized out of and what the point of the enterprise is – then their profession will wither and die.
When all governments in the region reject extremism, there will be no place for extremists, and terrorism will wither away.
If Romania's peasants come to believe that the EU insists that they hug their pigs, not butcher them with knives, their fidelity towards the social democrats will wither.
Translation, data analysis, legal research – a whole range of high-skilled jobs may wither away.
“Hope is like a muscle – we must exercise it or it will wither.
China’s own economic miracle made Hong Kong less important to it economically, while Deng’s violent suppression of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests eviscerated any hope that communist rule would wither away.
But that’s just the problem: interest rates will not stay at zero forever, and economic growth in an overly indebted US will wither under just the slightest rise in borrowing costs.
The traveller goes his way and leaves the wicked thorns to wither where they are.
Well, she must miss them, for my hand would wither before I could do them now.
An inconstant elf, he knows not himself,Nor his own changing mind an hour,He'll smile in your face, and, with wry grimace,He'll wither your youngest flower.
Fashion and speech and manners may change, but the spirit of enterprise within that square mile or two of land must not change, for when it withers all that has grown from it must wither also.
O! she was as a crown of green palms to my grey locks; and she must wither in a night, like the gourd of Jonah!--Child of my love!--child of my old age!--oh, Rebecca, daughter of Rachel! the darkness of the shadow of death hath encompassed thee."
She went into the house; I stayed behind a few minutes to plant in my garden a handful of roots I had dug up in the forest, and which I feared would wither if I left them till the morning.
It seemed to me that, should he become the possessor of Mr. Oliver's large fortune, he might do as much good with it as if he went and laid his genius out to wither, and his strength to waste, under a tropical sun.