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Withered in sentence

46 examples of Withered in a sentence

After all, my story begins with a dried, withered spinach plant and it's only getting better from there.
If you Google "evil," a word that should surely have withered by now, you come up with 136 million hits in a third of a second.
But typically that sector has withered away during conflict.
The world's ambitious innovators and influencers now could get their ideas to spread far and wide, and so the art of the spoken word pretty much withered on the vine.
All ambiguity about Michael Myers has withered away thanks to this series' chronic habit of arseholing about with its continuity and pulling relatives out of nowhere.
Sadly my expectations withered slowly away since the very beginning.
As the show went on, it withered and lost its depth.
As America and Japan strengthened their alliance after 1960, peace talks withered.
The aide then withered under the (Chinese) ambassador’s horrified stare.”
The right always saw the post-communist interlude as a type of locust years – a time when the seeds of reform withered.
Maize plants have withered, hitting poor rural families hard.
Its sole comfort, it seems, is that it has not yet withered away.
Disoriented and bewildered, the party withered under the pressure of the media assault, which was mostly carried out on state-run TV channels.
With the emergence of truly global world trade over the ensuing century and a half, Asia’s economic dominance withered.
All Stimulus Roads Lead to ChinaBEIJING – Now that the “green shoots” of recovery have withered, the debate over fiscal stimulus is back with a vengeance.
After five waterless days, the treated plants still stood tall and robust, while the untreated plants wilted and withered.
It failed, because when the bilateral talks collapsed, readiness to engage in regional cooperation withered under the despair of failed politics and the bloody reality of the Second Intifada.
More interested in reigning than in governing, state institutions withered under Idris’s neglect.
Public and private institutions have withered away as state-backed strongmen have financed militias and other clients through revenues raised from illicit activities (gold mines, contraband, and the like).
Her pale face framed in a borderless cap was more wrinkled than a withered russet apple.
To get back something of her, he fetched from the cupboard at the bedside an old Rheims biscuit-box, in which he usually kept his letters from women, and from it came an odour of dry dust and withered roses.
The ghost thus happily laid, the department of Miss Peyton flourished; and by the time the afternoon's sun had traveled a two hours' journey from the meridian, the formal procession from the kitchen to the parlor commenced, under the auspices of Caesar, who led the van, supporting a turkey on the palms of his withered hands, with the dexterity of a balance master.
By and by Joe timidly ventured upon a roundabout "feeler" as to how the others might look upon a return to civilization--not right now, but--Tom withered him with derision!
She could write on a slate, and in this way asked for what she required; then the hands withered, and it became impossible for her to raise them or hold a pencil.
They came to see him consequently, and found him sitting up in bed in a green baize waistcoat and a red Toledo cap, and so withered and dried up that he looked as if he had been turned into a mummy.
He rose in bed, drew up his withered limbs, and rolled about in uncouth positions; he was acting--he was at the theatre.
The excitement, which had cast an unwonted light over the man's face, while he spoke, subsided as he concluded; and pressing his withered hands together in a hasty and disordered manner, he shuffled from the room.
There was a lean and haggard woman, too--a prisoner's wife--who was watering, with great solicitude, the wretched stump of a dried-up, withered plant, which, it was plain to see, could never send forth a green leaf again--too true an emblem, perhaps, of the office she had come there to discharge.
There is not a messenger or process-server attached to it, who wears a coat that was made for him; not a tolerably fresh, or wholesome-looking man in the whole establishment, except a little white-headed apple-faced tipstaff, and even he, like an ill-conditioned cherry preserved in brandy, seems to have artificially dried and withered up into a state of preservation to which he can lay no natural claim.
Mr. Pott darted a look of contempt, which might have withered an anchor.