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How to use withering in a sentence

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Equally suggestive is her interpretation of Fanon's withering attack upon the postcolonial national bourgeoisie.
Flub it up or use it out of its context and you find yourself the subject of a withering stare-down.
His most withering looks are saved for Radcliffe's speccy detective Harry, and rightly so.
She gave me a withering look of utter contempt and proceeded to lecture me at length about the finer nuances of Mother's Day.
She sat down in her chair looking furious and just gave me a sneer and a withering look.
The lady at the neighbouring table, with wrinkled skin, a beaky nose and bulging eyes, swathed in netted black, cast her withering glance.
Sometimes when we tried to speak Spanish we were met with withering sneers.
Unlike those who are rallying behind the president, Vidal retains his withering contempt for the man.
Combining foxy irony with withering disdain, McDiarmid presents us with the tragedy of a man for whom the mask has become the face.
It will mean the withering on the vine of Tory opposition to UK membership of the euro.
From this cover, they swept the flats in front of their breastworks with withering gunfire.
With the fruit withering on the vine, word came that a deal was being cut between Habbibi and Dostum.
Finally, an attempt is made to tie the episode of the fig tree withering to Homer.
For a withering smackdown, read his take on the interview in the the magazine.
Crops were withering, cattle were dying, and the river that once sculpted canyons was a trickle.
Modernity requires constant and unceasing upheaval, and its absence does not bring blessed peace, but withering and death.
Iraqi tanks came under withering fire, and Iraqi troops once again offered little resistance.
Her sultry good looks, airy insouciance and withering scorn would have made me her instant slave.
Now, my Tagalog isn't strong enough for me to have responded in kind, but I did cast her a withering glance.
Last week, making his second appearance at the corruption trial, he launched a withering attack on his critics.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The last mentioned give rise to her explosiveness, withering sarcasm, and anger.
To them harlotry is in all its blasting, withering phases, a familiar story before they have reached the age of ten years.
The face of time had been imaged like the withering mask of a corpse to him.
Indusium hood-shaped, fixed centrally behind the sorus and arching over it, soon withering, often illusive.
As for me, the garden of my mind is withering, and I am consuming the seed I ought to sow.
Her son was not, and her fair daughter was withering before her, as a flower on which the cankerworm had fixed its teeth.
Yet even in this stage of withering a little incident happened, which showed that the sap of affection was not all gone.
The elaborate sarcasm of these questions was intended to be withering.
As he laid over he saw the withering fire on the runway lift.
The reason for such an uncharacteristic lapse in the usual withering sarcasm and beetle-browed belligerence?
His excoriation of Douglas was scornfully withering and scorching.
We find it suddenly withering, when it should be most fresh and luxuriant.
Wopsle as Revenge, throwing his blood-stained sword in thunder down, and taking the War-denouncing trumpet with a withering look.
They seem to see the withering effect of criticism on original genius.
But to his field repaired each day to view his withering crop.
They met the Rumi charge with a withering hail of lead and fire.
The hay-scented fern is very sensitive, withering with the early frosts.
Something unknown, withering and poisonous, had entered his life, passed near him, touched him, and he was deteriorating.
The unknown here again darted at Cropole one of his withering glances.
They halted, they stood their ground a moment against that withering deluge of fire, then they broke, faced about and swept toward the ditch like chaff before a gale.
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