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How to use shrivels in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word shrivels? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
In principle, continuity is eminently desirable but the principle shrivels if what is being continued doesn't have demonstrable worth.
As biodiversity shrivels, we lose a vast store of information and potential cures.
Prison don't make ya tough, it makes ya weak, your spirit just shrivels up inside.
He said in the court, when the interrogator pounds the desk he said it just shrivels me up inside.
The insect then loses water, shrivels, and dies from dehydration.
My thousand daily cares are like great chains of iron on my spirit, and my soul shrivels inside me as if weeping heart's-blood from a thousand cuts.
After the baby is born, the cord shrivels up and you get an innie.
While one turbinate engorges with blood and chokes down airflow, the other shrivels to permit big sniffs.
Examples from Classical Literature
As it withers, the many-pointed leaf of the white bryony and the bine as it shrivels, in like manner, do their part.
Unfortunately the fruit is susceptible to black-rot and shrivels after ripening.
When the musing spider steps upon the red-hot shovel, he first exhibits a wild surprise, then he shrivels up.
All the proud foliage Of the crested forests is shorn, and shrivels down Beneath the blade of ice.
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