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Sentence Examples He was an ancient, withered man, wrinkled and creased but corded like a whip, tempered hard in the forge of the Wilds. A Hampshire airman will be proving that age certainly has not withered him when he pilots a replica First World War plane this weekend. The numbers of flowers closed, opened and withered in every marked inflorescence were periodically recorded during the flowering period. For half a century Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau withered any rival in vocal range with an austere glare and an iron grip on recording opportunities. With blazing and scornful eyes she fairly withered him by demanding whatever he meant by speaking to respectable people that way. Caroline merely tucked a curl behind her ear and withered him with a stare she had studied from Margaret Thatcher until he wilted completely. Dole's right arm is withered and useless from wounds received in World War Two, and he never made a big hoo-ha about it in the '96 campaign. Cows and herdsmen alike shun the warm sand of a track bordered with withered sedge, to hide in the shade of an oakwood on a nearby knoll. In the emergency feeding centre, Malawian nuns feed withered infants with protruding ribcages an emergency mix. Yet, while imperialism has generally withered, other forms of domination or hegemony have arisen. Tiny and withered by hard living as she appeared, she still wore shocking strawberry blond braids down to her waist. Her face was withered from long years of struggle yet lightened with blissfulness from so many happy times. In recent photos, however, he looked haggard and ravaged, his face a withered pumpkin atop a doughy gut. Gradually but surely, that tiresome old anecdote has sapped my strength, undermined my constitution, withered my life. On the path a few solitary scraps of withered white and blue police tape were a solemn reminder of the crime scene. I suppose I should have stopped, if only because it seemed in such poor taste, calibrating my body's improvement as Dad's withered away. Whatever middle-class donnishness I inherited quickly withered as I became involved in left-wing student and anti-racist politics. Sam, what on earth possessed you to spend all that time making a terrine that has the appearance of an ugly, withered, old leather boot? His brothers could never quite agree on his ransom price, so Ferdinand withered away in captivity. Tomoko strode happily and grinned as she walked up to her bike, covered with an old withered rainproof blanket. Show More Sentences There has been a stunted growth of various kharif crops and in certain parts the crop has withered. The black windcheater and jeans stuck to her lean form, making her appear like a withered scarecrow. It gets very long, and then it goes white, a grizzled mat over withered dugs. Whenever he touched the ground the grass withered and died underneath his foot. Staring in disbelief Kana realized that the flower had withered slowly beneath her touch. Then all grew withered and lost shape, becoming a pulpy mass, like gelatin. Development of the tagged inflorescences was examined daily until the flowers had withered. The tree itself had been small and gnarly, withered and twisted like the arthritic seizure of an old man. He sees the crops withered through drought and devoured by pests on a shrivelled land struggling to escape the paralysis of famine. My friends' faces and arms tanned a beautiful bronze while my arms withered, blistered, burned and peeled. For the old and withered Nonna Rosa, he restores her youthful dewiness, awakening all the passion deadened by her long passionless marriage. Her eyes were a pale red, her body seemed withered and drawn out, and she was constantly yawning. Lord Keel was covered in several large wounds in his chest and his skin had withered and thinned as if he had been dried like a mannequin. The doors opened and two aged citizens emerged, a withered old crow and a thin old duffer. With no need for locomotion, the arms and legs withered into pencil thin stumps. The other Guards stood back in horror as the man's body hit the floor, a gaunt, withered, specter of their own future. The second face was withered and ancient, with watery eyes peering out from above a crooked hooked nose. Her appearance in The Brothers Grimm sees her play the Mirror Queen, a withered 500-year-old crone. Over the years, his muscles withered, his bones thinned, and he suffered repeated bouts of infection and life-threatening complications. Her fingers were old and withered, wrinkles and extra skin from weight loss that had happened too quickly made the effect even worse. Show More Sentences Prolonged boozing can actually eat away at a man's body, leaving his wedding tackle withered, his muscles punier and his bones weaker. I imagined a withered old crone with faerie wings dull and tattered with age. Everything that had made me a beautiful, cheerful girl had withered and died on the twenty-third of June. Exceptionalist ideas had withered in part as revisionist historians argued that the 1787 Northwest Ordinance and Constitution were conservative, almost counter-revolutionary triumphs more than libertarian achievements. Power has withered at the center and devolved to an archipelago of fiefdoms where warlords rule without the burdens of governing. The world suddenly became cold as the grass withered down to nothing. Many Tibetans believe that in ancient times Jiuzhaigou suffered such disasters that its mountains collapsed, trees and flowers withered and inhabitants fled. An instant of heat and he was suddenly standing at the edge of a great expanse of grassland, the grass withered and blackened in places but generally a dry yellow. His thin body is withered and frail, and he shivers in the cold night air. Nemeth was probably being taken to Tardonia, either to be ransomed or more likely to be unpleasantly executed, body charred and features withered by hostile magic. His body withered and shriveled like a prune in the sun, and, as Juktis watched, he turned into dust and was carried away to drift on the winds for all of eternity. His body was wrinkled and withered, slightly bent over and hunched. If you trust me I will instil in you the correct moral values so needed in this age of sexual libertarianism and moral decay, and also aid your withered self esteem. We in New Zealand, you know, used to be able to relax a bit, to be able to think that we would sit comfortably while the rest of the world seared, singed, withered. Too bad it was the Marxist states that all withered away, so that people might enjoy enough freedom to make a little money and enjoy themselves a bit. Carrie withered her, and for a second Stevie was taken aback. The withered trees and dry streams portray the grim situation. In 20 years, if there's some kind of rockumentary and they want to interview my withered old form about how crazy it was back in the '90s, I'd totally be into it. Diplomatic dispatches at the time, written by men who had no reason to lie to their own rulers, reported no hump or withered arm. She looks upon an open space of withered grass and tired, bald turf. Show More Sentences Yet any pre-season optimism which had accrued between the end of last term and the start of this, quickly withered on a blisteringly hot and bitterly disappointing afternoon. While it's not customary to design a room using scents, a blossomy smelling candle next to a withered, old couch can definitely lift the mood of the entire room. I think it's just been too cold at times in the unheated, uninsulated shed, and many of the shoots from the spuds have withered, and other tubers show signs of rot. The wine cellar's been ransacked, the telly's gone missing and the plants are withered and smelling of pee, but apart from that, it's more or less how I left it. A search for last year's helleborines almost drew a blank, until the discovery of just three withered stems that had been completely savaged by slugs. Age may have withered his speed, but his combativeness remains undimmed. In some places even the hardy creosote bushes are withered and dead. In the interest of keeping our local cemetery neat and tidy you are asked not to discard old or withered wreaths, grass cuttings trimmings in the area. He was dressed in only a pair of boxer shorts, his body withered and pale. Stephen's heart had withered up like a flower of the desert that feels the simoom coming from afar. When he lowered the skiff they lay gaping on the boards under a sun that withered them visibly, Suttree gripped his forepockets, searching. Following Egypt's defeat at the Battle of Gura, Egyptian control of the port withered. After harvesting the first flush, clean up all the withered pinheads and debris on the surface of the block. Yet while foreclosures soared and residential construction withered, downtown Greeley has been undergoing a quiet renaissance. All these characteristics are repeated by Shakespeare, who portrays him as having a hunch, a limp and a withered arm. The rose-buds, withered as they were, were still treasured under his cuirass, and nearest to his heart. It was an old, withered man, who had served the Government in the days of the Mutiny as a native officer in a newly raised cavalry regiment. Mandalay. In the name there was a euphony which beckoned to the imagination, yet this was the bitter, withered reality. Densely tufted from a stout taproot, the plant has very short stems with withered, dead leaves at the base. Right now the federal government's badly withered regulatory arms are taking up the case of the megamerger between AOL and Time Warner. Show More Sentences One of them returned looking like a withered waterskin, while the other returned fleshy and fat. He was an aged man, with a withered countenance, down-looking, and low-hearted, probably the outcome of remorse. The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and fruit withered. Partially pollinated flowers may develop fruit that are green and develop normally near the stem end, but are pale yellow and withered at the blossom end. They are best planted in September or October in warm sunny positions, the rhizomes being lifted the following July after the leaves have withered. However, without formal links to any of the political parties it withered, devolution and the establishment of an assembly were put on the political back burner. They should not be disturbed in the autumn, and after the leaves have withered the roots should be protected from heavy rains until growth starts again naturally. Examples from Classical Literature The bunch grass on the diminishing benches at the bends was withered and brown. It was here that Roland got a look from Mr. Burnham that withered him completely. He paused to pick up some yellow jasmine leaves which had withered in the warmth of the May sun and fallen on the doorstep. He had been harping on the city string again and asked me if I intended to live and die a withered beauty on a back-trail ranch. The prairie was covered with cinders, and the grass was burned and withered. At the roadside on either hand there were still and ever tall withered thistles and giant fennel with yellow umbels. The screams of a gier-eagle, startled from the withered pine tree on the summit, answered the scream of the mountain. It feeds from August to May on rock rose, eating the withered and even mouldy leaves. I found him first, a little withered, dried-up old fellow, wrinkled-faced and bleary-eyed and tottery. His brain felt withered, his mind had only one of its many-sighted eyes left open and unscorched. The bottom of the dry swamps was covered with a couch grass, which, like all the other grasses, was partly withered. Eventually they withered and dwindled and were in the end no different from the uninoculated grass. So when he asked me to go with him I cut every tie that bound me to my old life as one snips the withered leaves from a plant. I have blighted and withered the affections of his heart to that extent that he is not sure of me. Gold turned to dirt in an unenchanted atmosphere, food withered away and vanished. These masterpieces of patience, enigmas of gratitude, and withered bouquets gave the lawyer's room the appearance of a toyshop. The withered grass and the bushes were transformed into a forest of icicles. Her pale face framed in a borderless cap was more wrinkled than a withered russet apple. That the path of the ruru deer pink with withered leaves bedewed with blood that has been shed. Calote had caught the withered bough when it fell, and made off with it under the alewife's very nose. Show More Sentences His sensibility is shrunk up and withered by events the most disgustful to his feelings. The laurels of the conqueror of the Turks drooped and withered in Flanders. He notes merely the white blossoms of the redroot peeping through the withered leaves, and the buds of the buckeye. Those plants of whose greenness withered we make herb tea for the sick serve but a humble use, and are most employed by quacks. Round his neck is a chain of pale green jade, and his hands are like withered leaves. Their freshness soon withered, on account of the shallowness of the earth. The clouds of white dust that blew up the street, the gusts of hot wind that withered his vegetable garden, never disturbed his calm. A withered old man accompanied me on the back of the cariole. Numberless women have withered in this unprofitable service to chastity. He was a small man, and a withered one, burned inside and outside by ardent spirits and ardent sun. It was a cranberry, withered and softened by the winter frosts. He was a little man, withered by age, and with a cringing manner. His yellow rags of shirt lay open at the throat, and showed his body to be withered and worn. As he stood, red, rotund, and radiant, before the small, wiry, cool old gentleman, he looked like a prize apple by the side of a withered crab. She had the elfish look of a little withered fairy godmother. These are dingy, screeching elves, their tiny faces seared and withered, their baby laughter cracked and hoarse. The carnations of the painting had withered, but the eyes were still wonderful in their depth and brilliancy of colour. He was a little shriveled wisp of a man, with a withered skin the color of mahogany. I had rather that hand withered and tongue was palsied ere I had struck or miscalled you. Sandy set to work on the withered balsams with his hunting knife. Show More Sentences She was thin, thinner than ever, and stiff as if she had withered. What withered reed of courtesy, what stockfish of gallantry, may this be? The squalid and withered person of this hag might well have obtained for her the character of possessing more than human cunning. If the kernel is withered, no marriage at all is prophesied. It's about time these braying ninnies began acting like leaders, rather than a withered panicked crone leading us to sub-zero extinction. They, being withered and undesirable, do not, under certain circumstances, object to unveiling. She is a withered tree, a worn out old hag, and now I take her with me to send her to the country of the Swazis, whence she came. In the garden withered the rose and the lily, untended and unplucked. Such a withered old face was the face of the pointsman at No. 11 point! Nevertheless, since there was no better to be had, he brought this dry, old withered pomegranate home to the palace. Each of these many chevaliers, if we may believe reports, was, like the Chevalier of Alencon, an old gentleman, tall, thin, withered, and moneyless. The tender shoots and the expanding flowers are nipped and withered, and of a vine that yearned to stretch its tendrils round the world there is left but a sapless stump. The fragrance of her rich and delightful character still lingered about the place where she had lived, as a dried rosebud scents the drawer where it has withered and perished. He was short, cadaverous, and withered, with his head sunk sideways between his shoulders and the breath issuing in visible smoke from his mouth as if he were on fire within. He jumped from the cart, and having told the groom to take the mare home, made his way towards his guest through the withered bracken and rough undergrowth. Nothing is left but the stalk, white and withered as are the bones of men. He could have sworn it once belonged to an Englishman, and to an Englishman of long before by token of the heavy gold circlets still threaded in the withered ear-lobes. He was sitting on the seat the old prince used to like to sit on, and beside him strips of bast were hanging on the broken and withered branch of a magnolia. An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them. The Time Traveller paused, put his hand into his pocket, and silently placed two withered flowers, not unlike very large white mallows, upon the little table. Show More Sentences And now, in joyless age, she felt that some withered partner should request her hand, and all unite, in a dance of death, to the music of the funeral bell. Summerlee, the veteran Professor of Comparative Anatomy, rose among the audience, a tall, thin, bitter man, with the withered aspect of a theologian. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of withered? Words that rhyme with withered What is the adverb for withered? What is the adjective for withered? What is the noun for withered? Translations for withered Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words wither with envy with enthusiasm with ease withe with due respect withering witheringly witherite withers Withers Witherspoon 8-letter Words Starting With w wi wit with withe wither withere