How To Use Shriveled In A Sentence

When alive, the spiders kept on the gaster-only diet initially grew but then shriveled, while those eating the head, legs and thoraces thrived, with some tripling their weight. Why Spiders Always Devour Ants Head First | Impact Lab
The crunch leaves of autumn had shrivelled and the sun was a lazy, dusky peach colour.
And behold, he shrivelled and withered under their eyes, and became a small handful of grey dust and glass powder.
It spends most of its life buried deep in the soil in a shriveled, torpid state.
Parlez-vous français, mesdemoiselles!" cried madame, and we filed out into the dusty street, at the corner of which sat another of our visible tokens of the coming of the season of flowers; a dirty, shriveled old Irishwoman, full of benedictions and beggary, who, all through the summer, sold "posies" to the passers-by. Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls

The leaves die, of course, and in their shriveled state present no threat when it snows.
You know, those shriveled brown vegetables down in the vegetable crisper?
With the dried tail of a herring sticking out of their saffron-coloured, shrivelled chops, Lord! how they gaped when I passed by, hurriedly, like A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition
But as she walked between the huge pylons of the temple, Miri's soul shrivelled inside her.
She looked even more shriveled now, like a kernel of some life-form waiting to fill out its red cocoon. Babies
Her whole face shriveled up into a pained, dried-apple doll expression.
Sitting in the wheelchair is a young woman with a pretty face and two shriveled legs.
Sitting in the wheelchair is a young woman with a pretty face and two shriveled legs.
In good years, the warmth of the sun as it rises kills off the fungus, leaving the grapes shrivelled and unsightly, but tasting delicious: full of the sugar and glycerine which was left behind.
Out in the sticks last weekend, the sheep looked like shrivelled prunes on legs.
The leaves shrivelled in the sun.
His eyes were hollow, bleared, and gummy; his face was shrivelled into a thousand wrinkles, his gums were destitute of teeth, his nose sharp and drooping, his chin peaked and prominent, so that, when he mumped or spoke, they approached one another like a pair of nutcrackers: he supported himself on an ivory-headed cane and his whole figure was The Adventures of Roderick Random
Her lips were shrivelled and pale, her skin a ghastly white.
A hunched, shriveled woman tries to push a bottle into a recycling bin.
Brown and shriveled canes stand out like sore thumbs.
The flying woman was gone, the vision incorporating her shrivelled. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
In line with the motive to instruct, there are diseased organs, a liver shrivelled from alcohol abuse, lungs disfigured by cigarette tar, the misshapen brain of an Alzheimer's sufferer.
Severely infected seeds appear shriveled, cracked, and elongated, and may be covered with a white, moldy growth.
As firms' share of total deposits has ballooned, so Sberbank's relative power has shrivelled.
Nut kernels that are poorly filled are often hollow, shrunken, shriveled, and chaffy. Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948
Her eyeballs had shriveled further, and the sockets were oozing a thick pus. DO NO HARM
The fruit dried and shriveled
It wasn't that she lacked strength; a more precise description would be that her independent nature had wasted away and shriveled up beneath the careful and diligent ministrations of her father.
But first I noticed that grandpa always kind of shriveled when Uncle Mitch Miller
She was left holding a jelly baby of shrivelled skin, her fingers glued together, webbed by a sticky emission.
Monday night the trend continued and I was cooked for again, after we had lounged about in the Turkish baths for a good long while, until we were so shrivelled up we looked like dead people.
In short, oil has shriveled the promise and stained the soul of an entire country, empowering autocrats who disdain human rights and are oblivious to the misery of its people. Richard North Patterson discusses Eclipse
He was another personal favourite whose friendship shrivelled after a single unguarded remark.
The resultant plants were nothing more than shriveled clumps.
On the eve of the 1984 strike, however, the number of deep coal miners in Scotland had dwindled away to barely 14,000-a figure which itself shrivelled to less than 3,000 in the hard years after the conflict.
Pilotshark, Limpballs has a latin trannie hooker on his tootsie roll, pathetically shriveled as it is. Think Progress » Extreme Right Wing Of GOP Leads Health Reform Repeal Effort, Pledges To Repeal ‘The Whole Thing’
A sustained drought has shriveled Lake Powell in the Southwest to expose a red-rock wonderland drowned decades ago.
Would it be another pathetic attempt by a local conglomerate to create yet another monument to French gastronomy by putting sad shriveled up escargots on the menu?
All the build up of delight shrivelled and stripped Jay to lonely self-scourging.
Both diseases result in lightweight, shriveled kernels that may be moldy.
In the morning when I arose, I found my hoofes shriveled together with cold, and unable to passe upon the sharpe ice, and frosty mire, neither could I fill my belly with meate, as I accustomed to doe, for my master and I supped together, and had both one fare: howbeit it was very slender since as wee had nothing else saving old and unsavoury sallets which were suffered to grow for seed, like long broomes, and that had lost all their sweet sappe and juice. The Golden Asse
The shriveled black olives are then vacuumed up with machines that look like street cleaners.
A pair of bright eyes, shaded by bushy white brows, glittered in his brown face -- seamed and wrinkled like the bark of a gnarled oaklike gay flowers amid withered leaves, forming a strange contrast to his lean, bowed, and shrivelled form. Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
Avoid very shriveled dates, or dates with sugar crystals on the skin.
The stalks that remain support runty, shriveled buds.
In most cases, her shame would be all but shriveled up by now.
Elchies, a shrivelled atomy with a hirpling walk, leaning heavily upon a rattan, both with the sinister black tri-corne hats in their hands, and flanked by a company of musketeers. Doom Castle
As the drought shriveled the acres of sideoats grama and bluestem grass on his property, Epperson, 57, was forced to sell off all but 90 of his 400 cows and 800 of his 3,000 goats. Drought puts cattle ranchers at a crossroads
Her poor shriveled body cells were kept alive artifically.
He found that if he surgically removed the testicles of his dogs—and thereby depleted the dogs of the hormone testosterone—the prostate gland involuted and shriveled and the fluid secretion dried up precipitously. The Emperor of All Maladies
The householder, a shrivelled, goitrous humpback, received me kindly, removed his pot of cabbage from the fire to brew tea for his uninvited guest, and showed great gratitude (to such an extent that he nearly fell into the fire as he moved to push the children forward towards me) when Across China on Foot
The creature's long, notched sword plied air with a swift surety that Conan took diligent care to avoid; and yet the vacancies of the shriveled leathern bindings at the strange warrior's elbows and ankles did not appear to contain any form, not even bones. Conan The Warlord
They leaned steeper, into a gale that shrivelled eyes that streamed with freezing tears. COUP D'ETAT
Hot, dry summers have thawed permafrost layers and shriveled berry crops.
And there it was, all shrivelled up, looking at me.
Even conventional farmers in California, beset by the heat wave there, are learning how fragile those presumptions can be, as they complain of wine grapes shriveled into raisins.
And take that Hal Holbrook-looking, shriveled up, wrinkled hosebag bigot Geraldine Ferraro with you. Clinton: 'This is nowhere near over'
Something in her that had, at first, revolted in anger and frustration at her own helplessness, now shrivelled and atrophied.
The resultant plants were nothing more than shriveled clumps.
The grass upon which he had been laying shriveled up, black and as delicate as stalks of ash.
The shriveled black olives are then vacuumed up with machines that look like street cleaners.
It spends most of its life buried deep in the soil in a shriveled, torpid state.
Indeed I was greeted in Italian by a shrivelled old lady in a white habit.
So having secured the barrico (and with no small to-do) I hove it ashore and got myself after it, and so came mighty despondent where sat Sir Richard as one deep in thought, his gaze on the sea, his shrivelled hand upon the head of the dog Pluto crouched beside him. Martin Conisby's Vengeance
I lost myself in something like nirvana, grew so subject to the idea of vastness in geological time that all human desires and purposes shrivelled to ridiculous unimportance. Born in Exile
I see that I am standing beside an iron seat of poor design in that grey and gawky waste of asphalte — Trafalgar Square, and the botanist, with perplexity in his face, stares from me to a poor, shrivelled, dirt-lined old woman — my God! what a neglected thing she is! — who proffers a box of matches .... A Modern Utopia
The stalks that remain support runty, shriveled buds.
Somehow, somewhere between Orchard Road, Raffles City and Chinatown markets my sense of financial responsibility lost its oxygen supply, shrivelled up and died discreetly.
His voice broke piteously, but Bahzell only gazed down with flinty eyes, and something inside the landlord shriveled under their dreadful promise.
Frowning direfully, she viciously decapitated another shriveled set of blooms. The Ideal Bride
The lack of rain has shrivelled the crops.
Buy soft fruit with wrinkled and shriveled skin.
our shriveled receipts during the storm
As the drought shriveled the acres of sideoats grama and bluestem grass on his property, Epperson, 57, was forced to sell off all but 90 of his 400 cows and 800 of his 3,000 goats. Drought puts cattle ranchers at a crossroads
Both diseases result in lightweight, shriveled kernels that may be moldy.
A shrivelled woman, Yasmin, spoke for them.
Eleven years of age, she had at last begun to grow in earnest: her legs were as of old mere spindleshanks, but nearly twice as long; and her fat little body, perched above them, made one think of a shrivelled-up old man who has run all to paunch. The Getting of Wisdom
After birth, the cord was cut, and where it was attached to your body it shrivelled up and formed a scar known as your belly button.
They squirmed, shrivelled and after a brief struggle, gave up the ghost.
Avoid very shriveled dates, or dates with sugar crystals on the skin.
The kids rent a rain forest cocoa tree as an Earth Day present for Ms. Frizzle. But when the harvest arrives, there's only one shriveled cocoa bean! Ms.
In October, when the grapes have shriveled to raisins, Kister sends them off to a packer for processing and marketing.
The leaves die, of course, and in their shriveled state present no threat when it snows.
His hair was wild and brown, his skin shriveled from untold hours in the sun. ALL I DID WAS LOOK • by David Dalglish
My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me
I hop into a brightly painted chicken bus called Dorita next to a tiny, shrivelled woman with a nut-brown walnut face, and set off back to Antigua.
Soak the roots in a bucket of water for a couple of hours before planting if they are dry or if the stems seem shrivelled, then trim any damaged roots and cut back very long ones to about 30 cm.
It was as if her past had been sprayed with defoliant, withering before her eyes to a shrivelled meaningless husk. THE LAST TEMPTATION
When alive, the spiders kept on the gaster-only diet initially grew but then shriveled, while those eating the head, legs and thoraces thrived, with some tripling their weight. Why Spiders Always Devour Ants Head First | Impact Lab
Stand shrivelled dahlia tubers in warm water overnight to revive them.
The animal contracts, loses water, and takes on a shriveled, wrinkled appearance.
A hunched, shriveled woman tries to push a bottle into a recycling bin.
In the cage on his left lived a sycophantish, shrivelled, grey monkey from India who salaamed for tidbits of food; on his right were a troup of patchy buffoons who swung and tumbled about their cage to attract attention. The Complete Stories
In the third quarter, when the financing company was hard hit by the freeze in credit markets, it paid executives $28 million in what it called retention payments to make up for the shriveled value of their long-term incentive plans. TARP Puts the Brakes on GMAC Executives' Pay
Buy soft fruit with wrinkled and shriveled skin.
And behold, he shrivelled and withered under their eyes, and became a small handful of grey dust and glass powder.
Although their similarities pass through the mansion and the national committee chairs, Jim Gilmore is a sour little rooster with shriveled political skills. Waldo Jaquith - Republicans in congressional delegation bail on meeting with Kaine.
The brief glimpse of family lives during the Easter holidays at Dinard had shrivelled into a dream.
‘You're not going any where,’ she thundered as loudly as a shrivelled up old woman in a wheelchair could, making me stop dead in my tracks.
Some of the leaves turned brown and shriveled up.
By the time the group had finished swimming, Casey's digits looked like shrivelled prunes and her skin had turned a slight tinge of white.
he looked shriveled and ill
Or other bands kind of shriveled up and died after the internet made bands 'release content+memes more frequently' and some bands were unable to respond. Artrocker -
The bulbs should not be shriveled, brownish, or dried out.
And, after what feels like a somewhat dutiful slog through Juvenal, Swift, and Pope, you would expect Denby at least to be aware of the limitations imposed by the shriveled range of cultural reference within which the contemporary media "ironist" must operate. Undefined
The kids rent a rain forest cocoa tree as an Earth Day present for Ms. Frizzle. But when the harvest arrives, there's only one shriveled cocoa bean! Ms.
Newspaper rotogravure ushered in the photojournalism age in the 1890s; movies soon followed; and finally television, and typographic language shriveled before each new wave. Mark Twain
After one year, tourism is non-existent, foreign investment in high tech has shriveled up, and the country faces an uncertain future.
He was crouched in a wheelchair, a shriveled, whitened remnant of the father I had known.
Genevieve saw the little by-play, and as Ponta's eyes slowly swept round the circle of their hate and met hers, she, too, shrivelled and shrank back. Chapter 4
Indeed I was greeted in Italian by a shrivelled old lady in a white habit.
He held her close to him, though she shrivelled from his embrace. THE LAST RAVEN
If you look at the above picture and then the picture below you can see how the ear has kind of shrivelled a little bit and has a weird shape about it. Planet Judo
She could not refuse the protection he offered in a person of her own sex; and now, flushing with the thought of where they were together alone, feminine modesty shrivelled at the idea of entreating a man to bear her off, though feminine desperation urged to it. The Tragic Comedians — Volume 2
The shriveled black olives are then vacuumed up with machines that look like street cleaners.
Victims can be left with disfigured or shrivelled limbs.
The word that grabs is "shrivelled" – sums it all up really. A shrivelled campaign
I guess I felt that my mind was shriveled up with idle chatter and shallow talk.
With this the refractory gouvernante began in great hurry to adjust her tartan mantle for going abroad, by pulling it so forwards as to conceal the white linen cap, the edges of which bordered her shrivelled but still fresh and healthful countenance. The Fair Maid of Perth
The heat shrivelled up the grass.
Severely infected seeds appear shriveled, cracked, and elongated, and may be covered with a white, moldy growth.
He treated the bodies with a preservative mixture of peanut oil and resin; and, although the remains still shriveled like raisins, they retained their human features.
The heat shrivelled up the grass.
Kane toiled by day and by night, and between his stints he talked to the shriveled, mummied head of Goru, whose eyes, strangely enough, did not change in the blaze of the sun or the haunt of the moon, but retained their lifelike expression. Wings in the Night
Variations in vineyard temperatures deliver flavours ranging from apples to tinned pineapple or, in extreme circumstances, to sickly shrivelled sultanas.
For even in her white terai and belted suit of white linen she was a vision appropriate only to the far-off world that this man had left behind him at the call of duty -- a world of delicate living and subtle sensations, of frail flesh in luxurious settings, of sophistication that would have shrunk from every crudity, and exquisiteness that would have shriveled at the touch of hardship. Sacrifice
It seems unintuitive to buy passion fruit with shrivelled skin, but it's only smooth when young and underripe. Times, Sunday Times
Never mind, the hash will not die, although it does look kind of shrivelled right now! Run 563 - Rum Till I Die
A shrivelled woman, Yasmin, spoke for them.
The incipient sapling shrivelled and withered, but her knowledge of gardening techniques improved. AT THE STROKE OF TWELVE
Even the mosslike ground cover over which they had spread their blanket was black and shriveled. Flinx's Folly
They are dry and stiff, with the shriveled remnants of once green leaves hanging dejectedly from their limbs.
The signore is a gentleman, and the last, shrivelled representative of his race. Twilight in Italy
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.
They are dry and stiff, with the shriveled remnants of once green leaves hanging dejectedly from their limbs.
Her poor shriveled body cells were kept alive artifically.
The animal contracts, loses water, and takes on a shriveled, wrinkled appearance.
The merged company has been unprofitable every year, and by 2008 its market capitalization had shriveled to approximately $6 billion, from a premerger level of $36 billion. Alcatel May Sell Phone Unit
Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper will today accuse the coalition of having a "shrivelled Evening Standard - Home
And by the end of his life this sort of angry, violent, frightened and shriveled man. 'Heaven Bears' Author Finds Beauty In 'The Air'
Victims can be left with disfigured or shrivelled limbs.
They were shriveled like prunes after the long hours of immersion. INCA GOLD
The merged company has lost money every year, and by 2008 its market capitalization had shriveled to about $6 billion, from a premerger level of $36 billion. Alcatel-Lucent Gets $1.5 Billion Offer for Genesys
The rue Soly was like an illness to him; the very word shrivelled his heart. The Thirteen
He -- -- "The last word shrivelled on her lips, which puckered into a confused smile at the warning frown of her brother. Stories of a western town
It spends most of its life buried deep in the soil in a shriveled, torpid state.
shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings
At eight - thirty the eggs were shriveled and the toast was like stone.
Jillian felt the covers being ripped off of her and she shriveled up due to the loss of warmth.
They lie together, one resting gently on the arm of the other, their shrivelled dark brown limbs entangled.
The lack of rain has shrivelled the crops.
He sees the crops withered through drought and devoured by pests on a shrivelled land struggling to escape the paralysis of famine.
It sat in my palm, a shrivelled brain from some small animal. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
It is needless to say, after entering so largely into a description of Lady Gorgon, that her husband was a little shrivelled wizen-faced creature, eight inches shorter than her The Bedford-Row Conspiracy
The bully kind of shriveled up when an ex-NFL football player bought the bar across from his. A Chicken Is Not Pillage
In quality, it cannot be considered equal to some of the shrivelled-kernelled, sweet descriptions, but will prove acceptable to those to whom the peculiar, sugary character of these may be objectionable. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
the old woman's shriveled skin
Like the hot wind, it caressed insinuatingly, letting her know it could dry her to a shrivelled twist of leather if it liked. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
A small, shriveled head poked itself out from the miniature doorway and peered at her.
Glossal form and glossal condition, those who include a tongue is old crackle of thorn of tender, awn, bilge, shrivelled, the soft, hard, battle with the tongue, Wei, crooked, easy, shrink, spit lane.
Lake Mead, already shriveled to 60 percent of maximum capacity in 2004 it fell to its lowest level in four decades, was doomed to shrink further: An average 9.0 million acre-feet a year came in, but demand in the lower basin and apportionments to Mexico subtracted 9.5 million, and another 800,000 acre-feet were lost to evaporation. Colossus
Especially where scab is evident in the field, the combine should be set for maximum cleaning, with higher blower speeds to remove the small shriveled diseased kernels.
The faint hope he had offered shrivelled and died in the heat of the hungry, leaping flames.
Her formerly powerful and upright frame is bent and lean; her hair waves in wild, white locks about her shrivelled face; all the rude majesty of her form has departed; there is nothing to show that it is still Goisvintha haunting the scene of her crime but the savage expression debasing her countenance and betraying the evil heart within, unsubdued as ever in its yearning for destruction and revenge. Antonina
The Cathedral is occupied 24/7 by pious parched and shriveled Indian women, barefoot and wrapped in threadbare Indian cloths, crawling the length of the nave on their knees, pleading with the larger than life suffering gesso Jesus hanging above the baroque red velvet elegance of the raised altar platform. San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas
His tomb still houses his solid gold sarcophagus & his mummy which is kind of shriveled up TravelPod.com Recent Updates
In a flash of light, Aidan shriveled to a wizened old man of about 3 feet tall.
In fact, in Junior High School, I was a tiny little shriveled mess of prepubescence. First Crush
The marble floor may have lost its gleam and the shop itself shrivelled in size, but seated behind his corner desk here is Jitender Nath, who knows - and perhaps rightly - that some things will never change.
But inside the vial was a shriveled-looking thing I thought resembled a pickled plum, though it was brownish rather than purple. Memoirs of a Geisha
The veno~n in his expression shrivelled the saliva in my mouth. Penalty
The perky moment shrivelled as Mr Graham glared at him.
Out in the sticks last weekend, the sheep looked like shrivelled prunes on legs.
Out in the sticks last weekend, the sheep looked like shrivelled prunes on legs.
Brown and shriveled canes stand out like sore thumbs.
His body is preserved below the altar, dressed in his pontifical robes, sparkling with diamonds -- the head reposing on a richly gilded cushion; the face, dead and shrivelled, which is the only part exposed, presents a sad contrast to all this splendour. Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta
as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled
He sees the crops withered through drought and devoured by pests on a shrivelled land struggling to escape the paralysis of famine.
He sees the crops withered through drought and devoured by pests on a shrivelled land struggling to escape the paralysis of famine.
Ten to one, he is old, and has all the shrivelled, high-dried appearance of the most far-gone and confirmed bachelorism. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444 Volume 18, New Series, July 3, 1852
Glossal form and glossal condition, those who include a tongue is old crackle of thorn of tender, awn, bilge, shrivelled, the soft, hard, battle with the tongue, Wei, crooked, easy, shrink, spit lane.
But as she walked between the huge pylons of the temple, Miri's soul shrivelled inside her.
For what princely traveller sojourning here incognito, could they be intended, those glaucous plums, luminous and spherical as was at that moment the circumfluent sea, transparent grapes clustering on a shrivelled stick, like a fine day in autumn, pears of a heavenly ultramarine? Within a Budding Grove
The flesh of his face looked as if it had shrivelled up, then been stretched and stretched to barely cover his bony features.
They lie together, one resting gently on the arm of the other, their shrivelled dark brown limbs entangled.

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