How To Use Wilting In A Sentence

Tossed in a hot pan for a scant five minutes, the sprouts soften and give up their starchiness, wilting into a warm slaw scented with white wine and citrus.
Like their plant-sucking cousins, whiteflies pierce leaf tissues causing noticeable wilting, chlorosis, loss of leaves and/or stunted growth.
I'd found a late patch of charlock near the stream, leaves wilting and brown around the edges, and had brought back a handful in my pocket, along with a few juniper berries picked during a stop earlier in the day. Dragonfly in Amber
The child wasn't wilting in an alien environment.
Yet the days of wilting petals could soon be over, if gene science has anything to do with it. Times, Sunday Times

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Each petal was streaked with brown, wilting from the cold.
My opponent was wilting
He pounded the spine of one devourer, crushing it and wilting the deadly tails. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
The flowers are wilting for lack of water.
In a vase near the window there was a single poinsettia now on the point of wilting. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
We were wilting under the burning sun.
The defeat of their meeting banker Moscow Flyer in the Queen Mother Champion Chase meant the shamrocks were wilting towards the end of the second day of the annual three-day meeting.
It had been another hot, sunny morning and I was wilting.
If your plant is wilting, the sensors will text your mobile and warn you to add more fertiliser. The Sun
It was sweltering hot, and she looked like she was wilting.
Gone was the haughty princess, and in her place stood a fragile girl wilting at his harsh words.
In contrast, petal wilting was either ethylene sensitive or insensitive, and this was also generally consistent within families or subfamilies.
The two straighten, then bow, then sit up, ocular level again, she pounces, wilting him at the levator. Kissing Cobras
If your plant is wilting, the sensors will text your mobile and warn you to add more fertiliser. The Sun
Rhododendrons and some azaleas, mountain laurels, leucothoes and Japanese pieris might show signs of wilting, and you might even experience a loss of some shrubs as the season progresses. Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
The ground should be "firmed" around them just as strongly, and they should be so well watched as to guard against the slightest wilting from heat and drought. Success with Small Fruits
Wilting shrubs spring back to life and luxuriant grass begins to sprout in the open spaces, even as flower buds burst into blossoms of loveliness.
He wondered how long he would have to continue playing gallant knight to these insipid, wilting females.
With business and earnings under intense pressure, financial industries' confidence was already wilting before the upheavals of the past few weeks. Times, Sunday Times
Which, unfortunately, the wilting dotards are too frightened to do themselves.
What with chasing up health care, and taking delivery of 200 gallons of heating oil, and tackling a stream of official forms and stuff, I was wilting more than just a little by the end of the afternoon.
Another, thing that causes leaves to brown off the outer edges is prolonged periods of wilting in the hot sun, or in very cloggy soils.
It was time then for more wandering; there was a couple of dance stages and some precictable stalls but by now I was wilting and craving a cool drink.
He told of the wilting heat, the fulgent landscape, the people. Ain't Comin' Back
Emma looks ready to kill - I'm surprised Jeremy isn't wilting under the glare she's giving him.
I really thought that a team of top Central officials and water experts would be scurrying about in the two States, visiting the areas where the crop was wilting and where the impounded water was standing.
For the needs of the wilting lone ranger may be varied. Times, Sunday Times
Currently more than a third of the maize crop in the US is stricken by drought and soya bean and wheat crops are also wilting. Times, Sunday Times
But the low humidity can make you feel like you're wilting. The Sun
These trees were overflooded for some weeks and after that the soil was oversaturated with water, resulting in wilting and decline. More on Positive and Negative Responders « Climate Audit
These end up being unused and wilting or getting put into the same old vegan, if anyone wants the recipe minestrone which is good, I’ve made it so often…. Local v. Organic: Round 1 | Mind on Fire
There are already clear early warning signals of the toll on demand from wilting confidence and squeezed spending power. Times, Sunday Times
To assess the extent of the damage, you'll need to look beyond frozen or wilting leaves to determine whether the growing point was killed.
There are already clear early warning signals of the toll on demand from wilting confidence and squeezed spending power. Times, Sunday Times
Yet the days of wilting petals could soon be over, if gene science has anything to do with it. Times, Sunday Times
Look for healthy plants having dark green leaves with no browning or wilting, and also choose those that appear rootbound.
The high-pitched cries of a hawker selling beans on the street floated in through the window, further away, cars were nosing against one another in long, exhausted petrol lines, lecturers were gathering to announce another strike, pensioners were raising wilting placards demanding their pensions, and Aunty Uju, freshly graduated from Ibadan, had a job at the military hospital in Victoria Island. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Miracle
The passing away of Basu - India's longest-serving chief minister whose unbroken 23-year-old rule of a Left Front coalition in West Bengal state is a history in itself - is seen as a blow to the communist movement in India, wilting under fragile unity, political "foolhardiness" and lack of pragmatic icons. INTER PRESS SERVICE
Philip could see David wilting as the conflicting desires to help his sister and to look for peace came against each other.
For their part, China's leaders want to prove to their people that they aren't wilting under Western pressure.
My fiancé is wilting under the pressure of having to perform on demand. Times, Sunday Times
On viburnums, pieris and camellia, symptoms are very similar, the disease causing wilting and ultimately death.
There are already clear early warning signals of the toll on demand from wilting confidence and squeezed spending power. Times, Sunday Times
Two wilting sides then slugged it out toe-to-toe in the extra 30 minutes before Town finally delivered the knock-out blow.
We just have to pick and choose, hoping to get some meaty bits in a sea of wilting lettuce, processed coleslaw and mass produced pavlova.
Researchers found that similar-sized Salsola kali plants took twice as long to reach the wilting point on saline compared to nonsaline medium.
The half-time whistle sounded and traditional sliced oranges were brought round on trays for fans wilting from the sticky heat.
Navigating the toy aisle has been a wilting affair.
Western Oregon had been very low on rainfall that year, and even the plants in our backyard garden were wilting.
Up close he smelt all sweet and sickly, like a wilting honeysuckle tendril. BEHINDLINGS
They will need a relatively moist atmosphere to stop them wilting, but not so moist that they go mouldy. Times, Sunday Times
He's up on a ladder, scraping and puttying and wilting from the heat and doing all he can humanly do to accommodate my urgent 'nesting' demands. Hormones: a shitstorm.
My fiancé is wilting under the pressure of having to perform on demand. Times, Sunday Times
The passengers were visibly wilting with the heat and movement of the bus.
This disease reduces raspberry yields by wilting, stunting, and eventually killing the fruiting cane or the entire plant.
With business and earnings under intense pressure, financial industries' confidence was already wilting before the upheavals of the past few weeks. Times, Sunday Times
Their wilting cheesecakes had been delivered to the table along with their drinks.
Wilting with shame, he bleats, ‘I have no hand in all this… all this that has happened.’
Watch your plants and if you see leaves wilting, don't wait until they discolor and die, but find out the cause.
It continued with a thick steak of char-grilled tuna, sitting on a warm, waxy potato and anchovy salad, the heat of the fish wilting some pert baby spinach.
If you see leaf wilting or hard, caked soil, water the trees well and slowly enough to allow the water to soak in.
Cerato-ulmin, a wilting toxin of Ceratocystis ulmi: development of antiserum against the toxin Xml's Blinklist.com
But thankfully most of the girls at the club were not wilting wallflowers.
By half-time, the team was wilting under the pressure.
Insufficient removal of these air embolisms may result in serious water stress which may lead to early leaf wilting as previously shown in chrysanthemum cut flowers.
Petal wilting has been found to be ethylene-sensitive or insensitive, and these two categories were consistent within families or subfamilies.
Down the road around Orange, orchardists have seen their industry wilting before their eyes.

How To Use Wilting In A Sentence

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