withered

How To Use withered In A Sentence

• How has it managed to do all that - when other, more capitalized businesses have withered away?
• He scowled at Zilla, whose withered lips were again writhing into speech, and compelled her to silence. The White Man's Way
• On the path a few solitary scraps of withered white and blue police tape were a solemn reminder of the crime scene.
• And behold, he shrivelled and withered under their eyes, and became a small handful of grey dust and glass powder.
• With withered leaves they weave their boats and smilingly float them on the vast deep.
• They grow flowers, but the male anthers are stunted or withered: Seed but no pollen is produced.
• A slow descent into a long and murky winter; on my doorstep, the colourful leaves on the trees withered and fell, and there was no spring.
• Even at his preparatory school, where he was known as a swot of the first water, he had displayed an unhealthy infatuation for that tongue; he loved its cold, lapidary construction; and while other boys played football or cricket, this withered little fellow used to lark about with a note-book, all by himself, torturing sensible South Wind
• Were it not for that jar or _tinaja_ of _aguardiente_ which the old man keeps so snugly in the corner of his burrow, he would have withered up long ago, like the mummies of the Great Saint Bernard. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860
• Perhaps he had never had any talent for it; perhaps it had withered away, unnourished. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN