How To Use Withering In A Sentence

She sat down in her chair looking furious and just gave me a sneer and a withering look.
‘We take credit cards,’ chirped the tall curly brunette - the weaker of the two - who was quickly silenced by a withering glance.
By three, we're swithering about moving to the catchment area of the best state primary.
The film plays like a classical symphony on the withering of age and the resilience of a couple's love under growing strain. Times, Sunday Times
Gail agreed with the remainder of the fashion faux pas top ten, saving her most withering comments for shell suits and puffballs.

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Digitalis from the foxglove plants used by an old woman in Shropshire, England was analyzed and promoted for heart disease by Dr. William Withering in 1785 and was still widely used in herbal form until the 1950's.
Erin, the mousiest of the bridesmaids, elbowed Gladys when she noticed, only to find herself subtly rebuked with a withering glare from Cheryl, whose short brown hair and severe temperament remained unchanged for the happy occasion. Crossed
Witnesses who cooperate with tabloids in return for money often find themselves subjected to withering criticism if they are called into court.
Close by the stir of the great city, with all its fret and chafe and storm of life, in the desolate garden of that sombre house, and under the withering eyes of relentless Crime, revived the Arcady of old, -- the scene vocal to the reeds of idyllist and shepherd; and in the midst of the iron Tragedy, harmlessly and unconsciously arose the strain of the Pastoral Music. Lucretia — Complete
By the 1590s the old church was withering away as former office-holders died, while the presbyteries were taking a more consistent place in church administration.
French target Bobo Balde of Toulouse is still swithering over coming to Celtic.
You should have seen the withering look he shot them. Times, Sunday Times
Incidentally, I've become accustomed to being regarded with withering nonplussitude, so the seductive smile of the woman with the "celebutard" sunglasses and the giant soda was a pleasant surprise: Grappling With Change: A Farewell to Summer and a Return to Arms
As a side note, Michael Sorkin later wrote a withering review of the The Charlottesville Tapes that took the form of a short play, with all dialog rendered in perfectly rhyming couplets.
The grain-withering fungus called fusarium head blight has cost state farmers billions of dollars in past years. Undefined
He knew that he was dicing with Death, but that was the very essence of his ideal; and he knew that if Death won the throw, his ideal was crowned and consummated, for ever safe from the withering touch of time, or accidental soilure. Poems
He is swithering about possibly riding Blowing Wind, however, as he is consistent and has been placed twice in the past two years.
Taking on Garvey's mantle, Marley turned increasingly to Africa as his fame grew, addressing apartheid with the same withering scorn as American artists like Stevie Wonder and Gil Scott Heron.
Anna Wintour wouldn't turn me to dust with a single withering glance if I mispronounced the word charmeuse. Mastering the Ceremonies
Equally suggestive is her interpretation of Fanon's withering attack upon the postcolonial national bourgeoisie.
The friends draw the obvious corollary: if you are not flourishing but withering, you must be doing something wrong. READING THE BIBLE AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally.
He didn't bother noticing the unweeded garden or the untilled soil or the already withering and thirsty crops that surrounded the white one-story house. When the Spring Dies
He said that Lizzie had been drunk at the time and I saw her shoot him a withering glance.
Hanley Black's wife, a stout-in-the-middle matron of 45, thinks "It's positively indecent" while her husband "surveyed his wife's criminal shapelessness and voluminousness of ante-diluvian, New England swimming dress with a withering, contemplative eye" and tells her in a sentence never uttered by a human before or since, "You appear as a creature shameful, under a grotesqueness of apparel striving to hide some secret awfulness. “It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.”
She gave me a withering look of utter contempt and proceeded to lecture me at length about the finer nuances of Mother's Day.
Sadly, if it continues, that is what is threatening to become of the great Liberal Party tradition: a cold-hearted butcher to the withering slab of the Australian body, and the public get sausages for policy from the sweepings off the floor.
The lady at the neighbouring table, with wrinkled skin, a beaky nose and bulging eyes, swathed in netted black, cast her withering glance.
they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire
On the day she saw the GP, Del Veneziano was still swithering.
We were all thin, and we were all brown from the withering sun of outdoor labor rather than oiled afternoons on the beach. MOON PASSAGE
The pressure not to split the team into warring camps during such a season was withering, and it fell on both of them.
“Listen, O my brother, to what my sire told me yesternight of the calamity which hath betided him in the withering of his crops before their time, by reason of the rarity of rain and the sore sorrow that is fallen on this city.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
But in herb-bennet and avens each nut has a single long awn, crooked near the middle with a very peculiar S-shaped joint, which effectually catches on to the wool or hair, but drops at the elbow after a short period of withering. Science in Arcady
As democracy and freedom continue to melt away beneath the withering heat of state-corporate power, it becomes ever more difficult to tell the truth.
Withering first settled into medical practice in Stafford, working as a physician in the county infirmary.
The bull-necked doorman fixed me with a withering look and said: ‘You're not on me list mate.’
The boozy ways of the newsdesk were withering away anyway. Times, Sunday Times
As he turned to leave under the withering gaze of his disappointed superiors, it was discovered that he had not received the decryption code that accompanied the exercise.
On many trees this autumn, the leaves are just withering away without much brilliance of colour. Times, Sunday Times
Her sultry good looks, airy insouciance and withering scorn would have made me her instant slave.
GCSE flunker Angelique delivers her withering verdict on new politics teacher Alastair Campbell Jamie's Dream School, 9pm, Wed, Channel 4. From Alastair Campbell to Childish Gambino, this week's winners and losers
By 1785 Withering’s infusion now called digitalis was in general use. American Connections
I have been thinking that the apparent opening at the chalaza end must have been withering or perhaps gnawing by some very minute insects, as the ovarium is open at the upper end. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
But has all this emphasis on cognitive thinking led to a withering of our instincts, our powers of intuition? Times, Sunday Times
Thankfully, though, this is not another in the long line of acclaimed women jockeys withering on the vine of prejudice. Times, Sunday Times
Crops were withering, cattle were dying, and the river that once sculpted canyons was a trickle.
And the evidence abounds: thick truncated trunks still pushing out new sprigs, charred stumps, and entire trees withering on the roadside.
The cars are only a simulacra on the road, shaking neon outside Harvey Nichols on one side and the stonewashed government house behind withering trees on Ice Street. Home/Skateboard/Smoke
The evil alignment of Saturn and Neptune in Canopus, the Dog star, portends a withering attack of werewolf spirits looking for your dog to inhabit. Archive 2007-04-01
Kelly was a conservative columnist known for withering criticisms of former president Bill Clinton and his vice president Al Gore, and also worked for the New Republic and Atlantic Monthly magazines.
For those who see her withering her opponents with television soundbites, it comes as a surprise to find her sense of humour always bubbling close to the surface.
Pan American takes the pound cake for minimalism, and has in the past proven perfect music for driving through desolate landscapes beneath withering heat, or traversing the domain of half-asleepness.
Even before the tourists jetted out from Blighty former Australian bowling demon Dennis Lillee delivered a withering a verdict on the England attack.
As duke, Theseus might easily hasten on the day of marriage if he wished, and indeed he chafes at the waning 'old moon 'that' lingers my desires/Like to a stepdame or a dowager/Long withering out a young man's revenue ', and yet he chooses to abide by the self-imposed delay. Shakespeare
Mrs. Witherington was, in conferring her maternal bounty, naturally led to employ the agency of Hartley, the companion of her son, and to whom, since the recovery of her younger children, she almost looked up as to a tutelar deity. The Surgeon's Daughter
An athletic body was withering away, losing 3½ stone in three weeks. Times, Sunday Times
This is a stirring, withering polemic about breathtaking hypocrisy. Times, Sunday Times
But this tall, straight-backed man was also known as the ‘Towering Inferno ‘and withering self-criticism prevented him from fulfilling himself.’
An employee who forgot their password to log in to the corporate network would probably get a withering look from the support staff as they grovelled to have it reset.
But when the Americans launched a withering counterattack the defenders sustained heavy casualties and were forced to abandon the town, which was subsequently ransacked. Times, Sunday Times
By “withering,” I assume you mean shrivelling, fading or decaying. Britney and Paris Mum on McCain Ad - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
She was mistress of the withering put-down. Times, Sunday Times
For most of his career, Bronfman, who is married to a striking Latin American aristocrat, has endured withering criticism and was generally dismissed as a rich-kid dilettante. For Sale By Owner?
Spending cuts will further encumber the Navy's already withering fleet, which plays a central role in AirSea Battle. Asia Needs a Larger U.S. Defense Budget
Last week, making his second appearance at the corruption trial, he launched a withering attack on his critics.
He punished the players with the withering prediction that if they reproduced that form, the team would finish eighth. Times, Sunday Times
Indeed, what makes him such an entertaining lyricist and interviewee is the way he manages to dress witheringly cynical comments and spitefully barbed put-downs in such verbal finery and succinct epigrammatic wit.
The first thing the little rascal did was to write a withering leader denouncing Mr. Scandril as a "demagogue, the degradation of whose political opinions was only equaled by the disgustfulness of the family connections of which those opinions were the spawn! The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales
He punished the players with the withering prediction that if they reproduced that form, the team would finish eighth. Times, Sunday Times
A spokesman for the Indian government offered a withering assessment of the call. Times, Sunday Times
Hill was famed for his short fuse on the newsroom floor, and reserved his most withering insult - "nincompoop" - for those he felt had performed particularly poorly. The Guardian World News
Her sultry good looks, airy insouciance and withering scorn would have made me her instant slave.
He punished the players with the withering prediction that if they reproduced that form, the team would finish eighth. Times, Sunday Times
Withering still at the sight which still they upgrow to encounter. Amours De Voyage
to compliments inflated I've a withering reply
He blackguarded Crixus some more, and threw in a few withering remarks about my own shortcomings, and there I left him, with a promise to return later and report any developments. Flash For Freedom
Anyone who comes before her court who has failed to behave well - whether by ignoring a contract or just fudging the truth - can expect the fourth degree, often followed by a dose of withering sarcasm or outright scorn.
Despite the withering heat of the plains, still clearly to be seen at the foot of the mountain, this is cool trout country.
Thus the old federation of "independent states," all equal in rights and dignity, each wearing the "jewel of sovereignty" so celebrated in Southern oratory, had gone the way of all flesh under the withering blasts of Civil War. History of the United States
The combination of his financial acumen and withering attack appeared to have the desired effect. Times, Sunday Times
guns fired witheringly at the railroad cars
In contemporary North India, a couple of generations in the withering heat of the Gangetic plains turned the Great Moguls from hardy Turkic warlords into pale princes in petticoats.
But as the national obsession with Hansie's downfall naturally fades away, the withering gaze of the South African sporting public will return to its first love - the country's rugby team.
'Peter Paget,' the judge's voice was charged with withering contempt, 'your crime is far far worse than that of any unfortunate teenaged drug-taker who has appeared before me. High Society
A drum pounded, a horn blasted, and a withering fire of crossbow bolts sleeted across the dancing crabs. The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection
Stephanie smothered the withering response that sprang to mind. CHAMELEON
He said that Lizzie had been drunk at the time and I saw her shoot him a withering glance.
However, over our brief three-year history, there has been a gradual withering away of the staff. THE DICE MAN
Withering drought, the sawmill closing, families leaving the district in droves and the nationwide rural downturn had brought Ranfurly to its knees.
When Crowe began casting for a leading lady to complement Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire, he was apparently still swithering over who to give the part to when his star arrived for his first costume check.
The self-analysis is withering at times and self-deprecating.
It was as if her past had been sprayed with defoliant, withering before her eyes to a shrivelled meaningless husk. THE LAST TEMPTATION
For the body withering under the polluted skies of the City, with all the energies drained by the daily rigmarole of life, this is manna from heaven!
As Boy Scout marksmanship programs disappear, and marksmanship training withers in our schools due to withering budgets and increasing pressure of potential liability, that spiral will continue among the young who would otherwise be exposed to proper training and familiarization with basic marksmanship. Obama Administration Looks To Reinstate Assault-Weapons Ban
Whither American indie films?" asks Howard Feinstein at, appropriately enough, indieWIRE, where he finds signs of healthy evolution in Alex Holdridge's "masterwork," In Search of a Midnight Kiss, and signs of withering malaise in Kevin Connolly's Gardener of Eden. GreenCine Daily: Tribeca, 5/2.
Having lost significant ground to Obama on the issue of the economy, and facing a potentially defining and withering debate on Friday where he would be confronted on his statements on the economy that have led to this sharp decline, McCain has attempted to change the rules of the game, to erase many past errors through a putatively "unpolitical" move -- something we have seen before. Obama Rejects McCain's Call For Suspension Of Debate; Says He Was Blindsided
The trees have nearly lost their leaves, now scattered in russet showers, about their roots, while the branches are drawn in shadowy lines by the autumn sun upon the bleached grass and withering foliage with which it is strewn. Rural Hours
A couple of weeks ago California's Legislative Analyst's Office issued a withering report calling the state's 500-mile high-speed rail project between Anaheim and San Francisco a fiscal crackup ready to happen. Off the California Rails
This, combined with the ideal of the class-less society and the expected withering away of the state after the revolution, implies a form of cosmopolitanism of its own.
Unlike those who are rallying behind the president, Vidal retains his withering contempt for the man.
This would drive up quality, with poor schools withering away. Times, Sunday Times
In 1637, when Stanhope was persuaded to surrender his patent, Witherings took control of the whole postal system.
The cuckoo is not to be seen on the furze; the leaves are withering and the trees complaining of the cold. The Kiltartan Poetry Book: Prose Translations from the Irish
Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, has been subjected to withering media criticism for her alleged naiveness. But Biden is at least as bad and with far less excuse.
Note, The withering of a gourd is a thing which it does not become us to be angry at. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
The reform accord was to have been the crowning jewel of the summit, but ended up the target of withering criticism from human rights groups and development organisations who complained of a squandered opportunity.
The music stops and we are met with a withering look. Times, Sunday Times
Dawson was admired during that torrid series for the gutsy way he willingly took on nightwatchman duties and fearlessly stood up to Australia's withering attack but he only claimed a total of five wickets at 79.60 runs apiece.
From this cover, they swept the flats in front of their breastworks with withering gunfire.
So, I'm swithering at the moment about whether I will realistically be able to give up the alcohol.
She had wandered away amid the complexities and smirch and withering heats of the great world, and she had returned, simple, and clean, and wholesome. CHAPTER 2
Ennis is the man in this relationship - inexpressive, moody, and witheringly practical - and he tells Jack that their summer together is a one-time thing.
Guns fired witheringly at the railroad cars.
Yet, Juan and I - engaged in some innocent hand-holding, far less provocative than what was happening onstage or in the aisles - were the subject of many withering glances.
She has been on the receiving end of other withering and vitriolic attacks from women columnists.
Last month, Sir Michael Parkinson delievered a withering attack on modern television, in particular property and police-chase shows, as well as "shockumentaries". Latest news breaking news current news UK news world news celebrity news politics news
Noam Chomsky summed up the difference better than anyone with his withering commentary on "concision" on television. Barry Eisler: Fictional Politics
Had it no essential sacredness, no _noli-me-tangere_ quality of shining away the gambler's covetous glance, of withering his rude and venturous hand, or of poisoning, like some Nessus 'shirt, the lewd ruffian who might soon thereafter wear it? The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
She reserved her most withering scorn for journalists.
The torus, or, -- as in this flower from its peculiar form it is called, -- the tube of the calyx, alone forms the frutescent part of the hip; and the complete seeds, husk and all, (the firm triangular husk enclosing an almond-shaped kernel,) are grouped closely in its interior cavity, while the calyx remains on the top in a large and scarcely withering star. Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
He said that Lizzie had been drunk at the time and I saw her shoot him a withering glance.
After performing several experiments, Withering discovered that this purple-flowered plant was a potent cardiotonic, that is, it improved the heart’s pumping action, helping to rid the body of the excess fluid causing the congestion. Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible
Modernity requires constant and unceasing upheaval, and its absence does not bring blessed peace, but withering and death.
He looked at me with the withering contempt I so richly deserved and proceeded to remind me of a bit of British history. Times, Sunday Times
I'd been swithering all week, but now the prospect of endless cups of tea, the Sunday papers and a whole afternoon of Dawson's Creek and the central heating on full blast seemed very appealing.
Weapons projects that have been written off or delayed have cost the taxpayer more than £8bn, a cross-party committee of senior MPs said in a withering critique of waste in the Ministry of Defence. MPs attack MoD over £8bn weapons project waste
'It was what we call a drying-up, or withering of the System.' Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, has been subjected to withering media criticism for her alleged naiveness. But Biden is at least as bad and with far less excuse.
The rain is expected to give some respite to the withering kharif crops and orchards in Himachal.
They have many sacred implements or relics, which are for the most part carefully kept concealed from the eyes of all, but especially from the women, such as, pieces of rock crystal, said to have been extracted by them from individuals who were suffering under the withering influence of some hostile sorcerers; the pringurru, a sacred piece of bone (used sometimes for bleeding), etc. The latter, if burned to ashes in the fire, possesses mortiferous influence over enemies. An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans, by Edward John Eyre
However, over our brief three-year history, there has been a gradual withering away of the staff. THE DICE MAN
On many trees this autumn, the leaves are just withering away without much brilliance of colour. Times, Sunday Times
A hard, cold Christmas it was proving to be, that year of 1135, all bitter black frost and grudging snow, thin and sharp as whips before a withering east wind. A Rare Benedictine
Shark Tank (back on Friday at 9 p.m.), the Montreal native has become known as the bombastic investor who routinely dashes the dreams of budding entrepreneurs, quite often in the most withering manner imaginable. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Russian Mammoth: The petals are withering, but the leaflike bracts are still green and the seed has yet to ripen. Groundwork: The deliciously seedy sunflower
Indusium hood-shaped, fixed centrally behind the sorus and arching over it, soon withering, often illusive. The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
She is a patient one, and dismissed me with a withering glance.
No sisterhood here: both Anna and Claire vent their spleen upon her with hilariously withering spite.
When William Withering, a Shropshire physician and botanist, heard how a man with dropsy had recovered after drinking a herbal medicine that had been brewed from foxglove, he had to know exactly how the plant had worked.
The Dragons are ready to rip their dreams apart with a scathing put-down or withering look. The Sun
The old values are withering away in a new society.
He gestured to Straeger, who was looking so disdainfully at her that Voelker could feel the withering contempt radiating from him as though he were telepathic himself.
His head tender with such thoughts, he trod through the withering blossoms to the Mission. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
An athletic body was withering away, losing 3½ stone in three weeks. Times, Sunday Times
They are quite likely to see right through you and your feckless ways, like Saffy in Absolutely Fabulous withering Edina and Patsy with her magnificently polished disdain.
We swithered about joining the EU, reducing our influence on it, and now we are swithering about the euro.
Combining foxy irony with withering disdain, McDiarmid presents us with the tragedy of a man for whom the mask has become the face.
What makes the November 14 race different is it will be held in the cool of November instead of in the withering South Carolina heat of Labor Day weekend.
No region in the state is immune to a withering norther, but the odds of connecting with fishable conditions improve the farther south you are willing to travel.
She pauses to give a cup of tea placed slightly too far away a withering look. Times, Sunday Times
the guns opened a withering fire
The sufferings she has had to endure, are, she says, beyond compare; the poems which she writes breathe a withering passion, a smouldering despair, an agony of spirit that would melt the soul of a drayman, were he to read them. Mrs. Perkins's Ball
Best of all was the selfsame Evil CIA Lady's withering "You're the best England's got?" followed by Gwen's right hook as she points out: "I'm Welsh. Torchwood: Miracle Day – episode two
I am swithering, I have to say, not least because of the cravat.
Yet it does not stop the multi-millionaire launching another withering attack. The Sun
She balanced herself neatly on the good side of withering. BEHINDLINGS
Finally, an attempt is made to tie the episode of the fig tree withering to Homer.
Russian secret service personnel, idled by the withering of Russia's global presence, resort to private business or are re-deployed by the state to spy on industrial and economic secrets in order to aid budding Russian multinationals.
A spokesman for the Indian government offered a withering assessment of the call. Times, Sunday Times
The combination of his financial acumen and withering attack appeared to have the desired effect. Times, Sunday Times
Crops were withering, cattle were dying, and the river that once sculpted canyons was a trickle.
It's like the MMR jab, people were swithering whether to go ahead with it.
But it's Broom, with her self-depreciating good humour and withering disdain for modern materialism, that makes the book so compelling.
Sometimes when we tried to speak Spanish we were met with withering sneers.
Indeed his criticisms of the official Palestinian leadership were both withering and relentless, keeping with his consistent injunction to oppose all orthodoxy, especially the lazy reductiveness or corruption or failures of those with whom one shares an affinity. September « 2008 « Bill Ayers
For a withering smackdown, read his take on the interview in the the magazine.
It was first recognized as a mineral species by Dr. Withering in 1783, who discovered it in the Parys copper-mine in Anglesey; the name anglesite, from this locality, was given by F.S. Beudant in 1832. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
But eventually even that fell apart under the withering internal gaze of my mind's eye.
Sahirn P’Thall stared back at Cogley with a withering glare that the defense attorney would have called cold-blooded, if Kradians had circulatory systems. The Case of the Colonist’s Corpse
And the group also launched a withering attack on the NFU, claiming it had ‘presided over the collapse of British farming’ by colluding with the Government and big business.
The learned gentleman who does the withering business and who blights all opponents with his gloomy sarcasm is as merry as a grig at a French watering – place. Bleak House
He said that Lizzie had been drunk at the time and I saw her shoot him a withering glance.
Stephanie smothered the withering response that sprang to mind. CHAMELEON
But this tall, straight-backed man was also known as the ‘Towering Inferno ‘and withering self-criticism prevented him from fulfilling himself.’
they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire
Four years later Withering’s other other work in geology was recognized in Germany, where in 1796 a new mineral was named “witherite” by Abraham Werner. American Connections
I'd be heartily sick of dusty decorations by then, so I've some understanding of the reason behind the withering glance.

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