etiolated

Example Sentences

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A sadly etiolated Princess Margaret died at 71 in 2002.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2024

Succulent varieties that require more direct light will become etiolated and lose color without it.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2022

Poking up above the Manhattan skyline like etiolated beanpoles, they seem to defy the laws of both gravity and commercial sense.

From The Guardian • Feb. 5, 2019

“Existing at the pleasure of the advertisers, to mulct the public, gratifying their stupidity, and render some small advance on investment to the owners, offering putative employment to their etiolated, wastrel sons.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 6, 2018

Already, on the walk from the station, the May sunshine had made him feel dirty and etiolated, a creature of indoors, with the sooty dust of London in the pores of his skin.

From "1984" by George Orwell