shriveling up

Example Sentences

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Temperatures are climbing, shores are flooding, fields are shriveling up.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2021

Linnell’s study notes that such opportunities are already shriveling up.

From Slate • Jul. 20, 2016

Seventy percent of the economy is driven by consumer spending, but what happens if consumers’ capacity to buy starts shriveling up?

From Salon • May 7, 2016

It was gnawing at me, shriveling up around my hair follicles, so itchy I had to tense my entire body to keep from scratching it.

From The Verge • Aug. 16, 2015

I pictured a person shriveling up and crumbling to dust like the apple on my nightstand.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs