shrivel

It was only in the 1990s that Germany began to let its defense industry shrivel again as it diverted spending toward the welfare state.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025

He starts the film at a speed-dating event where, in a great montage, he disappoints a procession of dewy singletons who shrivel up when this hunk comes across as cold and rude.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2025

Only a few short weeks after we carried the luscious green plant into our new home, its protruding branches and leaves started to shrivel.

From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2024

His wife, Stephanie Allen, who cares for him, said it is hard to watch her husband, the commercial helicopter pilot, the veteran Hollywood crew member, shrivel in front of the TV.

From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2024

Hatching from their black eggs, they detected the dry, indoor air and the false sun of the lightbulbs, and began to shrivel up.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

As the process unfolds, the cell's nucleus, which contains its genetic material, gradually shrivels before ultimately breaking apart.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

That’s because dehydration shrivels and distorts tissues, but frozen organs mostly keep their shape.

From National Geographic ● Aug. 7, 2023

Without it, the country shrivels to a landlocked rump state.

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2022

As the Iranian currency, the rial, shrivels in value and people watch their incomes diminish with surging prices, strikes over salary disputes among bus drivers and teachers have also gained traction across the country.

From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2022

The possibility of being the favorite shrivels like a dying flower.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

San Juan's once-sparkling rivers have shriveled due to drought, and residents in the rugged, western Argentine province fear that prospective mining projects in the Andes will make matters worse.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

All she can point to is a garage stuffed with throw pillows, remnants of her shriveled dream to design interior spaces for affluent clients.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

A survey of hundreds of Barclays online brokerage clients during the 2008-09 financial crisis found that their willingness to take risk shriveled as the stock market crashed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

We, on the other hand, will be long gone by then, shriveled by some far more minor cataclysm like the fragile little primates we are.

From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2025

When he reached the New York Café his clothes clung wet and shriveled to his body and his shoes squeaked with water.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

Six weeks without rain has scorched his cauliflowers, shrivelled his spuds, and shrunk his bank balance.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

We walk on, through a field of potatoes, the plants shrivelled to nothing and lying brown on the soil.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

"A healthy plant would have 70 to 80 grains. This one will produce 10," she said, pointing to one shrivelled shoot.

From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026

The drought has laid waste to the Somali countryside, leaving crops shrivelled and the scrublands dotted with the corpses of emaciated livestock.

From Reuters ● Dec. 13, 2022

The sullen shrivelled leaves of a past year hung on them, grating and rattling in the sad airs, but their maggot-ridden buds were only just opening.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

By diversifying its exposure across many autocallables and a range of maturity dates, an ETF can mitigate most of the risks of shrinking income or shriveling principal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

But the oversized airport was a bleak metaphor for a city that was once more bustling and then got let down—first by the shriveling of the steel business, then by USAir itself.

From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2025

Is queer humanity just a transitory circus in years of flourishing and a graveyard in years of shriveling?

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2025

If butterflies lay eggs as plants are shriveling, caterpillars might enter the world with nothing to eat.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2024

It was weird to watch his smooth, muscular flesh age, turn a jaundiced yellow, and start shriveling on the bone.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

It was condemned by international rights groups as a symbol of Hong Kong's shrivelling press freedoms.

From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026

But some Labour figures wonder if as many as 80 more could choose not to officially back anyone, shrivelling the electorate.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2025

While the bank had been preparing markets for a further stimulus cut at its March 10 meeting, rate hike bets are shrivelling.

From Reuters ● Mar. 1, 2022

The gates of the suburban mausoleum that could soon house Spain’s most restless ghost are decked with a shrivelling bunch of red and yellow carnations, a handful of prayer cards and a cheap, broken crucifix.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2019

Cruelty to punctuation is quite unlegislated: you can get away with pulling the legs off semicolons; shrivelling question marks on the garden path under a powerful magnifying glass; you name it.

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author