shriveled
Example Sentences
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She parted some creosote branches to reveal a shriveled shrub, just ankle-high.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 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
That's when his amazing, formidable personality cult shriveled.
From Salon • Mar. 22, 2024
His flesh has shrunk and shriveled, life reduced to little more than a thin mask over an imminent death.
From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2024
Yes, I could see there was charcoal for cooking it, and shriveled red pili-pili peppers for spicing it, and calabash bowls to put it in, but where was the it, whatever it was?
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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