shrivelled in English

adjective
1
wrinkled and contracted, especially due to loss of moisture or old age.
her long, shriveled hand
verb
1
wrinkle and contract or cause to wrinkle and contract, especially due to loss of moisture.
the flowers simply shriveled up

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1. 4 He has a shrivelled face.

2. 3 The leaves shrivelled in the sun.

3. 10 It looked old and shrivelled.

4. 6 The hot sunshine shrivelled the grass.

5. 3 With time the pinna becomes shrivelled.

6. 28 The heat shrivelled up the grass.

7. 2 The heat shrivelled up the grass.

8. 5 He had become a shrivelled old man.

9. 16 The lack of rain has shrivelled the crops.

10. 1 The lack of rain has shrivelled the crops.

11. 21 How it had shrivelled her to the point of annihilation.

12. 24 The cook stood there like a shrivelled bootlace, tight-lipped, implacable, disapproving.

13. How it had shrivelled her to the point of annihilation.

14. 11 She shrivelled up, fell forwards, like a paper doll.

15. 8 The prolonged hot weather had shrivelled the grapes in every vineyard.

16. 22 This statue was shrivelled inside its suit, hanging from a hook in its chest.

17. 15 They squirmed, shrivelled and after a brief struggle, gave up the ghost.

18. 18 The ghost of Ken Noakes shrivelled and vanished from her subconscious.

19. 9 The leaves on the plant had shrivelled up from lack of water.

20. The outside of the Bresaola should look dark, dry and a little shrivelled

21. There sat the Babushka Stepanida, a black figure in her black shawl, gaunt and shrivelled

22. • As firms' share of total deposits has Ballooned, so Sberbank's relative power has shrivelled.

23. 12 If bulbs look shrivelled when unpacked, immerse in trays of damp peat until plumped out.

24. 26 They both hunted through the debris on the floor to find that shrivelled scrap bearing his name.

25. 27 As firms' share of total deposits has ballooned, so Sberbank's relative power has shrivelled.

26. 23 All the build up of delight shrivelled and stripped Jay to lonely self-scourging.

27. 7 Those oranges were looking a bit old and shrivelled, so I threw them out.

28. 30 The whole house smelled of it, of lost youth shrivelled up into a kind of dust.

29. 16 Small and shrivelled, still a little sticky. Like a walnut, Jessica had once described it, lovingly.

30. Small and shrivelled, still a little sticky. Like a walnut, Jessica had once described it, lovingly.

31. 25 The few unpicked apples that bobbed and swayed on the bare top branches were all shrivelled up.

32. 20 The faint hope he had offered shrivelled and died in the heat of the hungry, leaping flames.

33. 13 She was left holding a jelly baby of shrivelled skin, her fingers glued together, webbed by a sticky emission.

34. 29 The brief glimpse of family lives during the Easter holidays at Dinard had shrivelled into a dream.

35. She was left holding a jelly baby of shrivelled skin, her fingers glued together, webbed by a sticky emission.

36. The few unpicked apples that bobbed and swayed on the bare top branches were all shrivelled up.

37. 14 Their skin peeled away and shrivelled while tears of agony rolled from their little red eyes.

38. It was dead, shrivelled, blown to dust, exactly as the sorceress had said it would be, centuries earlier.

39. It was a shrunken Frank, whose body seemed to have contracted out of sympathy with his shrivelled spirit.

40. 19 It was dead, shrivelled, blown to dust, exactly as the sorceress had said it would be, centuries earlier.

41. Woke up to hear bulldozers Rumble through vacant lots, Saw houseplants we forgot to water Shrivelled in their pots.

42. 28 It was a shrunken Frank,[www.Sentencedict.com] whose body seemed to have contracted out of sympathy with his shrivelled spirit.

43. 17 And behold, he shrivelled and withered under their eyes, and became a small handful of grey dust and glass powder.

44. 2 days ago · The country is adjudged the largest economy in Africa, yet poverty stands like a colossus here, Bestriding many homes, emptying their bowels and shrinking already shrivelled flesh

45. XXII (OF 25) ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON He has a little shrivelled face, looking as if it had been in the fire, and a short Cottony beard, like moss on an old stone.