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

To me, though, “Romance in Marseille” reflects the 1930s discovery and celebration of outcasts, rogues and criminals, all of them regarded as more vital and passionate than the upright citizens of etiolated bourgeois society.

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2020

It is not surprising that early racing paintings show animals that are etiolated and apparently long in the back: they are trained until every ounce of ‘condition’ – spare flesh – is sweated away.

From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2012

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