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
Poking up above the Manhattan skyline like etiolated beanpoles, they seem to defy the laws of both gravity and commercial sense.
From The Guardian • Feb. 5, 2019
One woman in his new novel is described as “so etiolated by Bikram yoga that she looked like gristle.”
From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2014
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
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