etiolated

Example Sentences

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A sadly etiolated Princess Margaret died at 71 in 2002.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2024

However, when succulents become etiolated, they can only grow thicker new growth once sunlight is corrected.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2022

“Existing at the pleasure of the advertisers, to mulct the public, gratifying their stupidity, and render some small advance on investment to the owners, offering putative employment to their etiolated, wastrel sons.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 6, 2018

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