shrivel

More frequently, his crops shrivel before they can be harvested.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

He starts the film at a speed-dating event where, in a great montage, he disappoints a procession of dewy singletons who shrivel up when this hunk comes across as cold and rude.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2025

Only a few short weeks after we carried the luscious green plant into our new home, its protruding branches and leaves started to shrivel.

From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2024

His wife, Stephanie Allen, who cares for him, said it is hard to watch her husband, the commercial helicopter pilot, the veteran Hollywood crew member, shrivel in front of the TV.

From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2024

The Chicano roots she had rejected had refused to shrivel and die; the culture she had hoped to adopt had refused to compensate.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

As the process unfolds, the cell's nucleus, which contains its genetic material, gradually shrivels before ultimately breaking apart.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

That’s because dehydration shrivels and distorts tissues, but frozen organs mostly keep their shape.

From National Geographic ● Aug. 7, 2023

Its life is a matter of hours; in the light of day, it retreats and shrivels, a ball gown turned to rags.

From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2021

Cherry growers are rushing to harvest their crop before it shrivels in the sun — but stopping their picking at lunchtime to avoid the baking heat.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 2021

My heart shrivels when I realize which boy Baraa is talking about.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

San Juan's once-sparkling rivers have shriveled due to drought, and residents in the rugged, western Argentine province fear that prospective mining projects in the Andes will make matters worse.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

Hanwha plans to pump $5 billion into the site, hoping to rebuild a shipbuilding workforce and supply ecosystem that has largely shriveled away.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025

We, on the other hand, will be long gone by then, shriveled by some far more minor cataclysm like the fragile little primates we are.

From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2025

On the lower end of skills and pay, apparel employment shriveled as Southern California garment makers focused on fashion and small quantities, eliminating tens of thousands of manual labor jobs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024

And then I draw a shriveled girl trapped within her shadow.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman

"A healthy plant would have 70 to 80 grains. This one will produce 10," she said, pointing to one shrivelled shoot.

From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026

In the corner of one stall, we see what looks like a saucepan lid full of shrivelled, straw-coloured fruit bats.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2023

The current account surplus has shrivelled and the budget deficit is widening, despite hefty drawdowns from a rainy-day fund.

From Reuters ● Feb. 15, 2023

The drought has laid waste to the Somali countryside, leaving crops shrivelled and the scrublands dotted with the corpses of emaciated livestock.

From Reuters ● Dec. 13, 2022

The sullen shrivelled leaves of a past year hung on them, grating and rattling in the sad airs, but their maggot-ridden buds were only just opening.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

By diversifying its exposure across many autocallables and a range of maturity dates, an ETF can mitigate most of the risks of shrinking income or shriveling principal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

But the oversized airport was a bleak metaphor for a city that was once more bustling and then got let down—first by the shriveling of the steel business, then by USAir itself.

From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2025

Separately, the same high pressure system compounded by scarce Alpine snow melt this year has been a factor for the shriveling of lakes and rivers in northern Italy in recent weeks.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2023

Depression and other mental health problems can act like weed killer, shriveling these connections and making it harder to function cognitively.

From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2023

The curtain dropped away, and in the mirror I saw my hands shriveling, curling, growing long delicate claws.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan

He must know his chances to do so appear to be shrivelling yet further.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

It was condemned by international rights groups as a symbol of Hong Kong's shrivelling press freedoms.

From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026

While the bank had been preparing markets for a further stimulus cut at its March 10 meeting, rate hike bets are shrivelling.

From Reuters ● Mar. 1, 2022

California is especially badly hit: snowpack all but vanished, rivers, lakes and reservoirs dropping to record lows, farms shrivelling.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 12, 2015

Cruelty to punctuation is quite unlegislated: you can get away with pulling the legs off semicolons; shrivelling question marks on the garden path under a powerful magnifying glass; you name it.

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author