shriveled
Example Sentences
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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
The Mountain Fire had scorched some of the fruit, leaving it shriveled or in ashes.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2024
That's when his amazing, formidable personality cult shriveled.
From Salon • Mar. 22, 2024
His flesh has shrunk and shriveled, life reduced to little more than a thin mask over an imminent death.
From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2024
As August wore on, the square of unkempt grass in the middle of Grimmauld Place shriveled in the sun until it was brittle and brown.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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