shriveled
Example Sentences
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In fact, fundraising for private-equity, venture-capital and other nontraded funds has shriveled, and their portfolios are glutted with thousands of unsold companies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
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
My right eye is lazy, shriveled and blind; it moves like an out-of-control marble circling a drain.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 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
I looked down to find myself ankle-deep in muck afloat with the shriveled heads of dead sunflowers.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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