shriveling up
Example Sentences
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Temperatures are climbing, shores are flooding, fields are shriveling up.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2021
Linnell’s study notes that such opportunities are already shriveling up.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2016
Seventy percent of the economy is driven by consumer spending, but what happens if consumers’ capacity to buy starts shriveling up?
From Salon ● May 7, 2016
It was gnawing at me, shriveling up around my hair follicles, so itchy I had to tense my entire body to keep from scratching it.
From The Verge ● Aug. 16, 2015
Ferula was right, I thought; I’ve been left all alone and my body and my soul are shriveling up.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
