shrivels

Example Sentences

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When the home lineup is daunting, as well, the overall margin for error shrivels.

From Seattle Times • May 4, 2024

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

From National Geographic • Aug. 7, 2023

But West shines, first as a woman in love then as one who shrivels into seething disillusion when her career stalls while her husband’s blossoms.

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2022

But at harvest, at the right time on the right grapes, the right type of botrytis shrivels the grapes to concentrate the juice.

From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2021

The fruits swell and burst crimson and the tree shrivels and dies.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García