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Example sentences for "shriveling"

Lexicographically close words:
shrinks; shrive; shrived; shrivel; shriveled; shrivelled; shrivelling; shrivels; shriven; shroff
  1. His face plainly showed traces of a struggle between a heavy mortification and an authoritative nature; his long, gray hair hung in disorder about a face like a piece of parchment shriveling in the fire.

  2. Gouty kidney, an affection occurring during the progress of gout, the kidney shriveling and containing concretions of urate of sodium.

  3. Nagkakupus ang láwas sa tisísun, The tubercular’s body is shriveling up.

  4. Nagkakulub na nà siya kay tigúlang na kaáyu, She is shriveling up with old age.

  5. There were lines crawling over her face too manifold for even the etcher's stroke, and over her little shriveling hands that were too bird-like for warmth.

  6. Come winter there is almost an instant shriveling to naked stalk, and the trellis-work behind vines comes through.

  7. The fast-shriveling body in the spaceship retained life long enough to recognize the blunder, but not long enough to correct it.

  8. While he had lain helpless and shriveling on a compartment floor something unusual had approached to within half a mile of the ship through the thick swamp vegetation.

  9. Thus, shriveling of the pickles is prevented to a great extent and the growth and activity of the lactic bacteria are not seriously checked.

  10. It keeps long without the least shriveling or loss of flavor.

  11. Without any shriveling or loss of flavor, it keeps till May.

  12. What care I Though falls the sky And the shriveling earth to a cinder turn; No fires of doom Can ever consume What never was made nor meant to burn!

  13. At this moment, then, I felt myself slowly but surely shrinking and shriveling up.

  14. Already half the blossoms of the clover had turned brown and were shriveling away into inconspicuous seediness.

  15. First and most striking, the mammary gland and the uterus in women, and the shriveling lips and tongue of elderly men.

  16. This process of shriveling on the part of the appendix is not ancient history at all, but exceedingly modern; indeed, it is still going on in our bodies, unless we are over sixty-five years of age.


  17. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shriveling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    atrophy; consumption; crumbling; decadent; declining; degenerate; disintegrating; draining; drooping; drying; dwindling; effete; fading; failing; falling; flagging; languishing; pining; regressive; retrograde; retrogressive; shrinkage; shrinking; sinking; sliding; slipping; subsiding; thinning; waning; wasting; withering; worsening