Shrivelled

"Shrivelled" in a Sentence (10 examples)

Raisins are shrivelled grapes.

Mary shrivelled Tom with one glance.

His clothes hung baggily over his shrivelled limbs.

In the evening which succeeded my poor father's funeral, I cut a lock from my hair, and, as it consumed in the fire, I swore that my rage and revenge should pursue his enemies, until they shrivelled before me like that scorched-up symbol of annihilation.

Shrivelled leaves are wafting away on the evening breeze.

The two old women rose from the bed, and crouching over the fire, held out their withered hands to catch the heat. The flame threw a ghastly light on their shrivelled faces, and made their ugliness appear terrible, as, in this position, they began to converse in a low voice.

"Were the flowers on the grave shrivelled?" "No, they looked quite fresh."

Damiano’s body has shrivelled to skin and bones.

A prune is a shrivelled plum.

All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.

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