shrivel

More frequently, his crops shrivel before they can be harvested.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

He starts the film at a speed-dating event where, in a great montage, he disappoints a procession of dewy singletons who shrivel up when this hunk comes across as cold and rude.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2025

Only a few short weeks after we carried the luscious green plant into our new home, its protruding branches and leaves started to shrivel.

From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2024

His wife, Stephanie Allen, who cares for him, said it is hard to watch her husband, the commercial helicopter pilot, the veteran Hollywood crew member, shrivel in front of the TV.

From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2024

“Isn’t that just typical,” Maria said.11 We can shrivel up in the heat, but the machines get a first-class hotel room.”

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

As the process unfolds, the cell's nucleus, which contains its genetic material, gradually shrivels before ultimately breaking apart.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

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

From National Geographic ● Aug. 7, 2023

As the Iranian currency, the rial, shrivels in value and people watch their incomes diminish with surging prices, strikes over salary disputes among bus drivers and teachers have also gained traction across the country.

From Seattle Times ● May 23, 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 possibility of being the favorite shrivels like a dying flower.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

More recently, a collapsed property bubble has shriveled investment and further widened the current account surplus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

San Juan's once-sparkling rivers have shriveled due to drought, and residents in the rugged, western Argentine province fear that prospective mining projects in the Andes will make matters worse.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

She parted some creosote branches to reveal a shriveled shrub, just ankle-high.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

Another liability, a short-term borrowing program called the overnight reverse repo facility that amounted to more than $2 trillion in recent years, already shriveled nearly to zero during a previous balance-sheet drawdown.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026

It was bald, with tattered ears, a narrow chest, a pot belly, and shriveled, spindly limbs.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

"A healthy plant would have 70 to 80 grains. This one will produce 10," she said, pointing to one shrivelled shoot.

From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026

It is a vote he would lose, and badly, and it might expose just how shrivelled that parliamentary loyalty to him now is.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2023

The current account surplus has shrivelled and the budget deficit is widening, despite hefty drawdowns from a rainy-day fund.

From Reuters ● Feb. 15, 2023

Following consecutive seasons of poor rains, rivers and water pans have dried up and grasslands have shrivelled up in the game reserves.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2022

The cook stood there like a shrivelled bootlace, tight-lipped, implacable, disapproving.

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl

In July, just 2 millimeters of rain fell in East Anglia, drying out fields and shriveling vegetables in one of the U.K.’s breadbaskets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

But the oversized airport was a bleak metaphor for a city that was once more bustling and then got let down—first by the shriveling of the steel business, then by USAir itself.

From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2025

If butterflies lay eggs as plants are shriveling, caterpillars might enter the world with nothing to eat.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2024

Depression and other mental health problems can act like weed killer, shriveling these connections and making it harder to function cognitively.

From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2023

I imagined passing my armlessness on to other people, their fully grown arms shrinking and shriveling and getting sucked up into their shoulders with a terrible slurping sound after I touched them.

From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling

But when he saw the ginkgo shrivelling, he "realised something this horrific could actually happen in our society".

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Snaking queues of vehicles waited in Myanmar for shrivelling petrol supplies on Wednesday, with some gas stations shuttered as fuel stocks dried up due to the war in the Middle East.

From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026

While the bank had been preparing markets for a further stimulus cut at its March 10 meeting, rate hike bets are shrivelling.

From Reuters ● Mar. 1, 2022

California is especially badly hit: snowpack all but vanished, rivers, lakes and reservoirs dropping to record lows, farms shrivelling.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 12, 2015

Her body curled too; as the weeks turned to months, she shrank into herself like the stiffest of fetuses, shrivelling, her skin sallow and waxy.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen