SHRIVEL in a Sentence

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22 example sentences for SHRIVEL, such as:

1. The heat shrivelled up the grass.
2. Her face had shriveled, her upper lip had sunk in, and her eyes were dim.
3. The shrivelled voice of the heath did not alarm him, for that was familiar.
4. Then they dressed him in uniform with his decorations and placed his shriveled little body on a table.
5. Near them, in an armchair, sat a thin, shriveled, old woman, with a meek expression on her childlike face.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHRIVEL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
shrivel
 v.  wither; decrease in size; become or make shrunken and wrinkled, often by drying
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  His shriveled old hands were folded and on the finger of one of them Pierre noticed a large cast iron ring with a seal representing a death's head.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I
2  Anna Pavlovna gave him her shriveled hand to kiss and introduced him to several persons whom he did not know, giving him a whispered description of each.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI
3  "Your joke is too bad, it's witty but unjust," said Anna Pavlovna, shaking her little shriveled finger at him.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VII
4  Near them, in an armchair, sat a thin, shriveled, old woman, with a meek expression on her childlike face.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII
5  His face seemed to have shriveled or melted; his features had grown smaller.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VIII
6  Then they dressed him in uniform with his decorations and placed his shriveled little body on a table.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VIII
7  Her face had shriveled, her upper lip had sunk in, and her eyes were dim.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XII
8  Pretty soon a spider went crawling up my shoulder, and I flipped it off and it lit in the candle; and before I could budge it was all shriveled up.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I.
9  His gaunt face, however, and his clothes, which hung so baggily over his shrivelled limbs, proclaimed what it was that gave him that senile and decrepit appearance.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
10  Her plump little white legs terminating in white socks and neat shoes with shining buckles, offered a strange contrast to the long shrivelled members of her companion.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
11  Thy cunning may soon swell out once more thy shrivelled purse, but neither leech nor medicine can restore thy scorched hide and flesh wert thou once stretched on these bars.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
12  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.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  The shrivelled voice of the heath did not alarm him, for that was familiar.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 8 Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody
14  Her hair was as grey as her companion's, her face as bloodless and shrivelled, but amber-tinted, with swarthy shadows sharpening the nose and hollowing the temples.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
15  In a word, after being tried out, the crisp, shrivelled blubber, now called scraps or fritters, still contains considerable of its unctuous properties.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
Example Sentence:
1  The heat shrivelled up the grass.