Withering Sentence Examples

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  • Rhyn gave Katie a long, withering look that she bore with crossed arms.

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  • Alex glanced up from the paperwork, giving Rob a withering look.

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  • She crossed her arms and sat on the arm of the couch, pinning him with a withering look.

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  • Boris was right to go and expose himself to their withering scorn.

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  • I did not answer very quickly, so some colleagues gave me withering glances.

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  • Kinerase contains kinetin, a plant-based antioxidant that was first discovered by scientists who noticed that it prevented plant leaves from withering and drying out.

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  • The foliage in some of the numerous varieties is almost evergreen, and in Britain is retained long after the autumnal withering.

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  • With their withering away the state will also wither away.

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  • Lenin envisaged the gradual withering away of the state from the very beginnings of workers ' power.

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  • Only then will the prospects of the withering away of the state open up.

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  • Where black and oolong teas go through withering, rolling, oxidizing, drying, and sorting, green and white teas are not oxidized, or fermented, as part of processing.

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  • When a child has primarily motor delays, conditions such as cerebral palsy, ataxia, spina bifida, spinal muscular atrophy (withering) and myopathy may be present.

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  • He began one recent withering critique of Government foreign policy with " an unashamed admirer of my right hon.

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  • Centrifugal migration is usually a matter of compulsion; it may be necessitated by natural causes, such as a change of climate leading to the withering of pastures or destruction of agricultural land, to inundation, earthquake, pestilence or to an excess of population over means of support; or to artificial causes, such as the wholesale deportation of a conquered people; or to political or religious persecution.

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  • The website carries a withering critique of the government 's response to the Royal Commission report.

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  • With their withering away the state will also withering away the state will also wither away.

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  • Withering, who, in his Account of the Foxglove (1785), gave details of upwards of zoo cases chiefly dropsical, in which it was used.

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  • The principal difference from the manner described of making black tea lies in the omission of the withering and fermenting, and the substitution for those of a steaming or panning process.

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  • The descent of the priest into the sacrificial foss symbolized the death of Attis, the withering of the vegetation of Mother Earth; his bath of blood and emergence the restoration of Attis, the rebirth of vegetation.

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  • About the beginning of September the crop is ripe, which is known by the withering of the leaves; the bulbs are then to be pulled, and exposed on the ground till well dried, and they are then to be put away in a store-room, or loft, where they may be perfectly secured from frost and damp.

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  • I can read Islamic extremists who say much the same thing, and deserve the same withering contempt.

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  • She gave him a withering look, wondering what crack he was smoking to think he did her any favor by bringing her here instead of to a hospital.

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