Example Sentences

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Shriveled crimson ghost peppers poke out beneath a canopy of waxy green leaves.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 29, 2022

Speaking of Shriveled Beings No Longer With Us: Second place receives a pair of ceramic California Raisins figurines, part of that weird 1980s promotion featuring Claymation fruit depicted as blues singers.

From Washington Post • May 19, 2016

Shriveled old men share a water pipe and one of them points to the skies and shouts “What now, brother?” as they watch men and women carry damaged sugar cane to feed to their cattle.

From Salon • Aug. 27, 2012

One neighbor in Indiana remembered the young Lincoln as "a long -- thin -- leggy -- gawky boy dried up & Shriveled."

From Salon • May 29, 2011

Shriveled and drawn like latterday bogfolk, their faces of boiled sheeting, the yellowed palings of their teeth.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy