How to Use withers in a Sentence

withers

plural noun

• Once the dodder has a tight grip on its host, the anchoring root withers away.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2020
• War gets postponed, Famine withers in the dining hall, and Pestilence … well.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 22 July 2021
• If the system withers, the region becomes a less attractive place to live and work.
  — Aarian Marshall, Wired, 14 Dec. 2020
• In the meantime, the economy withers, and jobs disappear, not to return.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 25 Aug. 2020
• Before that stubborn final leaf withers on the branch, here is a hopeful—yet realistic—scenario for Biden’s first year or so in the White House.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 19 Nov. 2020
• Their flowers last only a few weeks, as Southern Hemisphere spring withers into summer and the year speeds toward its end.
  — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Nov. 2020
• The poor fish’s tongue withers into a useless nub, leaving the mouth vacant for the louse itself to physically take its place, helping its host move food around its mouth and grind big morsels down to size.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2020
• Without the basic guarantee of public safety, the city withers.
  — Charles Fain Lehman, National Review, 28 May 2021
• Timing matters because each cotton flower is receptive to pollen for just a few hours and withers by sunset.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 12 Apr. 2021
• The pain of an elderly woman in Greece will not change the behavior of oil companies and oligarchs, who spend billions on rocket ships as Gaia withers and burns.
  — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2021
• As the rice-grain-sized scale sucks away roseau cane's life-sustaining juices, the otherwise hardy plant withers and dies, and its thick roots release their grip on the soil, speeding Plaquemines' already dire land-loss problem.
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 11 Dec. 2020
• Ignoring Echo, Narcissus chooses instead the unattainable lover of his own ego, and withers with the pain of unrequited passion for himself.
  — Jessi Jezewska Stevens, The New Yorker, 8 May 2021
• Without school plays and assemblies, a technician’s livelihood withers.
  — Peter Eavis, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2020
• As seagrass withers statewide, manatees have little to eat, leaving them vulnerable to disease, cold and starvation.
  — Jim Waymer, USA TODAY, 8 May 2021
• The economic damage is already becoming apparent as tourism withers again and exporters face new logistics bottlenecks during the peak late-summer season.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2021
• The community withers, its various factions settling into poisonous distrust.
  — Regina Marler, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021

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