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Example sentences for withers

It can flower in the mind even as it withers at your feet.
With our bubbles in home equity and credit card debt now popped, aggregate demand withers.
The ravaged plant then withers and dies, its grains shriveled into useless pebbles.
She droops, she withers, she wastes away before the eye.
The talent they began with withers as a plant would upon lacking sunlight or water.
Bears, however, think profits will collapse as loan books shrink and capital-market activity withers.
But it merely raised its hair on its withers and shook its horns and followed after the canoe.
Over time, the ability of government to deliver benefits withers.
But, in the end, the fish coughs him up and the gourd withers.

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