Withered in a sentence as an adjective

It withered on the vine and Steve Jobs simply took it off life support.

That requirement has been withered away in recent years, don't you think?

But when his $2,000 in savings withered to nothing, "I ended up sleeping on the street for the first time in my life," he said.

Reading this reminded me of 9rules[1], which used to be pretty popular some 8-10 years back but eventually withered away.

More like there you toil in the hot sun so that the crop on which your future survival depends doesn't become choked by weeds, devoured by pests, or withered from heat.

These days, most magazines have web sites -- in some cases, the paper appendix has withered away, or is not as current as the online version.

Here's a sample: "Due to his meager funds and general inability to budget himself, Tesla had but one suit, which had withered from use.

The organic, evolving web has survived and thrived while sanely-designed standards have withered and died.

So, there are a lot of grandmother's withs withered pensions and decimated savings outside of New York that are basically subsidizing all of this.

Many withered away in poverty, anonymity and alcohol.

And MVC was talked about a lot as a design pattern for Web apps before Struts was started - I remember we rolled our own rather nifty one in 2001 or so and failed to get our execs to open source it so it died when the team withered away after our acquisition.

On the contrary, it has happened, with unexpected consequences:...in little more than a single generation, this long relationship with nature has withered in a culture that finds Americans giving themselves up to the indoor ease of the technological way of life.

Withered definitions

adjective

lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair"

See also: shriveled shrivelled shrunken wizen wizened

adjective

(used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture; "dried-up grass"; "the desert was edged with sere vegetation"; "shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings"; "withered vines"

See also: dried-up sere sear shriveled shrivelled