Etiolate in a sentence as a verb

No reason to spend any more money on a boondoggle of a space truck, so now our best hope of resuming manned spaceflight rests with a couple of creepy, etiolated billionaires.

Entertainment reasons, though... I caught my wife teaching our not-yet-two-years-old daughter to use the word "etiolated" when referring to a green bean that was wilted and yellowish.

Etiolate in a sentence as an adjective

In any case you'd need longitudinal studies to properly evaluate any detrimental effects, given they are likely to be developmental in nature.> I think you have to possess a highly etiolated idea of what the human 'good' is ...Quite.

Etiolate definitions

verb

make weak by stunting the growth or development of

verb

bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight

verb

make pale or sickly; "alcohol etiolates your skin"

adjective

(especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light; "etiolated celery"

See also: etiolated blanched