Shrivelled used in a sentence

Shrivelled in a sentence as an adjective

If you control it too much, a shrivelled rag will pop out without any extra body fat.

The issue is that these companies were doing really well, got acquired as a result, but then mostly shrivelled to nothing.

The entire thing rests on the assumption that there's a class of investments that people would refuse to invest in if left to their own devices, but which suddenly become attractive only if their savings are shrivelled by a few percent a year.

> The entire thing rests on the assumption that there's a class of investments that people would refuse to invest in if left to their own devices, but which suddenly become attractive only if their savings are shrivelled by a few percent a year.

I don't doubt that there must have been some dodgy dealings going on when the Government suddenly started handing out bailouts... but is it really necessary to focus the story on a few players and be sure to let us know that a certain CEO is a shrivelled old prune and that his wife is a hot blonde?

Because half-a-dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate *****, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that of course they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.