6 example sentences using withering.
Withering used in a sentence
Withering in a sentence as a noun
The room went quiet, and my boss shot me \n a withering look.
No one under the age of 18 that I talked with has any idea that this movie is a "withering criticism of where we are".
He had written a couple of withering status / strategy updates to them while we were losing our contracting clients, so nobody was surprised in the end.
Withering in a sentence as an adjective
The smug, withering, contempt of news writers in twenty years will be something to behold: how could those primitives allow themselves that awful road carnage for so long?
There is no right answer to the debate between being there as long as you can for them and not wanting to have them experience their parents withering away and dying, entirely helpless.
The university declined, knowing that the requisite environmental impact study for relicensing would bring withering community backlash.
Withering definitions
any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use)
See also: atrophy
wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction; "possessing annihilative power"; "a devastating hurricane"; "the guns opened a withering fire"
See also: annihilative annihilating devastating
making light of; "afire with annihilating invective"; "a devastating portrait of human folly"; "to compliments inflated I've a withering reply"- W.S.Gilbert
See also: annihilating devastating