Sentences with phrase «of shriveled»

«Another was from a family that had nothing but a basket of shriveled potatoes — that's what they were eating for dinner.»

The suspended apples were sort of shriveled and a little scary looking, and the whole shebang was very dark around the edges.

Sometimes I'm surprised there's anything left to wring out of this shriveled soul...

By July 1, investors must decide whether to stick with the fund, which has lost roughly 60 % over its life, or sell their stakes to a group of buyers for less than three - fourths of its shriveled value.

Then the stomach tends to kind of shrivel up.

And what of the shriveling peppers or the stalks from the broccoli?

The autumnal rusty - coloured leaves had mostly fallen, leaving great dark masses of shrivelled fruit exposed in the centre of each vine...

The flowers blossomed for more than a week, instead of shriveling 2 days after fertilization.

the science of shriveling.

I don't think so, but E3 and gamescom have become one blur of shrivelled eyeballs to me.

There are humorous photos of my shrivelled red face visiting Peggy's Cove in Nova Scotia and the Bay of Fundy.

Not exact matches

The drywall company he had owned and operated since he was 20 years old — employing dozens of people over decades of hard work — shriveled.

When citizens feel the loss of wealth due to these transfers to Germany's neighbors and due to rising inflation, domestic demand for consumer goods would «shrivel over the medium term.»

A glass of cold alcohol is not only less aromatic, but causes your taste buds to shrivel, like the littlest McArdle when one jumps into a cold lake.

But now, as energy companies vie to exploit vast reserves west of the Mississippi, fracking's new frontier is expanding to the same lands where crops have shriveled and waterways have dried up due to severe drought.

In contrast, the retailer's online sales plunged 12.5 % because of a botched site relaunch, making it one of the rare chains to see its digital business shrivel in this day and age.

Unlike many, however, the vehicle he staked his fortune on was virtually insolvent, a shriveling arm of a dying industry.

All that remained of one man was a shriveled foot, brought to the morgue wrapped in a dust - clogged jacket.

When we don't live in search of a truth that is «out there,» our experience of life can shrink and shrivel until we no longer feel capable of grappling with anything of transcendental import.

But beyond all debates about what caused the 2008 financial crisis, even during the prosperous years of the aughties a sense of unease was growing, a feeling that if this society was what triumph of global capitalism entailed, in which the small towns shriveled and most manufacturing went overseas, then maybe it wasn't a good thing.

the blackness of barren bellies, all that is shriveled, starved.

But in the context of this miracle, the leader appears silly and shriveled; being indignant at mercy and goodness looks ridiculous.

When our focus is distorted, we quickly become disconnected from the source of life and we shrivel like plants whose roots are injured.

Before us is the choice between succumbing to a fearful self - preoccupation that shrivels the spirit or heeding God's call to re-enter the pain of the world and the possibility of renewal and salvation.

By responding in any way to this flaccid little shrivel of a prayer pimp, you encourage it.

The dragon, with the hilt - cross of the sword protruding from its breast, shrivels, leaving only the cross and a black stain to mark the place of its death.

We shrivel and die for lack of feeling.

Nature is in fact always much richer and more complex than our imaginative and mathematical models, and we unduly shrivel our understanding of the cosmos if we equate it in a simple way with our scientific schemes.

In real life that comes down to asking what prosperous Americans will do in the presence of the bloated bellies and shriveling bodies of children whose helpless parents have only love but no food to offer them.

The worst victims shrivel our capacity for sympathy, since they have lost the last shred of dignity necessary to evoke the remnant of hope for realistic remedy.

In our present historical situation it is most urgent for the sake of preventing the shrivelling of the emerging pluralistic sense of the mystery of reality that religions resist the temptation to such retrenchment.

The ideology devoted to encouraging consumption wants to shrivel our imaginations so that we can not conceive of living in any way that would be less profitable for the dominant corporate structures.

Continually it was predicted and prophesied that we would surely shrivel up and die under the curse of Satan and the absence of the Spirit and the judgment of the Lord.

You want the tomatoes to be shriveled and dry, but with a little juice left inside — this could take more or less time depending on the size of your tomatoes.

Remove the shrivelled outer leaves (if any) and cut the tough ends off of the Brussels sprouts.

The only thing I wish I had done differently was let the caramel sauce cool just a little before pouring it over popcorn — I shriveled half of it up!

The meat of the tomato should shrivel but they will still be a bit liquidy.

Inca berries or golden berries, those shrivelled, orange - coloured fruits you see below, also go by the more common name of «physalis».

The cherry on top of your homemade ice cream creation doesn't have to be a sad shriveled maraschino.

Summer Heat to Shrivel French Wine Production: A long period of hot weather threatens to hit the wine harvest in France's famous Burgundy and Beaujolais regions, experts said on Tuesday

So I've been stumped as what to do with all the bunches of herbs I buy for particular recipes and they usually shrivel up or rot in a glass (mint looking very sad right now) but you have given me the answer!

The roasted kale, dried, shriveled and crispy, resemble the season's spent leaves, except that these are edible and nutritious; and I won't be collecting and pressing any of them under my heaviest atlas.

First off they all shrivel in size a bit, making them less daunting to eat, and second of all they will taste ah - mazing in any vegan quinoa bowl you make.

Roast 40 minutes until slightly shriveled and some of the juices are released.

Top with parmesan cheese and one last drizzle of oil before popping the whole thing into the oven for a 35 - 45 minute roast, or until the vegetables are fork tender and the tomatoes have shriveled up and browned to the point where you think you've gone horribly wrong.

It's happened to all of us: you get the cast iron hot, swirl in the oil, lay the chicken thighs skin - side down, and then: shriveling.

Poor temperature management and lack of control of relative humidity, leading to shriveling, wilting and deterioration of perishable foods.

I wanted to mention that I borrowed a technique from CooksIllustrated.com where the carrots (and shallots) roast tightly wrapped in foil for the first stint of their oven bake, which steams the carrots through, without drying them up to tiny little shrivels of their former selves.

You can leave the ripe ones on the plant but if it takes too long for the rest of them to ripen, the older pods will shrivel and dry up, rendering them useless for pickling.

Whether purchasing pumpkin seeds in bulk or in a packaged container, make sure that there is no evidence of moisture or insect damage and that they are not shriveled.