Sentences with phrase «shriveled as»

In the thin light his new body looks ridiculously narrow and soft, its skin beneath a pelt of hair as pale and shriveled as a molting nymph's.

Plums that are dried either via a fan, a food dehydrator or dried in the sun will not be as slimy looking nor will they be as shriveled as many commercially dried plums / prunes.

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Hotel and vacation rentals are higher - margin businesses than selling flights, as airline commissions have shriveled and carriers try to drive more traffic to their own websites, where they also offer co-branded credit cards and vacation packages.

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.

As the population plummeted, tax revenues dwindled and city coffers slowly shriveled.

As the financial crisis unfolded around him, even as his stock portfolio shriveled, he realized that steady income allowed him to qualify for loans that few others could geAs the financial crisis unfolded around him, even as his stock portfolio shriveled, he realized that steady income allowed him to qualify for loans that few others could geas his stock portfolio shriveled, he realized that steady income allowed him to qualify for loans that few others could get.

She enjoys picturing her offenders as shriveled in humiliation for their offenses against her.

Should not such as these, if by some freak chance they should ever overhear us, just quietly vomit once (had they anything in their shriveled bellies to expel!)

-LSB-...] It started out as about a cup's worth but shriveled down to what you see.

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!

Do not allow white potatoes to be stored in an overly warm area as they will shrivel and sprout.

Chipotle is a brown, shriveled, smoked dried jalapeno also known as chili ahumado.

I've read that sudden weaning can cause the breasts to shrivel and that slower weaning allows you to keep more of your mass, which makes no sense to me as breastfeeding involves the production of milk, not fat.

«I can look at these plants and know they don't have enough humidity,» Eysenbach said as she fingered an African lady fern with brown, shriveled leaves.

Before it falls off, make sure you keep the cord dry and clean as it shrivels up.

They generally have indeterminate gender characteristics such as ambiguous gonads, shrivelled testes or other developmental abnormalities.

Dunk cells in saltwater, and they shrivel up as the water inside them rushes out to dilute the salt outside.

As someone whose brain has shriveled at least one time, maybe twice (scientists don't know if the brain keeps getting smaller with subsequent pregnancies), I find it fascinating to think about this remodeling.

Looking for the roots of this sensory decline, German researchers at Ruhr University Bochum stumbled on a surprise: rather than shriveling up, the brain's sensory body map — which helps us discriminate Braille letters by determining where the raised bumps are in relation to one another — expands with age, exactly as it does during learning.

As the Pacific Plate moved over the Hawaiian hotspot and new islands formed and others shriveled away, these colorful songbirds evolved into more than 50 species that differed so much in what they ate, where they lived and how they looked that it took...

Among them was a South American man, observed by Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, who subbed as wet nurse after his wife fell ill as well as male missionaries in Brazil that were the sole milk supply for their children because their wives had shriveled breasts.

These water dwelling creatures can also survive dry environments in a shrivelled - up, dormant state for as long as a decade, reviving within an hour when exposed to water.

Muscles begin to shrivel and grow weaker with age, a condition known as sarcopenia.

I was under the impression listening to Nadine Artemis that glycerine of all kinds was not healthy as a topical skin care ingredient because it for example temporarily plumped and lubricated then ultimately has the opposite effects where it shrivels up skin.

As a result, he says, he is so well - hydrated that «even with adequate exposure to the sun, I won't get sunburned,» and he presumes that the muscles under his skin look like «beautiful tenderloins» instead of «shriveled jerky.»

These people never imagined that they would be dug up, their religion ridiculed as silly, and put on display in a glass case, so people can gawk at their shriveled bodies.

It can be a tough, pitiless, painful, heart - breaking, terrifying, apocalyptically awful experience that leaves your soul shrivelled and your emotions as though they've been in a blender.

The cells shriveled up as they lost water, and Kelly stated that she hoped that the students were remembering the simple simulation to help them understand why.

All across continental Europe overtaking is seen as practical and acceptable, while in Britain the hoards of dribbling, Daily Mail - reading halfwits in their miserymatic diesels regard it a reckless affront as offensive to their tiny, shrivelled minds as bad - mouthing Princess Diana or burning a National Trust tea towel.

And that that silly girl would give me this same mashed - down Himalayan hairdo and color my skin as dark as a Brokpa maiden's, so that now people would remember my face all wrong, like an old mango that had shrunk and shriveled?

Mother explains this as she takes out the shrivelled stems, throws away the smelly water, and stands up the fresh, smooth flowers.

As you focus on meeting your daily NaNoWriMo word count, your houseplants may begin to shrivel and dust bunnies may reproduce as fast as, um, actual bunnieAs you focus on meeting your daily NaNoWriMo word count, your houseplants may begin to shrivel and dust bunnies may reproduce as fast as, um, actual bunnieas fast as, um, actual bunnieas, um, actual bunnies.

I was really patient and waited until I thought Resolute traded down as low as it could go, only to see the share price shrivel considerably further as soon as I purchased a position.

As a result, yields shrivelled.

On x-rays or tummy palpation, your vet might describe the livers of a severely affected pet as smaller than it should be (= hypoplastic, shriveled / atrophied, shrunken, underdeveloped liver or liver atresia).

Legs III's empty nylons, hung high on the wall, can be seen as shriveled stand - ins for the reduced human body, while in Window Piece, fluid - blurred kitchen knives are directed at a cut - out figure of an entertainer, suggesting violence, albeit one tinged with absurdity.

Dr. Rignot recently proposed that unabated warming could result in three feet of global sea rise just from water flowing off Greenland, three feet from Antarctica and 18 inches as the remaining alpine glaciers shrivel away.

Meanwhile, the wildly complex interactions and interdependencies between climate and planetary life are revealing increasingly dire stakes, as global warming leads to the shriveling of biologically diverse — and carbon dioxide - absorbing — forests and wetlands, which in turn contributes to yet more warming.

They are real and were specially designed to let CO2 in, because as everyone knows, «CO2 is Life» and without it, we would simply shrivel up and die (or at least the Exxon - Mobil grant money would).

The race to capture West Virginia voters is unfolding as the coal sector, the state's main economic engine, is shriveling.

Where the water table is shallow — that is, where water saturates the soil at or near its surface, as in river valleys — the temperature rise of 2.5 C that Maxwell and Kollet test in the model is the main factor controlling whether the ground shrivels in the sun.

As house prices plunge and savings shrivel, divorcing couples are fighting over a shrinking cake.

Knowing my luck it would probably be twins as my shrivelled ovaries gave it one last shot.