Example sentences for: wilting

How can you use “wilting” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • At an altitude of more than 640 meters (2,100 feet), this city on the Castilian plateau, Europe’s highest capital, is scorching in summer, when wilting residents flee for the coast or cooler northern climes, and freezing in winter, when many Madrileños bolt for the Sierra Nevada, just a couple hours south, to ski.

  • As a ferocious skinhead in last year's American History X , Norton was taut and ropy, his long torso curled into a sneer; here, he's skinny and wilting, a quivering pansy.

  • Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show ) as Hopkins' milksop son-in-law and Marcia Gay Harden as his party planning, perpetually wilting elder daughter.


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