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Example sentences for: withering

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Withering as Maren's anecdotal indictment is, he doesn't clinch the case for abolishing international assistance entirely.
Novelists Barbara Kingsolver and Kurt Andersen, the New York Times "Arts and Ideas" page, a private salon of left-leaning intellectuals, the entire city of Manhattan--all are treated with the same withering contempt.
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Campaigns are self-correcting: If Bradley gets close enough to be a real challenge to Gore, he will be subject to the same withering fire that Gore faces.
Having recently traveled to many of the places Applebome visited, I found his warm but withering portrait of Dixie to ring true.