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Example sentences for: withering

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Many of these regulations have come under withering scrutiny in recent years by right-wing think tanks, conservative editorial pages, and Republican members of Congress.
No serious student of history can afford to ignore these well-reasoned and withering reflections on the perils of pseudo-scholarship."
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.
Acclaimed as a "humane Diane Arbus" by a New York gallery owner (Lili Taylor) and assorted pompous critics and collectors, Pecker finds his haunts suddenly withering under the attention, his subjects demanding model fees, and his girlfriend (Christina Ricci), the compulsively by-the-book proprietor of a laundromat, fleeing his wealthy new cohorts for the safety of her suds.
With flora everywhere withering and browning, carefully tended, thriving marijuana plants stick out like sore green thumbs.