desiccatein a sentence
-
•
What could be torn by the small scavengers was torn; the maggots had done their work on the organs, now it was a desiccated mummy, hollowed-out, teeth in a rigid grin, eyes empty, fingers curled. (source)desiccated = dried out
-
•
What they dredged smoking out of the ground looked like some desiccated effigy from a tomb. (source)
-
•
The desiccated bellows refilled, then pin-punctured the swamp air out in faint wails: (source)
Show 3 more sentences
-
•
It's like jumping on a bird feather, or the dance of flatulent animals upon a desiccated brook. (source)
-
•
A few shrivelled and blackened vestiges of what had once been stuffed animals, desiccated mummies in jars that had once held spirit, a brown dust of departed plants: (source)
-
•
The country surrounding Davis Gulch is a desiccated expanse of bald rock and brickred sand.† (source)
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 3 word variations
-
•
Some of the seeds lie dormant in the desiccated earth for decades, waiting, and when the water finally comes home again, they burst through the soil, unfolding their faces.† (source)desiccated = dried out
-
•
For me, the most intolerable aspects are the spiritual monotony and desiccation.† (source)desiccation = the act of removing moisture fromstandard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
-
•
THE SUN BLAZED ACROSS THE SKY each afternoon, scorching the mountain with its arid, desiccating heat, so that each morning when I crossed the field to the barn, I felt stalks of wild wheat crackle and break beneath my feet.† (source)desiccating = removing moisture from
-
•
The grounds were derelict, the gardens overgrown; the conservatory was a wreck, with broken panes of glass and desiccated plants, still in their pots.† (source)desiccated = dried out
-
•
Animal life wears a hard, dry skin or an outer skeleton to defy the desiccation.† (source)desiccation = the act of removing moisture from
-
•
Walk into any of a hundred thousand classrooms today and hear the teachers divide and subdivide and interrelate and establish "principles" and study "methods" and what you will hear is the ghost of Aristotle speaking down through the centuries...the desiccating lifeless voice of dualistic reason.† (source)desiccating = removing moisture from
-
•
Edgar turned for one last look at the desiccated barn, then clapped his leg and they ducked into the gap between two infinitely receding rows of sunflower stalks.† (source)desiccated = dried out
-
•
The desiccation practices of jockeys were lampooned by turf writer Joe H. Palmer in a column written on jockey Abelardo DeLara: "DeLara has to sweat off about two pounds a day to make weight.† (source)desiccation = the act of removing moisture from
-
•
Her ambitions had shrunk gradually in the desiccating air of failure.† (source)desiccating = removing moisture from
-
•
"Let Vitya handle it," he said, poking his shoe at a desiccated furball on the floor —dead mouse?† (source)desiccated = dried out
▲ show less (of above)