Sample Sentences fordesiccate (auto-selected)
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The desiccated bellows refilled, then pin-punctured the swamp air out in faint wails: (source)desiccated = dried out
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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)
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It's like jumping on a bird feather, or the dance of flatulent animals upon a desiccated brook. (source)
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What they dredged smoking out of the ground looked like some desiccated effigy from a tomb. (source)
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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)
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The country surrounding Davis Gulch is a desiccated expanse of bald rock and brickred sand.† (source)
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"Let Vitya handle it," he said, poking his shoe at a desiccated furball on the floor —dead mouse?† (source)
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For me, the most intolerable aspects are the spiritual monotony and desiccation.† (source)standard 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.
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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)
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He'd stumbled upon more than one desiccated corpse that had clearly been someone's dinner.† (source)
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Animal life wears a hard, dry skin or an outer skeleton to defy the desiccation.† (source)
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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)
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That his heart was shriveled, his organs desiccated.† (source)
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Sugar is the most desiccating of all salts; it sucks the liquids of the blood through the veins; hence the coagulation, and then the solidification of the blood; hence tubercles in the lungs, hence death.† (source)
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And Hightower leans there in the window, in the August heat, oblivious of the odor in which he lives—that smell of people who no longer live in life: that odor of overplump desiccation and stale linen as though a precursor of the tomb—listening to the feet which he seems to hear still long after he knows that he cannot, thinking, 'God bless him, God help him'; thinking To be young.† (source)
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Junk-food wrappers and diapers lie in the desiccated weeds on the side of the road.† (source)
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