| The strawberries may have shrivelled up and the cream long since gone sour, but the action on the tennis courts is just hotting up. |
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| An open can of sardines lay half-buried within the ground, its contents long shrivelled up and well-decayed. |
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| The flesh of his face looked as if it had shrivelled up, then been stretched and stretched to barely cover his bony features. |
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| The wall, as if they were watching a speed-up of a wilting flower, shrivelled up and disappeared into the ground. |
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| After birth, the cord was cut, and where it was attached to your body it shrivelled up and formed a scar known as your belly button. |
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| Somehow, somewhere between Orchard Road, Raffles City and Chinatown markets my sense of financial responsibility lost its oxygen supply, shrivelled up and died discreetly. |
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| Fran also had a problem with her apricots which shrivelled up when they were very small and Geoff thought the really hot weather might have knocked them off. |
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| Venture funding has shrivelled up in America, and Europe is not doing much better. |
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| There's also fruit – oranges – they look pretty bad because they're kind of shrivelled up, but they smell amazing. |
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| Bodies were shrivelled up but skin pretty sound. |
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| I planted some runner beans last year and when they grew to about six inches they just shrivelled up and died. |
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| They are twisted and shrivelled up inside, consumed by resentment, corrupted by a news economy that profits from cutting successful women down to size. |
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