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    Use "wizened" in a sentence

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    wizened


    1. the wizened and leathery Marchese


    2. And yet, before surrendering myself to the unknown, I wanted to walk along the sand with half-closed eyes and let the cooling waves wash my tired feet, to fill my palms and contain some of that wrinkled and wizened sea, and leave my footprints there with no others in sight


    3. They had a kind of wizened delicacy like the beauty of some of the old people I'd seen in the villages


    4. So deep, that when I finally release you, you will be a wizened old crow


    5. Several other soldiers made a feeble effort to aid him, but their wizened and frail frames added little resistance


    6. She was propped up in bed and looked washed out a wizened look had come to her face now which was just a pale yellow in colour


    7. ” I looked at the little wizened figure in the bed and picked up her tiny hand and kissed it was dry and rough and so hot it felt like she was on fire


    8. And there, sitting just to the side of the fire, was a tiny Halfling, a wrinkled little thing, as his face and hands were all wizened with age, save for a scrubby beard and a soft cap on his head


    9. "That's it, isn't it?" Uncle Hobart's shoulders slumped and he took another pull from his flask, suddenly looking small and wizened


    10. A wizened old man was hunched over an over-sized book, while around him an assortment of various books, scrolls and maps lay strewn around at random; candles had been lit and left in precarious positions with or without holders, hot wax dribbling profusely

    11. The boy was looking intently at the face of the wizened old man, when Celia spoke without a trace of warmth in her voice:


    12. She squinted her eyes as she directed a gaze that seemed to bore through the old man’s wizened face with ease, her accusing voice ringing around the cramped study with the authority of a mythical maiden of wrath:


    13. Lida was a mite of ten and looked younger, because she was such a small, wizened little creature


    14. Carr's wizened, nut-cracker little face at the appearance of that reviving eel--he saw her sailing witch-like over the buggy wheels


    15. Then a smile began to appear on his wizened old face once more, and he said, “But he can


    16. The wizened old bush hadn’t a clue what he was talking about


    17. Suddenly Martha boomed, “Miriam! The title is thrusting manhood, not wizened worm! Don’t insult the model!” The room erupted in laughter


    18. It is a foul and lurid place I dimly saw by crescent moon, entangled in a web of trees appearing more like wizened claws


    19. The glare of the gem dazzled their eyes, so that they could not be sure of what they saw; but with a splintering crash, the carven lid of the sarcophagus burst outward as if from some irresistible pressure applied from within, and the four men, bending eagerly forward, saw the occupant—a huddled, withered, wizened shape, with dried brown limbs like dead wood showing through moldering bandages


    20. "Ten miles a day," he cried, the wizened face breaking into a gummy grin

    21. The wizened little man pictured himself as quite the stud, so to uphold this ideal he conned a doctor friend into providing the hormone, human chorionic gonadotropin, plus instructions and paraphernalia for its use


    22. He vaguely recalled his father's mother, a wizened little woman who lived in a cottage overlooking the St


    23. He would have become disenchanted with the ways of the media and, ironically, teach these same ways to undergrads with the added spin of his wizened experience and jaded wit


    24. I saw that John2 also learned that he would have become a writer in either probability, but through a different path: He would have become disenchanted with the ways of the media and, ironically, teach these same ways to undergrads with the added spin of his wizened experience and jaded wit


    25. The wizened, old crone's eyes widened with excitement


    26. I followed Mark’s wild pointing to a wizened old git in a fez standing next to a square box on trestles made up of rows of tiny drawers, atop of which sat the ‘cute’ white rabbit in question


    27. Behind me sat Old Red Hawk, a wizened old man with long, white hair, and milky white cataracts in both eyes that stared blindly ahead


    28. The wizened old man moved around


    29. It was the wizened old man


    30. The Grand Wizard was standing just a few feet away, a confident grin on his wizened face

    31. She looked at the wizened old lady with the kindest eyes she had ever seen twinkling amid the lines of her face


    32. wizened image of the woman continued


    33. A pair of wizened Druids tended to her battered body


    34. came from a man whose wizened face was even more lined and haggard than in recent press


    35. preted as inevitably trapped, wheezed from the suddenly wizened TG


    36. With his long beard, pipe and keen smile, Jimmy had a similarly wizened look


    37. Grandpa was the only one who ever used the name, and Stacey always used to feel special as “Bup” working side by side with the wizened old man


    38. They were deep eyes in a wizened face with a fleshy nose


    39. They were barely inside when a wizened stooped old woman tottered over to them, dripping in


    40. Wrapped in the shawl, she must have been warm in the early morning sun, but she looked cold and wizened

    41. He prowled the courtyard, skewering loose papers with a deadly trident, occasionally bending to tug an errant weed from a plot or twist off some wizened bloom that had given up the fight for prolonged survival


    42. But in all other aspects, his appearance was like every other Vasudev, his hair snowy white and his face wizened with age


    43. wizened little man dressed in green clothing


    44. found was a wizened corpse seated on a wooden box


    45. in the wizened master's voice, but there was no mirth either


    46. "We pitched our tents in a shallow, semi-exposed trench in the middle of a wind-blown alpine meadow, in the shelter of some wizened alder thickets


    47. Nancy turned and looked into the wizened face of a


    48. The wizened up little pirate called Swogs was pushed forward through the curious group of onlookers


    49. The mother gave an obligatory passing smile to the wizened old man in the


    50. His wizened face broke into a broader smile, and the three young ladies laughed in musical echo to his pleasantry, swaying their bodies to and fro, with nervous jerks of their shoulders















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    Synonyms for "wizened"

    shriveled shrivelled shrunken withered wizen wizened

    "wizened" definitions

    lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness