How to pronounce “withering” in English

You offer some pretty withering criticism in your book of people who just come in with an outside agenda into a local area and say, this is how it should be.

come under relentless scrutiny and withering attacks from the other side.

If you plant a healthy tree in a withering orchard, it's unlikely that that healthy tree

"Customers should be advised that they may be subject to withering looks and occasional condescending comments.

While Roosevelt's uh opinion of the League was withering.

It would be withering.

demand or require or entail that there is the usual intuitive idea of degradation, of withering away, of falling apart because you can have

Now this is hard because we are not as a species well equipped to subject our own beliefs to the kind of withering scrutiny that would tell us when our beliefs are wrong.

So it's just a new area that's-- a lot of journalism, as you know, is shrinking and withering right now, so it's kind of cool that this is a growth

It was 1777, a year after America had declared her independence from the British crown and only days after her lion-hearted general, George Washington, had suffered a withering

We're very good at subjecting other people's beliefs to withering scrutiny, right?

their most closely matched fellow aspirants. Wrestlers here, legacies there, Pakistanis to the right, woodwinds, novelists, witheringly brilliant mathematicians, faculty kids, staff