Sentence examples for to withering from inspiring English sources
verb
To go against, resist; oppose.
The chief sub treated the subs to withering scorn.
Within minutes of the announcement, reporters were subjecting the deal to withering critique.
The move to Birmingham was suggested to Withering by Lichfield physician Erasmus Darwin.
To root out problematic behavior, employees are subjected to withering critiques from co-workers.
Disgruntled with his dead-end job, Jack can sometimes use this kind of data to withering effect.
The system has been subjected to withering criticism for decades, but the sugar lobby has clout on Capitol Hill.
Not every athlete is subject to withering questioning, but not many of them are in hot water.
If formulated differently, their abstract provisions could subject the inequalities and indignities of late capitalism to withering attack.
Already, Pakistan's president, Asif Ali Zardari, has been exposed to withering criticism at home for going on a trip to Europe during the early days of the flood.
The long-run result might be freedom for a select group of pious Americans while atheists and secularists are subject to withering regulation by the state.
There's Elise (Delphi Harrington), an imperious 90-year-old Hungarian-Jewish Holocaust survivor, given to withering assessments of anyone she deems boring.
