Sentence examples for withering ground from inspiring English sources

After giving Capriati all she could handle in the opening set, Dokic began to falter under a withering ground assault.

But she could never break Williams's serve again and was broken three times under Williams's withering ground-stroke assault.

The drought withered grazing grounds, killed off young lambs and dried up irrigation ditches, and a glut of meat and imported lambs from New Zealand helped send prices plummeting.

An £80m "black hole" in the council's budget means that British astronomy will wither and ground-based study of space will die completely, says the Institute of Physics, a learned society.

Jolly Green 66 flown by Lt. Colonel Bill Harris followed, only to break through the low ceiling to face ten North Vietnamese tanks and a withering onslaught of ground fire.

The distance from the withers (shoulders) to the root (base) of the tail should be the same distance of the withers to the ground.[citation needed].

From the toil of reading or thinking or writing they had absolved their conscience, and the first shoots of learning and ingenuity withered on the ground.

*mean of indices of sire and dam The height was measured with a tape measure by recording the distance from the highest point of the withers to the ground following the chest contour.

The group inside the mansion fired at American troops with AK-47 assault rifles, but after four of his men were wounded the commander on the ground directed withering fire into the house.

But the foliage has black spot and withered leaves carpet the ground beneath the bushes.

The "stand your ground" defense withers when your victims are alive, and doubly fails when they serve as witnesses to a crime, living to tell the tale.