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• The freshly picked flowers will wilt in a few days but for now are still fragrant.From the entry freshly
• Plants wilt if they are not watered.From the entry they
• The wilted flowers emerged droopingly from their vase.From the entry droopingly
• Let that choilt a-be, wilt ta.From the entry a-
• If your plant is wilting, this could be another sign of overwatering or underwatering.2021 July 22, “Is Your Plant Overwatered or Underwatered?”, in Sustained Kitchen. From the entry underwater
• Actually, he probably could, but he stood up to the Government and ministers wilted and simply acquiesced.2020 July 15, Christian Wolmar, “J'Accuse...! A letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson”, in Rail, pages 50–51. From the entry stand up to
• Well spoken kitchenboy said Sir Kay, Thou wilt lose nothing for the asking.2010, David Staines, Tennyson’s Camelot. From the entry kitchenboy
• Classic, box-pleated skimmers and pantdresses stay crisp and fresh, won't wrinkle or wilt!1969, The New York Times Magazine (part 3). From the entry skimmer
• I will tell thee, albeit that I know thou wilt not understand me.1968 [1540], John Nevinson, transl., Raffella of Master Alexander Piccolomini: Or Rather, A Dialogue of the Fair Perfectioning of Ladies…. From the entry buffin
• More recently, sudden oak death, oak decline, beech wilt, sweet chestnut blight and horse chestnut canker have infested Europe’s forests.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 296. From the entry sudden oak death
• Wilt Chamberlain would be tearing it up.2013, Bobby "Slick" Leonard, Lew Freedman, Boom, Baby!: My Basketball Life in Indiana, →ISBN, page 118. From the entry tear it up
• Recovery from this extreme wilt began only in the early evening, but by dawn all plants were fully turgid and guttating.1999, Australian Journal of Plant Physiology. From the entry guttate
• It had a "wilted look" when I got done.1998 April 27, Joanne Dow, “Bad Blocks mapping and Low Level Format on HDs >4GB”, in comp.sys.amiga.hardware (Usenet), archived from the…. From the entry unladilike
• Therefore a parathion-treated upland pineapple orchard guarded with anticide throughout the growing seasons showed only negligible pineapple wilt infestation.1959, JCRR General Report, page 64. From the entry anticide
• I was feeling wilted and dry after some hours in the driving cab with the sun on it.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 192. From the entry bar parlour
• Grant what Thou dost command, and command what Thou wilt.1944, St. Augustine, translated by FJ Sheed, Confessions. From the entry will
• Have I not these four years past been as a brother unto thee, and wilt thou still be secret toward us?”1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 18. From the entry darken
• Symptom is stunting of plant, premature wilting of leaves, chlorotic stripes on young leaves, leaf purpling, excessive tillering and cobbing and formation of barren cobs.2020, A. Solaimalai, P. Anantharaju, S. Irulandi, Maize Crop. From the entry cobbing
• There he wilted, obviously depending the disposal of his person and his plight on Bradly, and expecting that to be done at once, too.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 65. From the entry depend
• When I was growing up, I was used to eating it chopped up in a soup, quickly wilted with lemon juice, or tossed into a salad.2016 August, Lucinda Scala Quinn, “Killer Salads”, in Mad Hungry Family: 120 Essential Recipes to Feed the Whole Crew, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry escarole
• The young men were in their shirtsleeves, with their collars open, and Miss Tillie was wilting in her chair, fanned by a twelvish black girl who looked unutterably bored.2005, Marie Jakober, Sons of Liberty, page 58. From the entry twelvish
• She could just imagine him wilting as Janice made insinuations about his boy-executive clothes, his Hyundai, the section of town he lived in, the school he had gone to.1991, Writing Center of New Mexico State University, Puerto Del Sol, volume 26, page 201. From the entry Hyundai
• Lolek, the market boy, a waterheaded child of five, crawled among the wilted cabbage leaves and dead-eyed fishheads nodding his monstrous head to the shrill voice of the nun.1988, Hart Wegner, Houses of Ivory, page 81. From the entry waterheaded
• The cooling palma christi leaves that Janie had bound about her grandma’s head with a white rag had wilted down and become part and parcel of the woman.1937, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 2, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, University of Illinois Press, published 1978, page 26. From the entry palma Christi
• An indication of its existence could be the fact that shortly after a strong infection of the leaves the entire plant subcombs in a rather rapid way by general wilting.1984, Tissue Culture of Plantain for Improving Yield Potential, page 46. From the entry subcomb

Meaning of wilt

1. verb To droop or become limp and flaccid (as a dying leaf or flower).
2. verb To fatigue; to lose strength; to flag.
3. verb To cause to droop or become limp and flaccid (as a flower).

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Questions about wilt in a sentence

How do you use wilt in a sentence?

Wilt is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The freshly picked flowers will wilt in a few days but for now are still fragrant.”

What is a short sentence with wilt?

“Let that choilt a-be, wilt ta.”

What does wilt mean?

Wilt means to droop or become limp and flaccid (as a dying leaf or flower).