USATODAY. com - Kenyans sweep Boston Marathon in wilting heat.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Kenyans sweep Boston Marathon in wilting heat] Reference

This isn't the first time we've seen this kind of wilting of White House officials under pressure from the political right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Potok: Shirley Sherrod and the Right: A Day That Will Live in Infamy] Reference

Kenyans sweep Boston Marathon in wilting heat.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Kenyans sweep Boston Marathon in wilting heat] Reference

Help for homeowners wilting under subprime mortgages.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2007] Reference

Or this one, that seems to be wilting before your eyes?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 21, 2006] Reference

My white phalaenopsis is wilting, so he rushed right over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Dedicated Doctor] Reference

I was going blind and hungry, and I was wilting by the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tofino] Reference

The wilting of the leaves is the first sign of the trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference

In Iraq, meanwhile is the coalition of the willing -- wilting?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 21, 2007] Reference

The little mountain blossom was wilting and fading slowly away.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference

And it keeps the plants from flower -- cut flowers from wilting.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 22, 2007] Reference

Either way, she looked out of place among the wilting perennials.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rocky Mountain Highs--And Lows] Reference

 He told of the wilting heat, the fulgent landscape, the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ain't Comin' Back] Reference

It never took kindly to us and started wilting on the second day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 16, 1917] Reference

We're wilting under the heat, and we've sort of lost our way here.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 8, 2007] Reference

But the cabbages are wilting; the apples still wear their stickers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Haute Cuisine Heats Up] Reference

The flowers on one side of my yard are wilting, the Lavatera is dry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proposal] Reference

The girl's slender shoulders were wilting with incalculable fatigue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference

I can't stand to see anything wilting or dying, so I took care of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Dedicated Doctor] Reference

Again was the enemy routed; but again came the wilting-time of dire want.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 15, 1917] Reference

Surely the wilting flowers meant something was wrong with the beloved rulers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Begonia {part one}] Reference

GRACE: Yes, that 16-year-old girlfriend, she ` s such a sweet, wilting flower.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 15, 2008] Reference

Their three young daughters were with them, wilting in the heat of the parking lot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wajahat Ali: Fighting Wells Fargo and Foreclosure] Reference

Suddenly the hot wilting silence around the house was shattered by a thunderous roar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Revolt on Venus] Reference

Sadr, said to be in his 30s, appeared energetic despite the already wilting Iraqi heat.    From Wordnik.com.  [He's Back] Reference

By the time Wolff describes paratroop training, his youthful resolve is already wilting.    From Wordnik.com.  [He's In The Army Now] Reference

The wilting sunflower, the perception of the world for those who have only seen suffering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Muted Corners] Reference

She repeats these spare lines like a mantra in a weary, wilting voice that cuts to the core.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucinda Straight Up] Reference

Vasquez has a small stand with fresh bananas, tomatillos, prickly pears and some wilting chilis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The State Of Mexico's Increasingly Brutal Drug War] Reference

After wilting a little on the ground, it is dried on sticks, by one of the three processes called.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860] Reference

Look over the seedling cabbages carefully and destroy all which show any sign of wilting or rotting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916] Reference

The two straighten, then bow, then sit up, ocular level again, she pounces, wilting him at the levator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kissing Cobras] Reference

Because there was dirt on my car seat for weeks, a flower wilting on the kitchen table for days, I remembered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Because there was dirt on the car seat] Reference

He was still present in our conversation, as we stared at the green paper wilting where it remained on the woodgrain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just leave it and get out.] Reference

In general, if produce is wilting or discolored, better avoid it -- but that can be a hard call to make through plastic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lazy Man's Leafy Greens] Reference

Not wilting pitifully onto a milk-covered floor, like the doomed character in Kramer's devastating AIDS play "The Normal Heart.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Angry Prophet Is Dying] Reference

The Columbus Dispatch did a rather substantive piece this weekend asking, "as governor, who'd best nurture Ohio's long-wilting economy?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ted Strickland: Defender of the Status Quo] Reference