1. Katherine looked briefly and witheringly at Charley Lynch.

2. Guns fired witheringly at the railroad cars.

3. From across the desk she gave him a witheringly imperious look.

4. Danny Sullivan, a respected expert on search engines, for example, posted a witheringly sarcastic comment on his site. "I did a search at Google today for 'cars' and was shocked, " he wrote.

5. I heard my husband querying in my mind contemptuously, witheringly.