| CE IV.ii.19 | [Adriana to Luciana, of Antipholus of Syracuse] He is deformed, crooked, old and sere |
| E3 I.ii.151 | [Countess to King Edward] The ground ... / Seems barren, sere, unfertile |
| E3 V.i.169 | [King Edward to Queen] all the peers in France / Shall ... weep out bloody tears / Until their empty veins be dry and sere |
| Mac V.iii.23 | [Macbeth to himself] my way of life / Is fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf [or: sere as (n.), withered state] |