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Sentence Examples If you wash and dry after sewing up, the material will shrink and the pieces will distort. Charlie seems to want to shrink into himself, fold over layer by layer, until he resolves into nothing. Around the room angry glares were thrown at Josh who responded by smiling bashfully and trying to shrink against the window pane behind him. But finally, the star may shrink in a way that the light cones will bend so much that they will not be able to escape. His psychological make-up would baffle Dr Jekyll, Mr Hyde and every Freudian shrink outside a Woody Allen movie. Although there will be enough capacity to satisfy demand next year, the excess of capacity over consumption will begin to shrink. Want to make a Mach 5 airplane, bridge the Bering Strait, shrink a chip by a factor of ten? Steps like these have helped it shrink its workforce through attrition, from a peak of 804,000 in 1999 to 701,000 today. He watched her in astonishment as she seemed to shrink into herself, and sank slowly onto the chair almost directly behind her. Unless these individual Muslims are very exceptional individuals they do as Smith did and shrink into themselves. He did not shrink from openly intervening in Irish, Filipino and other national politics to push for an abolition of the death penalty. It is incredible that they now shrink from removing a leader who nobody seems to think will win one. I would rather be defeated then shrink from the great issues, because from such defeats we rise again with twice as much strength. I encouraged people not to shrink in fear and self-protection, but be unusually visionary and ethical. Lela felt her face pale and her pupils shrink in fear, and she slowly put her project aside. Have we the moral courage to welcome it as an opportunity, or will we shrink back into fearing it as a threat? So, let's do everything we can to grow the economy and shrink the relative size of the deficit tumor. So the central problem is that we will shrink the workforce at the same time that we increase the number of people out of the workforce. You do not say why this chap mistrusts you, but if there is no reason you can think of, then you need a new best friend, and he needs a shrink. Today's new rich would not shrink from spending a few thousand bucks as bribes to short-circuit the queue. Show More Sentences It is possible that you are antisocial, misanthropic, or in need of a good shrink. Make two nested fields, then shrink the internal one to produce a Torricellian vacuum between the two fields. Smith also points out that the ratio of actual data with respect to metadata will continue to shrink. The way the cells are aligned will cause the quarter-sawn board to shrink a little bit in width and very little in thickness. Police forced people on the 500 block to the sidewalks several times in attempt to shrink and quell the crowd. The R14000 was a shrink of the 400MHz R12000 processor, which delivered two floating point operations per second or 800 megaflops of power. The race of plants, and the race of animals shrink under this great restrictive law. The primary problem I encountered was having the pastry shrink a considerable amount while baking them blind. It's a superwash wool and acrylic blend that I've used before, so I know it won't shrink. You know, the Jivaro believe that once they shrink their enemy's heads, the soul is trapped inside it. If the cancer has spread, treatment with chemotherapy or radiation therapy may shrink the tumor but not cure it. Palliative radiotherapy or chemotherapy may increase this risk by causing tumours to shrink. While this lead will shrink before polling day, you might think he'd be a tad complacent. During a recession, the increase in bankruptcies and the fall in asset prices shrink the asset bases of the banks. And over the next few years, as the costs shrink, wind machines will likely grow in number and in size. All the time Jeremiah talked, Mathias edged closer to the body, making the girl seem to shrink and wither before the size of him. This is because cotton denim has residual shrinkage and will continue to shrink with each successive wash. Also included are three lengths of shrink tubing to enclose the balun and hold it in place on the cable. People still shrink from the terrible word cancer, even if they themselves have not been diagnosed with this dread disease. Whatever sum you borrow, the amount the bank wants per month will shrink the more you postpone the date of final repayment. Show More Sentences You need to consult with a kiddie shrink who will convince your wife that youngsters who call the shots wind up in a not very good place. As conventional transistors shrink in size, they lose their ability to amplify signals, and thus their very status as transistors. Whether it's going off to college or dumping your shrink, I think that's part of the healthy growing process. Then the shrink starts on about how at first they thought psychology was important but now things are changing. With a good referral, you can get to a shrink with expertise in this area, and you'll be back in the boudoir in no time. To shrink the size of transistors on computer chips, semiconductor manufacturers are turning to shorter wavelength techniques. Manipulated to seek and destroy hardy cancer cells, viruses have been shown to shrink tumours in animal models and in early human studies. However, from the house to Oban on the mainland is a two-hour journey, which for some will be a major asset, although others may shrink in fear at the thought. Now collette isn't just playing a mentally ill woman, she's also playing her own shrink. Had he ever done something like in Newtown, every self-important shrink on TV would have claimed they'd have seen it coming. In fact, the fury she unleashed upon the itinerant priest who administered her last rites had sprung from the failure of his holy water to shrink the tumor in her gut. Republicans can change their brand, appeal to the electorate, shrink government, grow the economy, and save capitalism. The research claims that resistant starch foods also shrink fat cells, increase muscle mass, curb cravings, and keep people feeling full for longer. The width will grow and shrink as the browser window is resized. Jason's eyes flashed with anger, and I began to shrink inside myself. India and Pakistan will face a crisis as the glaciers that feed the Indus River shrink and disappear. Would she shrink from firing at a Serb setting off an artillery piece if he had eyebrows like Katarina Witt? The department's aim is to shrink the window of opportunity for crime through measures such as personal safety talks, partnership working and Neighbourhood Watch schemes. Her magical ability to shrink people just by staring at them is also put to great use here. The underlying economic factors that cause deficits to shrink often create circumstances that push them to shrink even faster. Show More Sentences The bank expects to write off massive amounts of money as bad debt from its loan book value and shrink its asset base after correct recalculation of the loans. Diverting water from the Nile River, along with buildup of sediments trapped behind dams and barrages, has caused the fertile Nile Delta to shrink. A good shrink might argue, for example, that Scots seem not to like themselves very much, at least if their self-destructive streak is anything to go by. Composite cavity-filling materials today have a tendency to shrink and even leak over time as the polymer cracks due to the stresses and becomes more rigid as it sets. This work offers the potential to shrink accelerators from miles to meters in length and open a range of new applications, from medicine to high-energy physics. If shoes are wet, dry them with indirect heat rather than under radiators, which may negatively impact the midsole or shrink other materials on the shoe. From Poor Richard to Dale Carnegie to Tony Robbins, we love the idea that we can fix what's broken by ourselves, without the expensive ministrations of doctor or shrink. The legs of this diode are covered in heat shrink to prevent shorting out. Of course he also brought a determination to rebuild the U.S. Military, to cut taxes, to shrink the size of government and he went right to work to do all these things. Clothes will shrink upon wish granting, but they never stretch. While other big cities see their populations shrink, foreigners are moving in to the capital and boosting the population and it is changing the social and economic landscape. Claire wanted to shrink back in fear, she never saw anyone look so upset. In a species as hungry for social interaction as ours, a trait that causes some individuals to shrink from the group ought to have been snuffed out pretty early on. With the arrival of the train, the journey from Lhasa to Shigatse would shrink from five hours of driving over terrain to two hours by rail. If they run short of food, they first stop producing eggs and sperm, and then shrink in size. Prescription drugs couldn't shrink the swollen tissue and nasal polyps, a benign form of tumor, that clogged his sinus passages. Well, one should be able to make the new iPad Mini at home if one had a shrink ray gun, but for the rest of us www. This climate change caused lakes and rivers to shrink significantly and caused increasing desertification. Of course, there are micromanaging control freaks who should probably see a shrink. It includes significant areas of gilgai microrelief, which is produced in clay soils that shrink and swell with changes in moisture content. Show More Sentences All beaches grow and shrink depending on tides, precipitation, wind, waves and current. I have not the heart to tell him how the bibliopolar world shrink from his Commentary. I can make neutrons dance to a new tune, but I shrink from telling a human tick to fasten onto someone else. Even as we cheer for her stamina, we shrink from her rapacity. On his adventures Link discovers the Minish Cap, which gives him the power to shrink himself, effectively opening up another world to explore. Most shrink labels are plastic sheets that are formed into tubes, or sleeves, by the use of a seaming machine. Glaciers grow and shrink due both to natural variability and external forcings. I do not shy away from the sinister horseshoe crab, nor do I shrink from the slimy foot of the moon snail. With his reputation on the line, Gru plots to steal the Moon using a shrink ray gun from Vector's laboratory. Neoadjuvant therapy also may shrink inoperable tumors enough to make surgery possible. The other is the fact that the population of Japan has begun to shrink, the result of years of subreplacement birth rates. By 1921 the coal mines were employing 250,000 men, but this was the peak and in subsequent decades the overseas market began to shrink. During this period the antidisestablishmentarian party continued to shrink and became increasingly alienated. Pull up the sleeving along the cable, including the copper wire, then using a cigarette lighter heat the sleeving to make it shrink. He argued cuttingly, his biting satire did not shrink at insults, and his expressions could be rude and cruel. A Edge retraction is a surface tension driven flow effect that causes the still liquid paint to shrink away from edges as the paint cures. If the economy nosedives, and housing starts drop significantly, the profits in timber will dry up and the industry will shrink accordingly. Cameron had a mandate for his austerity policies to shrink the size of government, and a challenge in dealing with Scotland. I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room. These mechanisms simply rearrange matter inside of porosity and do not cause pores to shrink. Show More Sentences This proved to be the case and, from 1948 the Danish population began to shrink again. In the winter, the pads shrink and tighten, exposing the rim of the hoof, which cuts into the ice and crusted snow to keep it from slipping. The low fat content of turkey bacon means it does not shrink while being cooked and has a tendency to stick to the pan. In the Devonian Period, Gondwana itself headed towards Euramerica, causing the Rheic Ocean to shrink. Oil-producing glands called meibomian glands shrink a little, so you wind up with less oil on the front surface of the tear film. To my mind, those who thus shrink afford thereby but evidences of their psychological enthralldom. I need some sort of cutting utensil to get through this shrink wrap. They said that radiofrequency ablation, a procedure that uses heat to shrink the tissue of the soft palate, could be an effective treatment option for snoring. In my little hamlet along the Schoharie, summertime visitors clamber over rocks to float in the dwindling swimming holes, which shrink as the summer heat intensifies. The laser stimulates new collagen and remodels scar tissue so stretchmarks shrink and smooth out, although expect an improvement rather than outright cure. Upping the alloy's overall fraction of tungsten forces the brick size to shrink to provide additional room for the big atoms in the mortar, Schuh says. One side makes her shrink smaller than ever, while another causes her neck to grow high into the trees, where a pigeon mistakes her for a serpent. Marianne Sadar of the BC Cancer Agency in Vancouver, Canada, has used an experimental drug adapted from sea sponges to shrink cancer tumors in mice. This seemingly causes a violation of the second law of black hole mechanics, since the radiation will carry away energy from the black hole causing it to shrink. There's also a Karlville shrink sleeve seemer and a Karlville sheeter. A forming and seaming machine manufactures a continuous tube of shrink sleeves for labels delivered in reels for automatic application on the final product. The goal was to shrink the processing time from beginning to end, said David Donner Chait, policy associate with the SBA's Office of the Administrator. Scientists suggest that climate change during the end of the Pleistocene caused the mammoths' habitat to shrink in size, resulting in a drop in population. Examples from Classical Literature Nietzsche did not shrink from any of the inferential conclusions logically to be drawn from the biologic argument. If you put the syrup hot to the ginger at first, it will shrink and shrivel. The sundered flakes of crimson twist and turn, they shrink, yet do not flee. And then, finally, the poet does not shrink from the last and grimmest reality. This is the melancholic temperament, which does not shrink from the most profound inquiry. And so there she was, shrunk just as short as she had been ordered to shrink, fitting into her coffin as cozily as you please! Now I'm moving forward in time for a thousand years, and beginning to shrink, to grow heavier and to crystallise! Scarce half a twelvemonth elapsed, ere the retiring disposition of Malinda Jane seemed to shrink into even greater seclusion. Olive looked at him uncomprehending, but he seemed to shrink from her observation. If he broaches a subject on which you have a real and deep living interest, you shrink from unbosoming yourself to him. We did not dawdle over his affairs, nor did we shrink from any work to which he challenged us. They scarcely shrink from any business on account of its magnitude, its arduousness, or its hazard. The Saseanian reliefs need not on the whole shrink from a comparison with those of the Achaemenian Persians. These pustules may either break through the skin or shrink into a caseous mass. Can you not conceive the fear that was in me that you should shrink away from me in loathing? He was conscious of no wrong, and he did not shrink as though he had committed one. These keloid scars shrink and whiten in the course of a year or eighteen months. And Sonny, heartsore and bewildered, would shrink back hopelessly to his kennel. There are not a few for whom the mystery is repellent, who shrink from it as from hermaphroditus. And yet, though I shrink from the idea of fighting, I might in some way help those who are. Show More Sentences Does his soul expand in the winter, or does it shrink like frostbitten fruit? Their fleece is a fine silky hair, making fine blankets that will not shrink, but not good for fulled cloths. It was partly this that made Shelley shrink with loathing from the furioso. The other elements of the wood shrink radially and tangentially, but almost none lengthwise or vertically as applied to the tree. Why shrink from us, then, as though we were the spawn of the Evil One? Before the revelations of the soul, Time, space and Nature shrink away. I haven't any nerves, thank goodness, but your music makes my cotton shrink. He saw the man's eyes catch fire, the muscles of his face twitch, he saw Ernestine shrink back, white with terror and the man followed her. You may have caulked these areas before winter started but even good quality caulk can shrink, harden and crack during harsh weather. It was such a tone, loose, harsh and uncontrolled, as made Flora shrink. Yet even now they seemed to shrink from the creation of an antipope. It then begins to shrink and contract with the greatest uniformity. Already a mood of much daylight was making him blink and shrink. This was said because the delicate ever shrink from affixing a value to the time and services of others. Yet I shrink from them, from their curious glances, their inquiries and assistance, and long to be away from them and alone. While America rebuilds at home, we will not shrink from the challenges nor fail to seize the opportunities of this new world. Should he shrink from the duties of life, into the cowardliness of death? The professor seemed to shrink back in his chair, collapsing like an automobile tire when the air is let out. They shrink by an ungovernable instinct, as they would shrink from laceration. Nioche was a singular compound, which I shrink from the attempt to reproduce in its integrity. Show More Sentences How could she shrink from the blessedness of dispensing the divine mercy? The evening curfew is rung on a rota basis by six young members of the Morpeth Clock Tower Bell-Ringers, but their numbers are set to shrink. It appeared as if the delicate and sensitive form of Alice would shrink into itself, as she listened to this proposal. She stood well in the shadow, seeming rather to shrink from than to court attention. It will tend to shrink back a little as it rests, so just carry on stretching the dough until it's approximately 22 x 33cm after shrinkage. Shinzo Abe is among those Japanese politicians who leap forward when they see an opportunity, and shrink back when they face pressure. But instead of going for the jugular, we seemed to shrink back into our shell and pretty soon afterwards gave the initiative away. After ovulation, rising levels of progesterone cause the gyri to shrink back. The only thing indeed that in this early outlook might have made me shrink again was the clear circumstance of her being so glad to see me. The mowld o' the churchyard don't hold any that the folk shrink away from, more. I saw a shrink twice a week as part of my deal at the halfway house. You shrink from the hards of life which I steer happily through. They perfectly recollected Mr. hayward, and seemed to shrink from him. Perhaps it was this very severity towards any indulgence of what she held to be sinful regret in herself, that made her shrink from applying her own standard to her husband. When it connects, he feels the lamb shrink back into his hand. He got his satchel from the buggy and, opening it, took out two deadly looking revolvers that made the children shrink back in alarm just to look at. What's more, muscles atrophy, or shrink dur to lack of use, in space. And now I hope you will not shrink from incurring a certain amount of jealousy and dislike from your professional brethren by presenting yourself as a reformer. It was one of Norah's peculiarities to shrink from all reconciliations that were openly ratified, and to take her shy refuge in reconciliations that were silently implied. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of shrink? Words that rhyme with shrink What is the past tense of shrink? What is the plural of shrink? What is the adverb for shrink? What is the adjective for shrink? What is the noun for shrink? Translations for shrink Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words shrines shrine shrimpy Shrimps shrimps shrimplike shrinkable shrinkage shrinked shrinker shrinking shrinkingly 6-letter Words Starting With s sh shr shri shrin