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Shrinking
"Shrinking" in a Sentence (12 examples)
The shrinking of the domestic market has been blamed on inflation.
She's no shrinking violet.
Cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Arctic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic, and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya.
The Japanese population is shrinking.
Many a wild flower formed by the Almighty Hand to be a perfumed goblet for the dew, felt its enamelled cup filled high with blood that day, and shrinking dropped.
The Arctic ice is shrinking because the ocean under the ice is warming.
"Ten days the seer, as shrinking to reply / or name a victim, did the doom withhold."
The Palestinian territory keeps shrinking and shrinking.
Tom is a shrinking violet.
Tom is a bit of a shrinking violet.
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[…] the silent grief beyond the power of words—the generous consolations of the noble sister—the shrinkings of the poor criminal, and his relapsings into a gentler penitence […]
The notion of a gently-nurtured girl being at the mercy of that fiend incarnate […] was one which caused me tangible shrinkings of the body.
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