How To Use Shrink from In A Sentence
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Once Washington volunteered to lend both his services and his prestige to leading the Continental Militia (and later national Army), he did not shrink from the hardship, nor the task ahead.
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We must not shrink from the legitimate use of force if we are to remain credible.
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They did not shrink from doing what was right.
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We thrive on the superficial barb, and shrink from the deeper, more complex, less titillating ambiguities of an issue.
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Mankind censure injustice, fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from commintting it.
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Goldman's move severs one of its last links to the financial crisis, which saw the ranks of big standalone U.S. investment banks shrink from five to zero in the space of six months.
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But we don't shrink from a fight here at MTV News so we're endeavoring to settle the argument once and for all.
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The home actually has 1,500 square feet of living space, in line with a trend toward "rightsizing" homes that saw average floor area of newly built home shrink from 2,629 to 2,438 square feet in the last quarter of 2008.
Tiny Greenwich Village home makes the most of minimal space
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The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
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We naturally shrink from the thought of death, and of its attendant circumstances; but all that is hateful and fearful about it will be fulfilled in our case, one by one.
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Romney "used a term earlier that - that I shrink from, and it's one that I don't think we should be using as Republicans: 'middle class,'" Santorum said during the nationally televised debate at the Dana Center at St. Anselm College.
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We made it clear to them that we would not shrink from confrontation.
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The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
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The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
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The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
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Tiberius did not shrink from annexing dependent monarchies: Germanicus took over Commagene and Cappadocia, which made it possible to halve the Roman sales tax.
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We shall not shrink from making any sacrifice to guard and protect every inch of our beloved motherland.
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In identifying and responding to real needs he did not shrink from touching the painful spots.
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Capote doesn't shrink from exploring the brutality of the killers, but he also forces us to consider their wounded humanity.
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By the middle of the nineteenth century, the unquestioned assumptions that once did not shrink from employing children as young as six came to a stop.
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We made it clear to them that we would not shrink from confrontation.
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Be prepared. If you shrink from the full message, or if your unrehearsed, off-the-cuff remarks sound disrespectful, then you'll undermine your case.
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Even forgetting that it were not lawful for Philosophy to leave companionless the way of the innocent, should I, thinkest thou, fear to incur reproach, or shrink from it, as though some strange new thing had befallen?
Consolation of Philosophy
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We will not shrink from making the necessary changes in policy.
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He allows his lines freedom to expand and shrink from their pentameter norm to accommodate his shifts of style and tone.
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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.
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The word cadet, having a foreign smack and an innocent native meaning, is preferred to the more accurate procurer; even prostitutes shrink from the forthright pimp, and employ a characteristic American abbreviation, P.
Chapter 4. American and English Today. 5. Expletives and Forbidden Words
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The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
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We thrive on the superficial barb, and shrink from the deeper, more complex, less titillating ambiguities of an issue.
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Las Casas did not shrink from even that challenge.
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I would rather be defeated then shrink from the great issues, because from such defeats we rise again with twice as much strength.
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Santorum scolded Romney for using the term in a recent debate: The governor used a term earlier that I shrink from.
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A fine piece of a decollated head of St. John the Baptist was shown to a Turkish emperor; he praised many things, but he observed one defect; he observed that the skin did not shrink from the wounded part of the neck.
On Taste. Introductory Discourse
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There are times when life is full of roseate light, and we choose the Cross; at other times, when the sky is grey, we shrink from it.
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As we have already noted, he may well have been a militant nationalist who did not shrink from violence.
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Not surprisingly, bank managers might shrink from using financial futures to conduct macro hedges for this reason.
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While governments elsewhere tend to shrink from legislating higher fuel costs, Beijing may not be as reluctant.
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It is incredible that they now shrink from removing a leader who nobody seems to think will win one.
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Stiegler does not shrink from this difficulty.
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He displays the inherent decency of many, but does not shrink from the violence and criminality of others.
The Times Literary Supplement
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He dines with me and half-a-dozen English to-day; and I have not the heart to tell him how the bibliopolar world shrink from his
Life of Lord Byron With His Letters And Journals
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The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
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When she was younger she would shrink from me whenever I spoke to her.
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He did not shrink from openly intervening in Irish, Filipino and other national politics to push for an abolition of the death penalty.
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Life is a precious gift from God, and no one has a right to risk his life in a rash foolhardiness, which is very different from the true courage which does not shrink from facing danger if the life of one more helpless than himself is in peril.
Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation
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He was touched by the simple self-respect that would not let her suffer from what was not wrong in itself, but that made her shrink from a voluntary semblance of unwomanliness.
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We must not shrink from the legitimate use of force if we are to remain credible.
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We must not shrink from the legitimate use of force if we are to remain credible.
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Mankind censure injustice, fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from commintting it.
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Mankind censure injustice, fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from commintting it.
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Then the facts are burst upon them, and they shrink from their husbands in loathing and horror.
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Then driftingly came the thought that she would not shrink from Wade's reading her mind.
The Mysterious Rider
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The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
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She was quite sure that she felt no desire to shrink from duty, however humble, but she sighed for some comforting assurance of what _was duty_.
The Angel over the Right Shoulder The Beginning of a New Year
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She would shrink from that sort of exploitation.
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I think she - she's the type of person who has a lot of opinions, has a lot to say and certainly wouldn't shrink from writing it.
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To lead the flight two aged guides are we; my care is centred on these boys, while she, I mean Alcmena, clasps her son's daughter in her arms, and bears her for safety within this shrine, for we shrink from letting tender maidens come anigh the crowd or stand as suppliants at the altar.
The Heracleidae
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I don't shrink from menial household chores.
Times, Sunday Times
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One can easily get into a verbal mess at this point, and my own experience with pragmatism 'makes me shrink from the dangers that lie in the word' practical, 'and far rather than stand out against you for that word, I am quite willing to part company with Professor Bergson, and to ascribe a primarily theoretical function to our intellect, provided you on your part then agree to discriminate' theoretic 'or scientific knowledge from the deeper' speculative 'knowledge aspired to by most philosophers, and concede that theoretic knowledge, which is knowledge _about_ things, as distinguished from living or sympathetic acquaintance with them, touches only the outer surface of reality.
A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy
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People still shrink from the terrible word cancer, even if they themselves have not been diagnosed with this dread disease.
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We must not shrink from our responsibilities.
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Mankind censure injustice, fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from commintting it.
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We must not shrink from the legitimate use of force if we are to remain credible.
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The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
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Then the facts are burst upon them, and they shrink from their husbands in loathing and horror.
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And the governor used a term earlier that I shrink from, and it's one that I don't think we should be using as Republicans: 'middle class.'
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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.
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Mankind censure injustice, fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from commintting it.
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Carnal hearts seldom shrink from the pains necessary to carry on their carnal purposes; when a proselyte is to be made to serve a turn for themselves, they will compass sea and land to make him, rather than be disappointed.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
