How To Use Shrink In A Sentence
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We're currently shrinking the size of technology by a factor of 5.6 per linear dimension per decade, so it is conservative to say that this scenario will be feasible in a few decades.
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Locked into declining industries and a shrinking public sector, unions have become ineffective.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm worried about washing that shirt in case it shrinks.
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You cannot tell people to shrink or become less fit.
Times, Sunday Times
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The partial credit manager's month loan completes the volume even to shrink about 90 %.
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Moving onto land may have been a survival strategy resulting from the need to abandon one shrinking body of water for another .
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Dear ladies (and sirs), that last is reason alone to try to remember to WASH - not dryclean - your (washable) fabrics when you get them home, instead of waiting until just before you sew them to preshrink them.
Resolved. - A Dress A Day
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Over 10,000 filar-micrometer and red light CCD measurements of Mars' north polar cap have been taken over the past 40 years, and they show that it has been shrinking.
The polar-bears-on-the-melting-ice-cap photo.
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Our brave front withstood unshrinkingly the heavy fire of rifles and cannon concentrated upon it.
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In our ever shrinking world, the short range qualities of shotgun pellets mean we don't need big ranges and lots of space to enjoy our sport.
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The tape has the advantages of heat resistance, insulation and heat shrink, becoming ideal insulating binding materials for manufacturing and repairing of electrical machinery, transformer and so on.
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Just then Edward handed Doctor Instow a goodly rasher of broiled ham, upon which was a perfectly poached egg; and directly after the man came round behind Jack, and quietly placed before him, with a whisper of warning that the plate was very hot, another rasher of ham, and at the first sight of it the lad began to shrink, but at the second glance, consequent upon a brave desire not to show his repugnance, he saw that it was a different kind of rasher to the doctor's, and that there was no egg.
Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy
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When Wanda's little brother accidentally shrinks Ms. Frizzle and the kids, they end up trapped in a bathroom with no way out!
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Fingers, hands, and the washboard supply the pressure, a process called fulling, and the warm soapy water shrinks the fibers into a compact form.
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Leave a decent overhang in case of shrinkage.
Times, Sunday Times
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The main auditorium Although you can shrink a hall by various techniques, it is not ideal.
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They were shrinking back from the basement door.
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A dense wood will have proportionally more elasticity and resistance, but also a greater margin of shrinkage and swelling.
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Wash it and dry it so that later washings, once the quilt is finished and used, won't shrink your coverlet out of shape.
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The yellow book has seen taxpayers, rather than companies, bear the cost of redundancies as shrinking budgets have shut defence factories across the country.
Times, Sunday Times
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Beneath, where even in August noonday, the sun cannot find its way by a chink, and babies lie stark naked in the cavernous shade, Allen Street presents a sort of submarine and greenish gloom, as if its humanity were actually moving through a sea of aqueous shadows, faces rather bleached and shrunk from sunlessness as water can bleach and shrink.
Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It
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Later, Daley would shrink civil service and expand the patronage army.
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So let's push for means-tested benefits, and hope that social security slowly but surely shrinks and evolves to a welfare system for the needy elderly.
Forced Savings vs. Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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When patching, use a high-strength non-shrink concrete grout mix with an epoxy binder.
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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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Downstairs, a new "stereotactic" radiation therapy machine is capable of delivering a minutely focused, high-level dose of radiation to shrink or eliminate tumors.
BangorDailyNews.com - News
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But the city itself has continued to shrink, and unemployment there has remained at double the Ohio rate.
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Finally, technology footprints continue to shrink, leaving that much more space ready to be used for other uses.
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Results Neostigmine can contract the intestinal muscle convulsively, shrink the blood vessel and dark the blood color.
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Fixes, cleans, shrinkwraps and salts his own bodyless egg head.
Out of Context Ad Challenge – The Bleat.
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Makers have used the trick called shrinkflation on 2,500 grocery products in five years.
The Sun
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If a skill is used again and again, the link hardens; if it's used only once, the filopodia soon shrink back, triggering a change in the brain cell, a thinning of the grip that may explain forgetting.
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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 feat, proposed by Albert Einstein and Satyendra Nath Bose in 1925, could help shrink the size of electronic devices.
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It was the same thing that made him physically shrink into his scarf and his leather jacket.
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It's a narcotising vista, causing the pupils to shrink, the heart to beat faster.
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PP packaging materials are the main belt , steel belt, Chan Raomo, shrink film.
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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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Beth has already met Arleen Starr, who spoke with her prior to sending her off for another set of tests, but the doctor is still a stranger who makes Beth shrink into herself with shyness.
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They take out the interest and their capital shrinks in value over time.
Times, Sunday Times
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Resin: there are pyroligneous DIN cellulose, especially medium restriction of polyacrylic ester class shrinkproof resin.
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He needs a shrink, Kate thought, but she knew she would never dare suggest it.
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On Monday, Feb. 25, Lorraine Bracco — who around here is still better known as the shrieky wife in GoodFellas than for her role as the shrink with a smoky voice on The Sopranos — threw a launch party for her new line of wines at the Hard Rock Café on Broadway and 43rd Street.
Bracco Gets Blotto! <i>Sopranos</i> Stars Sip 'n' Sass With Good Ol' Lorraine
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Civic and church leaders are turning to downtown businesses for help in replacing shrinking government resources.
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Cotton and linen covers will always shrink with washing.
Collins Complete Books of Soft Furnishings
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As glaciers shrink and meltwater lakes grow, the threat to nearby communities increases.
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One thing is for sure - the interest in the manband won't be shrinking any time soon, unlike some other appendages.
The Sun
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The legs of this diode are covered in heat shrink to prevent shorting out.
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Xiangyu butterfly museum, collect the nonesuch butterfly and shrink the natural fairy in one place.
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Other researchers have suggested that shrinkage occurs when there are long distances between pastures and weighing facilities.
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The preliminary growth figures come after a 2.2 per cent shrinkage in the first quarter and are worse than government forecasts of a 4.4 per cent decline.
Times, Sunday Times
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Developers and equipment manufacturers, among others, would have no leverage on price, would see their markets shrink and their profits shrivel.
Art Brodsky: Labor Leader's Lament: 'Where Are the Jobs' AT&T Promised?
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These bootlegs come shrink wrapped in pretty packaging, looking almost exactly like a professional version except they cost a fraction of the price.
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Dawg has not consumed supermarket ground beef since that scandal but buys his own round or chuck and grinds it at home with a sufficient amount of fat to assure the somewhat rotund Dawg that he does not shrink to skinny-fartdom and look like some Godawful feo Chapala shrimp on a motorbike who thinks he is Marlon Brando but has more in common with Boy George.
The big chapala beef beef
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We couldn't even take a reporter's notebook inside: Instead, Applied's staff gave us a shrink-wrapped, specially sanitized clean-room notebook and clean-room pen to use.
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Fading from mag -2.6 to -2.4 and shrinking in diameter from 43 to 39 arcsec during the month, it is conspicuous near the Moon on the 2nd and again on the 30th.
Starwatch: The January night sky
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Please help me out before I shrink, fade or bum all my new does.
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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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Japan suffers from tepid economic growth, draconian immigration policies and a shrinking population.
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And when it stops for whatever reason, the economy will shrink again. toco
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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The magazines came to me in shrink-wrap, my name shining out in glossy black or blue or pink.
The Mother Garden
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The license terms can be printed on the sticker or the shrink wrap or be viewable through the shrink wrap as in software packaging.
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The world's supply of agricultural land is shrinking fast.
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As I've said before, peak oil isn't a problem if the economy it's powering is shrinking.
Jeffrey Rubin: Tightening Oil Markets Will Bring the Speculators Back
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The man drew on his cigarette and exhaled, his porcine eyes shrinking to pinpricks as they fixed themselves on Abel.
AMAGANSETT
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Those who saw him then say he seemed to shrink into himself and lose what ever vestige he had till then retained.
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Shine diamond decoration and shrink hemline perfectly show female's figure and charm.
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It is possible that you are antisocial, misanthropic, or in need of a good shrink.
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His shrink in the Frankfurt institution had told him that one fragment of retrieved memory, implanted in the brain, could reanimate others.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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I remember a woman losing the tips of her fingers because of the endotoxic shock causing the blood vessels to shrink down.
Archive 2006-01-01
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If neutron degeneracy is not enough to resist the star's collapse it will continue to shrink until the matter is all compressed into an infinitely small, infinitely dense point called a singularity.
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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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So far the bank levy has failed to reach this target because of shrinking bank balance sheets.
Times, Sunday Times
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Your sweater will shrink if you wash it at too high a temperature.
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Poor dear good old Gwynne, tender, sensitive, shrinking, with the face of a seraph and the heart of a maid.
Kempton-Wace Letters
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Prior to this process, the leather is also heated to preshrink it, so that it will retain its shape even after extreme exposure to direct sunlight.
Autoblog
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He says the first line of prescription drugs for hay fever are intranasal corticosteroids, which shrink swollen nasal passages.
Allergy sufferers journey into the season of symptoms
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Hot showers, a humidifier, and gargling with warm saltwater aid drainage, shrink inflamed membranes and soothe sore-throat pain.
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Pour non-shrinking cement, preserve moisture for 15 days and measure data, and perform the acceptance inspection.
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Richard saw a shrink, who gave him a prescription for antidepressants.
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To duck, you scrooch down, and shrink in, to get as much as possible of your body under the eaves of your steel helmet.
The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me
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Many manufacturers have resorted to 'shrinkflation': reducing the size of products while keeping the price the same.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Flags are bits of coloured cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.
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Each of the soft-cover lines is run inline with a trimmer, shrink wrapper, boxer and palletizer .
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The Anglican Church of Canada is shrinking faster than a haemorrhoid in an argon laser.
2010 April « Anglican Samizdat
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And the tiny hair-like projections on the cells - the villi (VIL-li) - shrink and may even disappear.
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Their labour forces will shrink and the economy will slow down.
Times, Sunday Times
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The second process was sort of the reverse: to take these graphic blow-ups and shrink them into icons (I wound up only using a few of these in the final book, but they were important to the process).
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Shrinkage cracks and dusting and delaminating problems have been reduced.
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The push was dogged by rising costs, shrinking stockbroking fees and volatile markets.
Samsung Securities, Daiwa Cut Jobs in Asia
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He watched her in astonishment as she seemed to shrink into herself, and sank slowly onto the chair almost directly behind her.
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Now, I'm very soft-hearted and happen to know that my meat appears by special act of creation divinely shrink-wrapped on Tesco shelves.
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Scotland is facing a serious future skills gap with an ageing and shrinking working population, according to a new study.
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She reached in and took them out and worked away at the shrink-wrapping plastic with her nails until she could free them.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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Due to numerous states' slow recovery from the economic downturn and the shrinkage of state tax revenues in the last few years, more and more states have directed their attention to intercorporate transactions and income shifting schemes.
August 2005
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Please help me out before I shrink, fade or bum all my new does.
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The heat can delaminate the shoe and shrink the midsole.
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These are not wild or bitter rebels nor the usual suspects, but MPs who see how out-of-touch and directionless the shrinking number of decision-makers at the top have become.
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Reduction in herniated disk volume, as disk shrinkage may reduce nerve root Compression.
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We must not shrink from the legitimate use of force if we are to remain credible.
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Even so, the aggregate balance sheets of the banking system probably need to shrink.
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Whether it's going off to college or dumping your shrink, I think that's part of the healthy growing process.
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The study into food shrinkflation found that companies risk losing customers as a result of the practice.
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Is that shrink cunt that answered the phone?
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We must not shrink from the legitimate use of force if we are to remain credible.
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Corporate honchos routinely install video cameras at ‘watch stores’ with high shrink, the lenses pointed at registers, the stockroom and the manager's office.
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Oil prices rose by more than $1 a barrel after government data showed shrinking supplies of crude, gasoline and heating oil.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of the unfortunate effects of the process is that the person's clothing rarely shrinks with them, thus leaving them to brave a changed world unclad.
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shrinkwrap the CDs
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As the enamel shrinks on melting and cools with a concave surface, more has to be poured in and the process repeated.
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As well as obesity fears, the brands will have been hit by shrinkflation.
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When they wheel and dance like miniature starlings, the consequence is that three-dimensional shapes are formed, as tissues invaginate in response to the movements of cells;* or swell or shrink due to local patterns of growth and cell death.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
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Wise heads who won't shrink away in big games.
The Sun
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‘You can shrink that time if you use drying aids, like speedy topcoats or finishing sprays,’ she adds.
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Most experts don't recommend keyed joints because they don't transfer load very well once the concrete shrinks and the joint opens.
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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.
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Developments in sub-machine guns since 1945 have concentrated on bringing them closer to assault rifles and shrinking them in size.
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April 23rd, 2008 1: 54 am ET don't forget that there was a gap of nearly 20% and now it shrinked to 8.6% (regarding to the PA Department of State)
NY Times slams Clinton's 'negativity'
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Shrinking electronic or mechanical systems further, he says, will inevitably require new paradigms involving quantum theory.
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Capital investment could shrink by half. Inflation is probably running at 150 percent a year.
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She has noticed shrinkflation on numerous products at her local supermarket.
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When you puncture the skin with the tip of a sharp knife, it should shrink away and will peel off easily.
The Sun
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An overwrap is fashioned over the trays and heated to 357 degrees for shrinkwrapping.
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The practice is know as shrinkflation.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the demand increasing steadily for small volume, high density and high heat-dissipation rate IC, the key parameter of wire bonding----pad pitch has to shrink in accordance.
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Why do you think the demand for psychotherapists / shrinks is growing and more and more people are turning to massage/yoga and other similarly relaxation-inducing activities.
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The best way to answer this is to consider where new jobs and economic activity might come from as the public sector shrinks.
Times, Sunday Times
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All the time Jeremiah talked, Mathias edged closer to the body, making the girl seem to shrink and wither before the size of him.
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The overall beer market has been shrinking for the last 20 years, making it extremely difficult for brewers to create sustainable growth without cannibalising their existing UK brands.
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When you puncture the skin with the tip of a sharp knife, it should shrink away and will peel off easily.
The Sun
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The best way to answer this is to consider where new jobs and economic activity might come from as the public sector shrinks.
Times, Sunday Times
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This yarn is mothproof, shrink-proof, colorfast, non-allergenic and machine washable and dryable.
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Counsellors, shrinks and psychologists are flocking to the disaster sites and the homes of grieving relatives to comfort the hurting, the stunned and the overwhelmed, sometimes with a media crew in tow.
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Nucor, a steel maker, maintains double-digit growth in an industry that has been shrinking.
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And he said that in recent years there has been pressure to shrink rather than expand the list because of a cascade of complaints from people getting "hassled" by authorities.
KPIX: Top Stories Videos
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Japan has a huge population of post-war baby-boomers and relatively few young people—indeed, so few children are being born that the population has started to shrink.
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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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As a matter of fact, all the shirts here are both colorfast and shrink - proof.
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Similarly, branching to a common return sequence can further shrink code space.
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That is partly a reflection of the small and shrinking audience for short-wave radio broadcasts in China and the recognition that the Internet and smartphones offer a potentially cheaper way to reach more people, despite fears of Chinese-government control of the Web.
U.S. Plans to Lower Its 'Voice' in China
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Second, white all fish populations take a hit in their rapidly shrinking world during a drought, the smaller, omnivorous species may bounce back explosively afterward; the mosquito fish, for example, can breed every three months.
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Your sweater will shrink if you wash it at too high a temperature.
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New entrants have a shrinking sales pool to swim in – and News International can't launch a bragging, soaraway Sun on Sunday without looking crass and cynical.
News of the World scandal: God's newspaper executive less than visionary
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But she had been punished enough for that one mistake - the summer in the sanitarium, the ongoing weekly sessions with her shrink, and the constant fear that the kids at school would find out about it.
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Not surprisingly, bank managers might shrink from using financial futures to conduct macro hedges for this reason.
Financial Markets, Institutions and Money
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Over the next few days my tummy shrinks further back into shape.
The Sun
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In the early 1960s one result of shrinking cinema audiences was the Sunday double bill of low budget horror movies.
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But if anything's clear after examining the life of the Pulitzer prizewinning author of The Color Purple, it's that she's no shrinking violet.
Alice Walker: On Finding Your Bliss Interview by Evelyn C. White
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Students who are limited by their own national boundaries today are like the handloom weavers in an era of industrialization: they may still have a role to play, but it will be in an ever-shrinking one.
Stacie Nevadomski Berdan: MBA Programs Must Deliver Grads Ready for Global Careers
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This is because cotton denim has residual shrinkage and will continue to shrink with each successive wash.
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Allow for shrinkage Leather corals, unlike some coelenterates, do not spend the entire time fully expanded.
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But it would also entail shrinking the banks to maximise profits.
Times, Sunday Times
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With the increasing of elasticity of fluid, the turbulence in shrink hole comes into being, whose intensity is in direct proportion to elasticity.
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Devil Dogs will shrink to the size of petits fours, Big Macs to the size of sliders, Cherry Garcia will be replaced by Sergio Cherry Garcia, the Whopper will lose its ability to whop.
That's Entertainment—Somewhere Else
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ARCTIC FOX: As temperatures rise, the Arctic fox's tundra and sea-ice habitat is shrinking, its lemming prey are becoming less abundant, and it faces increased competition and displacement by the red fox, which is moving northward.
YubaNet.com
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It refers to the resurgence of manufacturing during the 1980s and the mistaken but widespread belief that manufacturing is still shrinking.
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Also, it's entirely plausible to me that there are shrinks out there who overdiagnose because they think they are actually helping parents and their kids and solving problems.
Savage autism.
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Dana told us she has been responding well to treatment, and her tumor is shrinking.
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Mainly apply to shrinking label film on polyester bottle.
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But that tends to shrink in uncertain times, so I would hold off until the outlook becomes less cloudy.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Shine diamond decoration and shrink hemline perfectly show female's figure and charm.
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Such accountants may then find that they have shrinking roles and power within the corporation.
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To prevent this shrinkage, the wet cloth would be placed on a large wooden frame, a "tenter", and left to dry outside.
Pam Holland Designs and Productions
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Shockproof additive is added order to restrict the shrinkage at temperature and the formation of crazing.
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If URL shrinking is your thing, check out our Hive Five Best URL Shrinkers for a comparison of address helpers.
Untiny Reveals The Destination In Shortened URLs | Lifehacker Australia
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The pottingar delivered his opinion in a most insinuating manner; but he seemed to shrink into something less than his natural tenuity when he saw the blood rise in the old cheek of Simon Glover, and inflame to the temples the complexion of the redoubted smith.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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I would imagine the sweatshirt goes bobbly and would shrink.
The Sun
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However, the downside is that the laminate may separate from the wood because the particle board responds to temperature and pressure changes by swelling and shrinking.
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The mercerization process causes the cotton fibers to swell laterally and shrink longitudinally.
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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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Unable to find jobs, many will instead enlist to fight new wars overseas for the world's shrinking oil supply, while savvier nations reap the benefits of alternative energy.
Will Bunch: Palin, Beck, the Tea Party and the Big Lie About Saving "Children and Grandchildren"
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There are also new, shrink wrapped Japanese chopsticks to take back to the table.
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Hungary may have to lower its hopes of shrinking its state sector.
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He went to another shrink, who prescribed another set of antidepressants.
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Manipulated to seek and destroy hardy cancer cells, viruses have been shown to shrink tumours in animal models and in early human studies.
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At last we reach the summit, where Alex shrinks back from the yawning chasm.
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When she was younger she would shrink from me whenever I spoke to her.
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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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With the shrinking dollar and unfavorable exchange rates, the Astra is a rather expensive car to build overseas and import here.
Lifting the hood on the Saturn Astra
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Shrinkflation is particularly common in the confectionary industry.
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The department store chain is giving up a well-located outlet in its bid to compete in the shrinking department store retailing world.
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Six, let the elbows and knees fell on the floor, shrink abdomen, coxal and leg muscles.
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To shrink the size of transistors on computer chips, semiconductor manufacturers are turning to shorter wavelength techniques.
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NABE forecasters said they were more worried about the federal deficit than any other aspect of the economy, even though they expect it to shrink by $100 billion to $1.2 trillion next year.
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She was my grand-daughter, and what's bred in the bone ... oh, but she'd hocussed me properly, playing shrinking Purity, and I'd been ready to shell out half my fortune - and I'd come within an ace of committing murder for her.
Watershed
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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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Life here is shrinking, the horizons drawing in, and the backdrop to our small world seems to be fading and becoming indistinct.
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Keep in mind the material might shrink slightly.
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But old habits die hard, and Apple has shown a proclivity to chase market share while hand-wringing over shrinking gross margins.
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Alistair saw Henry shrink, as if the words had touched a nerve.
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When she finally serves us, the meal shrinked three times.
CULTURAL LEARNINGS FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS ISLAND OF TASMANIA
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I'm worried about washing that shirt in case it shrinks.
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The rest of his body was almost all wolf, though his feet - his hind paws - were still shrinking, and his tail was little more than a stub.
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Three thousand Opel workers lost their jobs at that time, shrinking the workforce from 12,000 to 9,000.
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It's a cheap shot: Send your difficult client off to the shrinks and never see him again.
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Decongestants: These ease congesting by shrinking blood vessels and decreasing blood flow to the sinus passages, which allows mucus to flow more freely.
Docs: Early treatment combats allergies best
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To prove his courage, he told her of his present way of life; Louise had known nothing of its hardships, for there is an indefinable pudency inseparable from strong feeling in youth, a delicacy which shrinks from a display of great qualities; and a young man loves to have the real quality of his nature discerned through the incognito.
Two Poets
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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
