How To Use Shrunken In A Sentence
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Kitteh haz shrunken fish-hed neklace, a sharkskin war clowk adn fish blud war-paint.
…and den a bear came - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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As she embraced him, she felt his shrunken arms and shuddered; the muscular vibrance that had always been the essence of his personality was completely absent.
Empire of Dreams
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My faith, the very name begets a towering conceit wherever it goes," he answered, and he brought his stick down on the floor with such vehemence that the emerald and ruby rings rattled on his shrunken fingers.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
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In a more advance stage, an atretic follicle is easily distinguished without examination of its internal structure by its deformed or shrunken appearance.
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The intense painting shows three old women with shrunken faces and clad in white.
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On the 6th week, he had a check-up and the doctor said it was unbelievable, but the cancer had shrunken, and was now operable, and that they would take out one lung.
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Wear with wedges, big sunglasses and a shrunken denim jacket for a really chic daytime look.
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Shrunken and mean the spirit fails Like old snow falling from the crags And priest and pedagog compete With nostrums for the age that ails,
The Eye of Zeitoon
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The two traits correlate with each other—geophilic, wings shrunken—but they don’t correlate with exposure to wind.
The Song of The Dodo
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Also available for $14.98 was a grey and black version of the shrunken vest Victorya put over her design, but I passed on that, because really, for most of us, "shrunken" is just a code word for "impractical.
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The pathologist's findings seemed predictable: a shrunken hard lump in the right upper quadrant of her abdomen, once a liver.
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In the early 1960s and 1970s and in the mid 1990s shrunken tight clothing often exposed the belly button.
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Her arms are stick like and her skin folds down around her shrunken body like a curtain.
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What is called a bony lesion by the osteopath and a subluxation by the chiropractor, is in reality a "ligatight," that is, a shrunken condition of the connective tissue forming the various ligaments that bind the vertebrae together.
Nature Cure
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A second and darker narrative thread follows a Tonkinese woman known as Bloody Mary who, when not selling shrunken human heads to sailors, offers her nubile daughter to a Marine for trysts on Bali-ha’i.
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Nut kernels that are poorly filled are often hollow, shrunken, shriveled, and chaffy.
Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948
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Gradually, working practices changed and he felt less at ease with the regime of spreadsheets, computers and shrunken expense accounts.
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The little shrunken body had become almost transparent.
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Somehow, in death he looked smaller, shrunken.
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Mr. Edwards appeared to be some type of shrew, but a wizened, shrunken shell of one.
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In the early 1960s and 1970s and in the mid 1990s shrunken tight clothing often exposed the belly button.
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Having shrunken back in fear, Anna now found the strength to straighten up again and hold her head high.
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Jack London's shrunken planet had unshrunk and swallowed a city.
Acephalous
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His head seemed shrunken and his skin was waxy and yellow.
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Her large soulful eyes took up have of her shrunken face, making her look like a skeleton covered with skin.
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Her shrunken face is ash white but her eyes burn in recognition.
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He plucked away the face-cloth, and uncovered the awful visage left to him, almost lipless, one cheek shrunken away, the nostrils eaten into great, discoloured holes, a face in which only the live and brilliant eyes recalled the paladin of Jerusalem and Ascalon.
The Leper of Saint Giles
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If not "dualistic," such a metaphysics is shrunken.
Philocrites: Uh oh, it's salvation by hermeneutics.
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It is said that Sucralose breaks down into 1,6-dichlorofructose, which is toxic and can lead to shrunken thymus glands up to 40% shrinkage and enlarged liver and kidneys, Atrophy of lymph follicles in the spleen and thymus Increased cecal weight Reduced growth rate Decreased red blood cell count Hyperplasia of the pelvis Extension of the pregnancy period Aborted pregnancy Decreased fetal body weights and placental weights Diarrhoea.
Splenda - Does more harm than good???
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Prada fans have gone elegantly ga-ga for Miuccia's shrunken ombré cardigans.
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When I entered the familiar office his shrunken form lolled in his motorized chair as he stared out, rendered goggle-eyed by his thick glasses - but a strong spirit animated all he said.
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But then you spy the Jivaro Shrunken Head (it's real, it's the size of a tennis ball); conjoined piglets in a jar; an assload of taxidermy, including a gorgeous zebra head; giant's rings ...
Boing Boing: September 29, 2002 - October 5, 2002 Archives
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Increased water temperatures generally and seasonally, but ultimately a decrease in summer habitat (e.g., deeper thermoclines in lakes, shrunken hypolimnia in lakes, reduced colder waters in rivers) are likely to reduce available habitat and decrease fish productivity, resulting in fish movements to deeper areas and/or fatal stresses on some fish species (e.g.,
Impacts on arctic freshwater and anadromous fisheries
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The crystalline lens may become cataractous and shrunken.
Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913
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The frail, shrunken body on the couch seeming to control (or merely mimic, perhaps) the powerful one in the arena.
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The shrunken, leathery bag that is 39-year-old Lanegan's face tells you all you need to know about the price to be paid for a life lived on the margins.
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These goatskin shrunken heads are handmade in Ecuador only for us.
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The knitwear pieces—particularly the shrunken sweaters and sleeveless tops—are truly versatile designs that go well with everything in the collection.
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A very old man, shrunken and faded, a waxen wraith of his former self, was sitting in a high-backed armchair by the fireplace.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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Baggy white pants with patches and a shrunken, buttonless vest was not his idea of a good costume.
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But there was still a grilse that rose to a big March brown in the shrunken stream below Elibank.
Letters to Dead Authors
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And shrunken charitable trust asset bases have still to recover fully.
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Admittedly the competition isn't great: that wee bauchle Lulu; the Bay City Rollers, who always looked short on account of their shrunken tartan breeks; the aptly named Midge Ure; Wet Wet Wet, who were fond of kikicking in the gutters; and Simple Minds featuring the always crouching Jim Kerr.
Undefined
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The fact that the layer in the upper atmosphere known as the thermosphere is shrunken and less dense means that satellites can more easily maintain their orbits.
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It conjures an image of a shrunken Britain retreating from the world.
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The full-size keyboard features keys with rounded corners, and aside from arrow-buttons that have been shrunken down to half-size, the keyboard has a standard layout.
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Add a scarf and a shrunken jacket for some vintage appeal and you will have the respect of all those around you.
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Sunny's eyes softened and kneeled next to my shrunken body.
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At 80, he is a shrunken version of the vigorous, olive-clad guerrillero of legend.
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Wear with wedges, big sunglasses and a shrunken denim jacket for a really chic daytime look.
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The selection of jackets and overcoats he sent out ran the gamut from boxy shrunken casual jackets and lightweight trenchcoats to a deliciously sexy dyed yellow shearling vest.
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I have one little complaint with the younger generation. They always look at the present as very shrunken and defective. It’s no good. The older generation may live in its past, in nostalgia. The streets were small, then. The homes were small. Life itself was small. Society was small. Nothing was open like it is today. Today is much bigger. Gulzar
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the dollar's shrunken buying power
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Never wear a matching two-piece tweed suit, but break it up by putting on a pair of baggy, mannish trousers or jeans with a pretty, shrunken, tweedy jacket.
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His/her long muscular tongue lashed and probed the air like a sense organ as if to supplement his/her tiny shrunken eyes.
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He went back into hiding, the shrunken, self-parodying actor within the huge carcass of a body.
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His photographs show that during anabiosis membranes contract in intricate folds within the shrunken cell.
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Wear with wedges, big sunglasses and a shrunken denim jacket for a really chic daytime look.
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The little shrunken body had become almost transparent.
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It was a mummified, shrunken climber wrapped in a sun-bleached tent.
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It conjures an image of a shrunken Britain retreating from the world.
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His head seemed shrunken and his skin was waxy and yellow.
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Everything was withdrawn as far as possible,/indrawn: the tide far out, the ocean shrunken,/seabirds in ones or twos".
Ten of the best beaches in literature
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a shrunken old man
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Her auburn curls bounced against her shrunken face.
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At some point he added a shrunken head because he saw one on my desk and decided that it represented his mother.
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I have one little complaint with the younger generation. They always look at the present as very shrunken and defective. It’s no good. The older generation may live in its past, in nostalgia. The streets were small, then. The homes were small. Life itself was small. Society was small. Nothing was open like it is today. Today is much bigger. Gulzar
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Sunday coat, he was half led, half dragged down the steps by the bedral, shrunken together like one caught in a shameful deed, and with the ghastly look of him who has but just revived from the faint supervening on the agonies of the rack.
The Marquis of Lossie
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It conjures an image of a shrunken Britain retreating from the world.
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These two categories of toxins are the cause of a range of ailments - ergot alkaloids may lead to poor feathering and lesions forming on chickens, fescue foot in ruminants and shrunken udders in sows, while endotoxins are responsible for endotoxic shock and death.
Laboratorytalk - laboratory industry news
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He aged and became senile, but no batter how shrunken his body became, he remained alive.
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The planet V391b Pegasi, whose discovery was made possible by an international team of astrophysicists including researchers at Tel Aviv University, revolves around a "pulsating" star (V391 Peg) that is mutating from its "red giant" status to a shrunken "white dwarf.
Planet Found That Dinosaurs Would Gaze Up To | Impact Lab
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Almost all lacunae included macrophages and degenerated cells with shrunken or condensed nuclei.
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After some initially difficult yanking his shrunken body fell through the spiked hole without too much complaint.
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They are but a shrunken remnant of their former selves.
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I have one little complaint with the younger generation. They always look at the present as very shrunken and defective. It’s no good. The older generation may live in its past, in nostalgia. The streets were small, then. The homes were small. Life itself was small. Society was small. Nothing was open like it is today. Today is much bigger. Gulzar
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The glomerular tufts were shrunken or necrotic and renal medullary rays were congested.
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It has mountaineering memorabilia in the bar, as well as a shrunken head.
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I looked at the shrunken shapes of the old men standing mother-naked round me, and suddenly lost all desire to laugh.
Dwellers in the Mirage
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A vitrectomy may be done to remove the shrunken vitreous gel that is pulling on the retina.
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His shrunken face stared out of the grainy picture, a tube protruding from his nose, his head without hair.
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And shrunken charitable trust asset bases have still to recover fully.
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I will nitmer eevr of shrunken coowilts o shrunken heds on a coowilt o a shrunken hed with fabrick sown awn it. oh deer.
No more TV. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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The heady spiced wine burned down her throat and hit her shrunken stomach like a small explosion.
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Stephen Hawking looks like a shrunken pile of bones, yet in his scientific investigations he is probing the secrets of the origin of the universe.
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And shrunken charitable trust asset bases have still to recover fully.
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Gradually, working practices changed and he felt less at ease with the regime of spreadsheets, computers and shrunken expense accounts.
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Her shrunken daughter & oversized bottom equals your oversized daughter & shrunken bottom.
AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
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Francis Upritchard's scabby shrunken heads are disgustingly ugly - bruised, green skin, old teeth, yucky dandruffy hair.
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case-harden," that is, the outer part dries and shrinks before the interior has a chance to do the same, and thus forms a firm shell or case of shrunken, commonly checked wood around the interior.
Seasoning of Wood
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There is too much suffering in this shrunken little world of mine to wish otherwise.
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How dim was I to think my skinnies would go with last autumn's shrunken tweed jacket?
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And it is my duty to caution you that the estate won't stand it -- to call that an estate, "he divagated, with a kind of despairing sniff," which is already, by the extravagances of your ancestors, shrunken to scarcely more than three acres and a cow.
The Lady Paramount
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Her other features, overshadowed by this denseness of bone, appeared shrunken in contrast.
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Their eyes are darkened in their sockets, cheeks hollow and shrunken, their heads and hands unnaturally out of proportion as if they are famine victims.
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The earliest, by contrast, looks worn and shrunken, its bursting contours eroded by the years.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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In the final stages of "cell dying", the nucleus becomes shrunken (pyknosis) or fragmented (karyorrhexis).
Cell damage from toxicity and tissue repair
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Top graph: in every case except for NO, at a given concentration / level of the indicated treatment, and at the time points examined, on average, less than half as many nuclei in neurons over-expressing ZEB1 showed a shrunken / pyknotic / condensed morphology compared with their GFP-expressing counter-parts.
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I find them pure, savoury and refreshing - perfect with toothfish, though perhaps not shrunken squid.
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His Solomon is a revelation, a shrunken 90-year-old Russian Jew in too-short trousers and a sheepskin collared overcoat, who refuses a drink when he wheezes his way to the top of the house.
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It conjures an image of a shrunken Britain retreating from the world.
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Furniture lights machinery:automatic car-teeth, tooth rolling machine, a shrunken pipe, tube machine, machine Tubes Drawn Without Mandrel, straighten machines, pipe cutting machines.
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Shrunken and enclosed, he looks up at the camera with a scowl; his eyes are hooded, his cheeks hollow.
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This results in yellowed envelopes, shrunken address windows, and brittle paper.
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It conjures an image of a shrunken Britain retreating from the world.
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