"contract" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

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contract + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 35
contract tuberculosis • contract fever • contract the disease • contract the virus • contract AIDS • ...
contract + preposición
Kolokacji: 22
contract with • contract out • contract for • contract from • contract at • ...
contract + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 16
originally contracted • contract slightly • contract directly • contract sharply • privately contracted • ...
3. slowly contract = wolno umowa slowly contract
  • Mannix's eyes slowly contracted until they looked like two tiny shining disks, but otherwise the man did not move.
  • As more and more sediment was brought in, the margins of the inland sea slowly contracted.
  • His bearded face was grim, and one hand slowly contracted on his mug, as though he would shatter it.
  • As the minutes ticked by the globe on the screen contracted slowly.
  • She slowly contracted a greed for respectability and began to refer to her acting as a pastime.
  • As the 18th century progressed, the extensive literature in Latin being produced at the beginning slowly contracted.
  • You put on the pressure, and your lungs slowly contracted, like a pneumatic tire with a leak.
  • He set it around Circumbright's neck, started it contracting slowly.
  • Beneath it, the molten mass contracted slowly into an approximation of its original shape.
  • He slowly contracted the bicep of his right arm.
4. fully contracted = w pełni zawrzeć fully contracted

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