"shrink" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He was using the one weapon from which they instinctively shrank.
- You instinctively shrink from pain as the laundry shrinks your cotton shirt.
- She shrank back from him instinctively, but he held out his hand in a soothing gesture.
- It was odd how Creep shrank instinctively into the deeper darkness of the room.
- Now he raised something to his eye, and the two men shrank back instinctively, although they knew the darkness protected them.
- If we ask a sane man how much he merits, his mind shrinks instinctively and instantaneously.
- The unknown with all its terrors rushed upon him, and he shrank back instinctively into the shelter of the bush.
- She instinctively shrank from them if they passed close.
- The natives shrank instinctively from the Japanese soldiers, who ignored them.
- He was on his feet so fast that she instinctively shrank back.
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