The old man backed away from the box; Wickroft, trembling, shrank toward a corner.

Janet began to shrink toward the door; she had thought first that Rudy might be a detective, but now she was sure he wasn't.

The blue light of the reactor was shrinking toward its own center.

The big man shrank back toward the wall of shelves.

Auta'd taken the expression personally, though, so she'd shrunk back toward the hedge.

The two waiters shrank toward the kitchen, hoping to get out before they were arrested, too.

Under the weight of so much change, and inspired by Chinese ink painting, his palette shrank back, toward gray.

The edges of the gate had begun to shrink slowly back toward the center.

Then, just as the portal began to shrink toward closure, Malcolm shot through.

The threat that the agency will audit an individual's tax form is shrinking toward zero.