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Example sentences for "shrank back"

  • She caught sight of him, shrank back a little, uncertain, trembling, and then appeared as if she were about to pass on.

  • He shrank back, lest some of the men might have recognised him, and might carry the intelligence of his presence to Annie Brunel.

  • In an instant Marche was at the door; he saw a game-keeper raise his gun and aim at him, and he shrank back as the report roared in his ears.

  • Immediately a man hailed him from somewhere among the trees, and he shrank back, teeth set, eyes fixed in desperation.

  • He shrank back, teeth set, nerving himself for the spring--a hunted thing turned fierce, a desperate man knowing that death was close.

  • It was like the roar of mighty cataracts, like the sound of many waters; and at the voice of that vast multitude I shrank back for a moment.

  • I shrank back, thinking of seizing Almah and hiding.

  • Then I shrank back, but Layelah laid her hand on my arm.

  • Androvsky started, gazed, shrank back, then turned and strode away like one horrified by some grievous vision.

  • A shout of terror burst almost simultaneously from a thousand throats, and the ladies turned pale and shrank back, shuddering, from the windows.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    agreeable surprise; animal heat; classical writers; clock next; combination bulk; consumable goods; diminish the; far west; furnished room; get down; lang time; livestock carrier; need thee; never learned; opposite page; other small; royal decree; shrank back; shrank from; solid masonry; turned pale; une grande; wrote again