There was nothing that one could shrink from, and Jimmy made a gesture of protest when Eleanor laid her hand on the bandage.
Jimmy turned and went out with her, and, sitting down in the adjoining room, she looked at him with the quietness he was commencing to shrink from.
It is in consequence of the reverence in which I hold this sacred duty, that I shrink from seeing it performed irreverently.
The very weakness which makes you shrink from this, my dearest mother, is the strongest proof that such a visit should be sought, and not avoided.
Lardner appears to shrink from attributing to the inspired St. Jude (supposing him to be the later writer) either plagiarism or a needless repetition of instruction.
However, the matter was settled now, and Mr. Cardross was not the man ever to draw back from an agreement or shrink from a promise.
Or we shrink fromfear of bodily pain: as those knew well who invented the terrors of hell-fire.
It is not his habit to swear: it is his habit to shrink from swearing.
Fear springs sometimes from "love of approbation"; we shrink from an act from fear of being found out, which would mean the loss of that esteem we so prize.
I am the last man in the world, I hope, to shrink from accepting my fair share of any responsibility.
I never sought this explanation--but now it has come, I won't shrink from it.
Sir Patrick's letter had produced some impression on her, which the sensitive nature of the woman seemed toshrink from acknowledging, even to herself.
There are none to bless us, for when we are in distress the great, the rich, the gay, shrink from us; and when we are popular and prosperous those who court us care nothing for us apart from our success.
When Antonius has such numbers with him, and those too men of that sort, what crime will he shrink from, when Dolabella has polluted himself with such atrocious murders without at all an equal troop of robbers to support him?
Leading on his men, he encouraged them in the work of demolition, in the face of such a storm of stones, javelins, and arrows, as might have made the stoutest heart shrink from encountering it.
The personalities, necessarily incident, more or less, to such a work, led its author to shrink from publication, at least during his life.
Whichever way they turned, they were menaced by the most appalling dangers; and better was it bravely to confront the danger, than weakly to shrink from it, when there was no avenue for escape.
Haven't I said that nothing you can say will make me shrink from you?
He knew that he had no love for fighting; but once having taken up the gage of battle, he was not one to shrink from it.
To shrink from me with that strong repulsion which women feel toward some men?
He said he put it upon the candor of his colleague from Virginia to declare whether, in his opinion, any gentleman in that House wished to suppress his sentiments, or was disposed to shrink from an avowal of them.
House wished to suppress his sentiments, or was disposed to shrink from an avowal of them?
They call out all the mercilessness in our disposition, and do not easily forgive us if we are so soft-hearted as to shrink from sacrifice in their behalf.
Please remember I'm acting from an impulse caused by this unexpected talk we are having, and pardon me if I overstep the bounds of reserve or suggest a task that you might very naturallyshrink from as disagreeable.
She did not seem inclined to enter into conversation, and yet she was not repellant and cold, but rather seemed to shrink from notice, and to indicate that past memories were embarrassing.
With a strong and uncontrollable instinct she appeared toshrink from him.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shrink from" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
