Rena's shrinking from the irrevocable step of marriage was due to a simple and yet complex cause.
She knew that he knew, and she paled and shuddered, shrinking away from him.
He gets that shrinking from my father, he was as fastidious as a girl in all such matters.
From hints she had had from Constantine that very day she knew that the rumor was the truth; and she recalled now withshrinking dislike the grimace accompanying the suggestion.
She pulled herself together, and said, 'I must conquer this shrinking body of mine by my will.
The magnitude of his disaster crushed in upon shrinking soul, and as his nimble imagination grasped the stunning significance every molecule of his being vibrated with horror.
Beneath his suave, mature exterior beat the shrinking heart of a perennial hermit whose delight was an adventure book and a bottle of whiskey.
I have been all through the phase ofshrinking from the world's word and touch, as if my whole being were a diseased nerve.
But not then and there was Margaret to die; and slowly she came back to life, shrinking from the touch of Hagar's hand when she felt it on her brow.
With untold anguish at their hearts, both her aunt and Henry watched her, the latter shrinking ever from the thought of losing one who seemed a part of his very life.
But that still region where the more timid life has nestled undaring, unadventured, shrinking from the struggle and the strife above, recoiling from the seething foulness below--what have we in this dreamland inhabited by woman?
No one ever loved praise less; to be pointed at as a man of distinction was abhorrent to his shrinking nature; he seldom, indeed, knew that he was being pointed at, for his eyes were ever on the ground.
Elspeth had said, in her shrinking way, that if she were a man she could love only a woman who was strong and courageous and helpful--such a woman as Grizel, she had said.
An instant later, and for an instant only, the two stood together on the narrow beam, Garstin a shrinking form, his every limb shaken by something more potent than the gusty wind, his face turned anywhere but downwards.
A moment of shrinking came upon her as she thought of the coming London life.
A love for her aunt, desire to help her, and at the same time shrinking as though she saw the whole house which had been, from the first, unhappy to her was now diseased and evil and rotten.
They heard a sudden rush of steps, the impact of his giant body as he flung himself upon the shrinking horse; and then a cry of alarm and rage.
Don't," said Alexia, shrinking away from the shower of congratulations on having made the best choice, and thought of the very thing that was likely to unite the whole school on a gift.
The deprecatory tone is not one I can ever take willingly, but I am conscious of a shrinking sort of pride which is likely to warp my judgment in many personal questions, and on that ground I distrusted my own opinion.
How could any goodness become less precious to me unless my life had ceased to be a growth, and had become mere shrinking and degeneracy?
And with the lurching, swaying, shrinking gully closing in upon me, I ran to get out of its distant open end.
They ran out of the open end of the shrinking little gully and came to a new upward vista.
To Alan and his companions the scene was allshrinking into a miniature chaos of horror at their shoe-tops.
I once committed a crime," she whispered, with shrinking bitterness.
A look of horrified amazement, of shrinking anguish, crossed over her face.
The massive modelling of the Bromion torso is happily contrasted with the shrinkingwhite slenderness of Oothoon.
Harry stood trembling for a few minutes, shrinking from achieving his task.
Leslie stood looking at her for a few moments, his mind dragged two ways, and shrinking from giving his news as he gazed into her dilated eyes.
I can't swim," I said, feeling a curious shrinking on the one side, quite a temptation on the other.
She felt he had noticed her shrinking from Hughie, and was annoyed to find herself blushing under his keen gaze.
With a sweep of his arm he brushed De Lacy aside, hurling him crashing against the wall, and stood before the shrinking girl.
Ranald turned away and stood looking down the lane, shrinking from the sight of the old man's agony.
The poor mother sat looking at him with the look of one shrinking from a blow, while Bella Peter's face expressed only startled fear.
When he assented, she put her arm about him with the utmost care, but she could hardly help shrinking from the clutch of his chilly fingers on her wrist.
It is the better to guarantee peace that they have developed in proportions hitherto unprecedented their military forces, and still continue to increase them, without shrinking from any sacrifice.
This negotiation became known and was defeated by Bismarck, the King of Holland shrinking from the peril of war and the publicity of a disgraceful transaction.
She glanced at him now and then, with bright eyes and flushed cheeks, eager to speak yet shrinking from the half magisterial air which was beginning to supplant his old familiar banter.
Even the good people of the neighborhood, never accustomed to look below the externals of appearance and manner, saw in his shrinking face and awkward motions only the signs of a cringing, abject soul.
Nobody appeared to notice her, although the quarter-deck was fast filling with persons driven back by the fire, yet still shrinking from the terror and uncertainty of the sea.
The sight of that bent and shrinking figure, a woman, old and feeble, trembling like a creature hunted, unmanned him.
He stooped over theshrinking figure still lower; his arm pressed her shoulder.
He bent over the shrinking form in the corner: "I was brutal to you; my heart was sore, seeing you suffer.
The Prince made a step forward as though to gather the shrinking figure in his arms.
She began to stammer, shrinking back against her companion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shrinking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
