He took the little chopper out of his belt, and slowly and shrinkingly gave me the handle; then dropped on his knees, crossed his hands on his breast, and lowered his head.
He evidently understood, and tried to raise himself, nearly reaching to a sitting position, but falling back from sheer weakness, and gazing shrinkingly at us as if expecting a blow.
She looked around shrinkingly at the fair woman who had taken her mother's place, and her mother's name, dreading to meet a glance of scorn, even transcending that which her father had cast upon her.
Tom Fillot and the rest of the prize crew were in front, and as Mark shrinkingly marched up to where the captain was waiting, Mr Russell gave him a friendly smile, and the first lieutenant one of his frowning nods.
Max turned shrinkingly toward the table, but glanced nervously from one dog to the other, and just at that moment, Bruce, who was behind, smelt his legs.
Max, as he shrinkingly met the old man's eye, as he still kept on beckoning, and completely ignored the presence of the rest.
At last she laid her hand shrinkingly on mine, and I grasped it firmly.
Jael came breathless out of the mill-house, and shrinkingly approached the margin.
With a still surviving attachment to the one miserable yard and block of houses as her birthplace and home, she passed to and fro in it shrinkingly now, with a womanly consciousness that she was pointed out to every one.
The fair little face, touched with divine compassion, as it peeped shrinkingly through the grate, was like an angel's in the prison.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shrinkingly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
