I had almost shrunk away in the streets from the bright-faced, happy girls I passed; and at times I found myself asking what was my sin that I should be punished as I had been.
Your marriage will resemble the Acacia-grove we are now going to, the leaves of which grow thicker with the heat of summer, while other shrubs are yielding only shrunk and porous shade.
But this is a sort of death which is not at the beck of every one, so ready as the shrunk Pomponius Atticus found it, when his digestive apparatus had already struck work.
In a few seconds I had shrunk to the size you now see me; but there I remained, getting no smaller, indeed, but no larger.
Give me the other box," begged Blinkie, who had now shrunk to half her former size.
The maid shrunk further from him in sheer loathing.
But when that was once over (for Tryon did recover, as those to whom life is a burden often will), Walter shrunk from him again, as one whose hand had fired the mine that overthrew his happiness.
This responsibility she shrunk from with unremitting reluctance.
Mr. Pinkham shrunkfrom commenting on a disaster like that, and relapsed into silence.
Then his responsibilities shrunk to winding up the office clock and keeping Mr. Slocum firmly on his legs.
Again she shrunk from the question, and fervently implored "to be spared on that point.
His eye was fixed on this object; and regardless where he placed his feet, he soon shrunk back with horror, on perceiving they had nearly trod upon a new-born infant, lying on the ground!
Lizzie had shrunk from the young lady in whose life she had interfered with such extraordinary effect, but Chatty had insisted on speaking to her, and had called her almost imperiously.
Her intention was to walk quietly along without showing the slightest apprehension, but she involuntarilyshrunk aside whenever she met any of the other sex.
Before Albina went home, Mrs. Potts had come to the conclusion to follow Mrs. Montague's advice, but she shrunk from the task of telling her so in person.
The skirts and sleeves had shrunk much in dyeing, and the pieces that composed the bodies had been ravelled, frayed, and pulled so crooked in dressing, that they had lost nearly all shape.
She felt that she and the world had, so to speak, done with each other, and she shrunk from encountering new faces and the necessity of talking to strangers.
He would not have admitted it to himself, but he shrunk from writing to Dolph and telling him that he, the duke, was right, and that Leslie was forgotten.
Emigrants frequently passed my doors, but I had hitherto shrunk from tendering the hospitalities so universally accorded in the colony.
I would have shrunk not a foot from the march of an army.
The nobles and the clergy, many of whom had at first gone heartily with the early reformers, had shrunk back appalled when they saw that religion and monarchy were menaced.
Kent and Sussex, two neighbours, play their county matches on three grounds or four; Surrey, which has traditions at Mitcham and Dorking, has shrunk back to Kennington only.
The narrow lane to which the road has shrunk is less than the Roman made it, but Mickleham Downs can look very little different to-day from the downs which the legionary knew.
He paused, and the scalding tears here ran down his shrunk and furrowed cheeks, whilst he wrung his hands, started to his feet, and looked about him like a man encompassed by dangers that threatened instant destruction.
His imagination shrunk from the miseries of such a connection.
In the days of terror, we shrunk at standing armies; and what is the object now--defence?
This was what might be called a smart stroke of work, but it shrunk into insignificance compared with the audacious act of plundering one of her Majesty's fortified stations.
Shrunk into a corner of her chair, my sister stared dully before her.
At that dreaded word every arm fell, every sword shrunk back into its scabbard.
As I threw a look of terror round my prison, as I shrunk from the cutting wind which howled through my subterraneous dwelling, the change seemed so striking, so abrupt, that I doubted its reality.
Stretched across the landau, upon a bank of cushions, Benedetto, who seemed to have shrunk in stature, answered the Professor's frequent questions more often with a smile than with his feeble voice.
The movement shrunk to a murmur of assent, and then ceased.
Nero put the point of one to his breast, shrunk and threw it away.
Corbulo, a quiet, thoughtful and modest man, shrunk from the stir and emptiness of such life, and had found rest and enjoyment in the company of his daughter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shrunk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
