Sentence examples for I shrank back from inspiring English sources

I shrank back.

I shrank back in terror, wondering whether he had seen me.

I shrank back (couldn't help it) and watched as they marched past, fragile but poised.

She stretched out both her hands to me then but I shrank back, unaccountably loathe to take them.

There's a gap in my notes here at the point where I shrunk back and looked wistfully around the Frédéric Fekkai salon, bursting with sophisticated women getting up-to-date cuts, while my little sister Margaret was guarding her old do like a junkyard dog.

After laughing at the skunk turning to spray riders I shrunk back in the log as a mountain lion threatened to pounce.

Sometimes I am seduced by those proclaiming so -- and sometimes I shrink back in horror at a world that seems to have lost the thick and multi-textured density of deeply evolved personality.

When he shrank back from adults, I would often apologize: "I'm sorry, he's so shy".

While my parents shrank back in embarrassment, I was just confused about why our score hadn't gone up.

I scowled at the clone, and he shrank back in his chair.

Do I get time off from the flame thrower if I get it right?" The Devil frowned fearsomely and the woman shrank back.