Sentence examples for I shrunk back from inspiring English sources

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.

I shrank back.

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

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

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

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.

But they shrunk back from mutiny.

Since winning it England have shrunk back into the pack.

Ms. Black shrunk back and looked on politely, before giving her own brief response.

The glacier named for Muir has shrunk back about 20 miles since his visit.