Sentence examples for and then shrank from inspiring English sources

4. Greece's economy started growing again — and then shrank.

Welfare rolls shrank, and then shrank some more.

In addition to consistently broadening its coverage of those tenacious moving pictures, The Times found space, which grew and then shrank, for vaudeville and operettas and radio programs.

Detroit expanded at a stunning rate in the first half of the 20th century with the arrival of the automobile industry, and then shrank away in recent decades at a similarly remarkable pace.

At the other end of the scale, there is dramatic imagery that suffers from a muddle of cause and effect: bull's blood that "bulged brilliantly and then shrank back shabbily into the sand".

The magazine started in 1996 as a 16-page photocopy, grew to a 250-page glossy at the height of the Internet boom last year and then shrank to 64 pages by its last issue this month, a victim of the technology advertising decline that also caused The Industry Standard, a national Internet business magazine, to stop publishing earlier this year.

The sky is the limit for it, unless it is forced to remain in its territories and then shrink.

I looked up and watched the sky expand overhead and then shrink down to fit me like a safety helmet.

It is affixed with double-sided tape and then shrunk with a hair dryer for a tight fit.

The scouts loved coloring and then shrinking the plastic so much that they often fought over the scraps.

It suggests that these different recorded heights are accurate – and that Melville might have actually grown and then shrunk some 1 1/2".