Sentence examples for been contracted from inspiring English sources

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been contracted

verb

To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.

  • The snail's body contracted into its shell.

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This wedding fever had not been contracted from my mother.

He was embarrassed to learn G4S had already been contracted to run that year's conference security.

The three ships have been contracted for a year to conduct the new search.

In every case the disease has been contracted in the tropics.

The delivery company has been contracted to provide a complete repair and customer-service operation.

God help the real things if this character had been contracted to eliminate them at Wimbledon.

Since Summer 2011, I have been contracted, rather than salaried to work for Godfrey Bloom/EFD.

Ann Widdecombe has been contracted to perform on Strictly Come Dancing.

There is nothing firmly in place, no [actors] have been contracted to do it".

GPs have recently been contracted to screen at-risk people for dementia.

All of the human cases appear to have been contracted directly from birds.

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