Sentence examples for boats shrank from inspiring English sources

After World War II the number of classes stabilized and the size of boats shrank.

The shoals of white fish such as cod and haddock caught by British boats shrank from 457,000 tonnes in 1998 to 243,000 tonnes in 2002.

Another huge boat sat shrink-wrapped in ghostly white.

With its teak details and classic look, Mr. Joel's runabout is so distinctive that it's not the boat for shrinking violets.

His products were not packaged with the amoebic forms and infantilising colours of today's toys, but gained their magical quality simply from taking things of fascination – industrial machines, trains, boats and planes – and shrinking them to the scale of 1 48, reducing the entire world to something that can fit in a box.

Setups shrank.

Problems shrank.

Salaries shrank.

Bras shrank.

Training budgets shrank.

The middle class shrank.