Sentence examples for contracted along from inspiring English sources

Khulna, a city of more than 1m in Bangladesh, has contracted along with its jute industry.

Since the financial crisis, Wesleyan's endowment has contracted along with everyone else's, falling 24 percent in the last fiscal year, which ended June 30 , 2009

In total we find that more than half of the 9,990 families present in the mammalian common ancestor have either expanded or contracted along at least one lineage.

In montane habitats, species' ranges may have expanded and contracted along an altitudinal gradient in response to environmental fluctuations leading to alternating periods of genetic isolation and connectivity.

The range of G. elliotii is predicted to have expanded and contracted along an altitudinal gradient resulting in historic periods of connectivity and isolation.

During detachment from the 1% GMA TNFS, cells contracted along the longitudinal axis and lost anisotropic morphology, with the entire cell sheet shrinking and losing alignment.

The number of machine-tool plants in Springfield tends to expand and contract along with the national economy.

It is also immensely strong and flexible, enabling it to expand and contract along with the lithium.

If lots of flexible antennas attached to small radios were placed inside a bridge, they would expand or contract along with the bridge and so would constantly retune themselves.

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These anisotropic materials will contract along the alignment director and expand perpendicular to it when subjected to an anisotropy-reducing stimulus, such as heat.