Sentence examples for glass shrink from inspiring English sources

"There are people who, under the magnifying glass, shrink.

The white wine in his glass barely shrinks an inch in 88 minutes.

Some beverage companies experimented with glass bottles shrink-wrapped with plastic, but most have given up because consumers were not always able to tell if a bottle was broken.

Hoya has huge world demand for its patented process for melting and annealing optical glass, which shrinks production times from 26 days to three days.A third group to watch are those that respond to customers' changing tastes with a stream of improvements.

As the ancient Phoenician glass industry shrank from the exposed cities along the eastern Mediterranean coastline, the industry migrated inland, to Hebron in particular.

Since the outer layers of the glass are cooled faster than the inside and pass through the glass transition range sooner, they shrink at a higher rate and are compressed (in effect strengthening the glass), while the interior is stretched.

Remember, you can make things smaller, and the size of the earpiece and other components are going to continue to shrink, allowing Google Glass to look more and more like regular glasses.

Instead of toting actual bottles of wines — and glasses — pack a stack: four stemless plastic glasses of wine shrink-sealed together in a tower — until you snap the glasses apart and hand each to a co-conspirator.

With hotel room sizes shrinking, glass walls are also a tempting trompe l'oeil: they make a room feel bigger by leaving sightlines unobstructed and maximize natural light from the bedroom windows, according to Patricia Miller, head of the hospitality group for the architecture firm Leo A Daly, who is designing exposed bathrooms for a hotel to open in India in 2010.

Viewed from high up aboard Boris Johnson's cable car, the great glass monument shrinks to a mere pin prick on the capital's sky line, straining for attention between the stern, established megaliths of Canary Wharf.

For even better protection, get aluminized blinds, insulated curtains, or window tint film (which, like car tint, looks like a dark or shiny part of the glass itself: shrink-wrap temporary insulation is different and more for preventing conduction of heat out to very cold outdoors; in summer, solar radiation, blocked by the color or shine, is more important than conduction blocked by the bubble).