Sentence examples for like a contraction from inspiring English sources

anxiety like a contraction.

It sounded like an expansion of their sound in such a way that their next adult record seemed like a contraction.

Every kick to my bladder felt like a contraction.

Here, the world's leading nation is not America or China, but Kenya, where even if you don't have a permanent postal address you can use services like m-Pesa (a contraction of the Swahili phrase for "mobile money") to pay securely for anything in moments – so long as you're registered with service provider Safaricom.

Simply put, without the cushion provided by a massive injection of government spending we are in serious trouble -- as in a contraction the likes of which we haven't seen since the early 1980s and probably before.

Industrial production is volatile, but the world has not seen a contraction like this since the first oil shock in the 1970s and even that was not so widespread.

It's means "it is"; it is a contraction like don't, can't, haven't.

In this case, the apostrophe is essentially acting like it does in a contraction and serving as shorthand.

The Body Artist feels like a wilful contraction of DeLillo's powers, a self-conscious rebooting of his sensory memory, almost an aftershock of humility.

In the t-coordinate, the Hénon map behaves like angle multiplication by a factor of d, while in the z coordinate it acts like a strong contraction.

The contraction of Motoyama is explained by a plate-like contraction source at a depth of 0.1 2.4 km in the central part of Motoyama.