Sentence examples for little contraction from inspiring English sources

It's not the first time that file-sharing tools have received a shock to the system, though, and this little contraction is less the end of an era and more a winnowing of the herd.

The idea of someone stretching my clitoris into the simulacrum of an impotent penis sends a little contraction of horror through me.

That indicates a small contraction again, but a little bit better than April (49.6).

Once the sex has been pinned down, the name tends to follow and before the first contraction, little Jessica or Jack's first five years are all planned out.

Thus, while TrpC3 knockdown can decrease PE-induced [Ca2+]i elevations and decrease hypertrophy, it has little effect on contraction and beating-associated calcium dynamics.

While it is well-known that the structural scaffold that exists between myocytes in the heart is composed of extracellular matrix (matrix) and mesenchymal cells and that this matrix provides an exceptionally strong means to tether and coordinate force generated via myocyte contraction, little is known of their regulation.

With six weeks to go in her pregnancy, it's a little early for contractions, so she was rushed to the hospital.

In relation to the scale, scores of 2.0 refer to low-intensity contraction with little sustainment.

Despite its importance for understanding the mechanisms of muscle contraction, relatively little is known about stretch activation and the way it coexists with synchronous regulation, although current evidence all seems to indicate that the muscle regulation in insects differs markedly from that of vertebrates.

The UK has flat-lined since 2008, and small levels of growth or contraction will have little impact on that general trend.

Medieval Latin was lousy with little marks indicating abbreviations, contractions, and tone, and it seems that sentences containing a question were often closed with a kind of "lightning bolt --the closest modern mark is the tilde --that denoted a rising, questioning tone of voice (as shown in line 4 abolt --the