Sentence examples for make a contraction from inspiring English sources

Use the apostrophe to combine two words to make a contraction.

This made a contraction in the final three months of the year almost inevitable and put a boot into the market and the pound.

And here's the thing: when this started, Greece was running a large primary deficit — which meant that even if it repudiated all its debt, it would still have been forced to make a major fiscal contraction.

In the first, subjects made a background contraction and PF stimuli (0.2 Hz) were given at a randomly chosen intensity.

The last time it made such a cautious statement was in December 1990, when it said that a recession had most likely begun between June and September but that it could not make a determination until the contraction was sufficiently long and deep; the committee announced four months later that the recession had started in July 1990.

Below this are two layers of muscles, which develop from the lining of the coelom (body cavity): circular muscles make a segment longer and slimmer when they contract, while under them are longitudinal muscles, usually four distinct strips, whose contractions make the segment shorter and fatter.

The game characters are usually depicted as making an isometric contraction of their arms as an expression of power concentration to make a strong attack like a fireball (75).

3) In Figure 2, the authors stated that membrane depolarization does not result in Ca2+ hence does not make any contractions possible.

The existence of the debt did not literally cause the downturn (the consensus is that the proximate cause was a run on the shadow banking system), but it made a deep and sustained contraction far more likely.

With analysts openly discussing the possibility of a run on Greek banks and the delightful contraction "Grexit" making a comeback, it is perfectly possible that everything will go to hell.

Elastic energy stored during the eccentric contractions of running makes a substantial contribution to propulsion as it is released during subsequent concentric contractions [158,208].