Sentence examples for men shrank from inspiring English sources

Over all, the new study found that from 2003 to 2008, the difference in life expectancy between black and white men shrank from 6.5 to 5.4 years, with black men expected to live 70.8 years, compared with 76.2 years for non-Hispanic white men.

(During one march through New Jersey, he watched through watery eyes as an army of 30,000 men shrank to 3,400).

Although his teachers "not unfrequently turned me off with little or no attention, as though I was too stupid to learn and too dull to feel neglect," Strang recalled that he spent "long weary days ... upon the floor, thinking, thinking, thinking ... my mind wandered over fields that old men shrink from, seeking rest and finding none till darkness gathered thick around and I burst into tears".

A surprising byproduct of this downsizing was that the brain of Flores man shrank to become smaller than a chimpanzee's.

In relation to this other universe the universe that has gradually revealed itself to later observers the "stature" of medieval man shrinks from the heroic to the bumptiously absurd.

4If the pilot ejects one second too late,if the condemned man shrinks at seeingthe trapdoor give way, if the man who standswith fire at his back and a baby in his armshears the near neighbors cry,"Drop her! Don't worry!

And then they reverse roles with the first man shrinking down and the other rising up, his neck seemingly made out of plastic.

The share of white voters — and white men, specifically — shrank in this election as turnout grew among blacks, Hispanics and Asian-Americans, whose support for President Obama more than compensated for his losses among whites, exit polls showed.

But when injury rates for all cycling in central London - not just the hire scheme - were used as a comparison, the benefits were found to be smaller for men, and shrank to virtually nothing for women because of the higher death rate among female cyclists following a spate of deaths in London last year.

But he was an old and sickly man who shrank from undertaking a long and exhausting journey to either of these places.

More than a third are female and the gap with men is shrinking.