Sentence examples for player shrink from inspiring English sources

Playing devils advocate for a moment, the two top ten picks Riley has had over the past 12 years resulted in Wade (massive success) and Beasley (colossal bust).The odds of picking a great player shrink significantly once you leave the top 10 of any draft.

But the Churchill field hockey team's junior goalie was on her own Sept. 26 as the inches of grass separating her from the charging Whitman player shrank.

"Trading is becoming a game of attrition as weaker players shrink capacity," says Mr Hintz.

Once again soft mid-winter pitches slowed their progress and one or two players shrank when the going got tough.

Urged to "attack, attack, attack" by the travelling supporters, as vocally impressive as ever, Newcastle's players shrank into themselves.

It took years for personal cassette players and portable CD players to shrink nearly to the size of their tapes and discs.

ST. LOUIS — Big-name players can shrink under the hot glare of the postseason spotlight.

With the touch-screen interface associated with the iPhone and the iPad, the music player had shrunk to a square, weighing less than an ounce and almost comically wee.

Margins on handsets from Nokia of Finland, the biggest player, are shrinking, as some 50 competitors offer similar hardware at ever-cheaper prices.

Successful developers of single-player, shrink-wrapped games use every available computing resource to optimize game performance by juggling subsystems, such as the graphics engine, artificial intelligence routines, and the reading and writing of data, to create the illusion of an ongoing, interactive experience without the kind of glitches and lag that would momentarily interrupt the illusion.

If this makes contracting less attractive and the number of market players shrinks, that then raises problems of competitiveness.