She shrank back and told me she didn't feel like being touched tonight.
She shrank from calling herself an "activist"; she was simply an "oncologist".
She shrank, face in hands, and squeaked out a half-serious, "Sorry!" Emerging again, she said, "You're a little darker".
This was why she shrank from him during the visits and was producing symptoms (such as bed-wetting and fear of leaving the house) connected with the visits.
Finch might know the height and weight of your husband, his favorite wines, but she shrank back from any truly personal discussion, sexual or otherwise.
There was a clicking noise … She shrank down to the floor in terror and loathing, and hid her face, and shuddered.
Finding uneasy release as she moved through transformations of her body and face, she shrank at the end of an hour into a seemingly neckless, stunted figure.
That first night with Johanna, and more and more every night after, it was like she shrank in bed, or I grew, until we were the same size.
She trembled, she shrank away as if afraid of a blow, she could barely speak above a whisper — much the symptoms of her nervous breakdown eight months before.
She shrank the distance between her team and the field by taking in a homesick Kia Wright as a transfer from Connecticut and building a team that reached the 2006 N.C.A.A. tournament.
Black swans have a reputation for dominant, aggressive, behaviour, but she shrank back as the resident mute swans stomped up the mud bank towards us, their eight well-grown cygnets waddling in their wake.
