Sentence examples for shrank away from from inspiring English sources

Most of what he saw he shrank away from.

"I don't want to get involved," he said, and shrank away from the gun.

After six years of medical school, death is a certainty that I must admit I shrank away from.

Depending on your outlook, the album was either irritatingly gauche in its outlook, or a bracing blast of agit-prop punk at a time when most pop music shrank away from anything vaguely political.

After 16... fe, Sahovic shrank away from 17 Nd2 Nd5 18 Ne4 Ne3 19 fe Be4 20 because because his pawn formation would be a mess and his king position dubious.

The police, too, seem to shrink away from confrontation.

Right now we're shrinking away from truth.

It should have a slight wobble but be set and shrinking away from the sides slightly.

It is less a shrinking away from the world than a redirection of our energies.

The police said many had shrunk away from their questions, a longstanding problem in the neighborhood.

He took little credit for them, shrinking away from "the concept of pride" to seek the shade.