Sentence examples for shrank toward from inspiring English sources

"When the earth's ancient fire cooled and shrank toward the core," Scott writes in the impressive, impressionistic opening pages of the novel, "it left behind a hard, uneven shelf of land... that was extraordinarily rich with minerals -- with hematite, magnetite, pyrite, quartz, agate and tourmaline".

Thereafter, the glycerol shrank toward the center due to the weight loss caused by oxidation, carrying the embedded NiCo DH with it.

This feels believable; we shrink toward the end.

The spine sleekly curves, shrinking toward the tail.

The threat that the agency will audit an individual's tax form is shrinking toward zero.

This doesn't mean that Republicans should be happy that their tent is shrinking toward political irrelevance.

Gregory Daco, a senior economist with IHS Global Insight, said he believed that the committee would let the bank balance sheets shrink toward the end of 2011, and start moving rates back up in early 2012.

Gaul's greatest city, Lugdunum, had begun to shrink toward the end of the 2nd, and various other regions in the West suffered setbacks at various times, while all of Greece continued to be poor.

What both men know but won't discuss is that despite their avowed priorities, the vast bulk of today's $1.8 trillion federal budget is already spoken for -- and that before long, what little discretion a president has to leave his thumbprint on the federal beast will shrink toward zero.

According to [33], ridge regression regularizes ordinary linear least squares regression by shrinking toward a multiple of the identity matrix.

Wispier blue stars outside the ring arose perhaps 200 million years ago, hinting that the starry ring may be shrinking toward the galaxy's core, as a wave of star formation ripples inward.