Sentence examples for shrink in diameter from inspiring English sources

Finally, when shaping, squish flatter than you want the finished article to be, because burgers shrink in diameter and fatten while cooking.

Tree trunks often shrink in diameter during sunny summer days because of the large amount of water lost from the leaves by transpiration.

The eye of the cyclone began to shrink in diameter and become symmetrical.

If you make the seams too large, your thread catcher will shrink in diameter.

From the numbers and geometries of the lobate scarps, it appears that the planet shrank in diameter by at least 3 km (2 miles).

For antiaircraft defense, the circle was shrunk in diameter as tightly as possible so that each screening ship, by defending itself, helped defend its neighbour.

Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, reported yesterday at the meeting that Betelgeuse--a red supergiant that, back in 1921, was the first star ever to have its size measured--has steadily shrunk in diameter by 15% over the past 15 years.

It may also be significant that during schizogony the vacuole shrinks in diameter.

Indeed, we observed that gels containing TDLU-like structures began to contract after ∼12 days of culture, thus shrinking in diameter (Fig. 6B).

The primary LVP crystals are squeezed together and grow outward because of the limitation of the reaction space for LVP precursors in PVP fiber, accompanying with the carbon nanofibers shrank in diameters.

Patients were routinely examined before each cycle of chemotherapy and were judged to be clinical responders if at the end of the course of chemotherapy, the tumour had shrunk in longest diameter by 50% or more from the initial prechemotherapy measurement.