Sentence examples for shrink like from inspiring English sources

You shrink like Fred Flintstone did when Wilma caught him in a lie.

When this free-range timber ages, it doesn't warp or shrink like newer woods.

The folds of the sleeveless top grow and shrink like a jellyfish as it swims against a strong current; the lower half is a flirty skirt.

I think how strange it must be to have your world shrink like this to a tiny room, but then I remember that a home isn't a world and that Diana Athill's world seems much, much bigger than most.

Ms. Baker's intimate, whispering plays about the search for companionship in an alienating world would probably shrivel and shrink like cashmere run through the dryer if they were presented in large theaters.

Swamps were drained to create agricultural fields and housing developments; this caused the peaty marsh soils to oxidize and shrink, like a drying sponge, resulting, in many instances, in new expanses of open water.

I can feel my brain shrinking like a dried-out sponge.

It is slowly shrinking, like the town of about 500 itself.

The size of It in my life keeps shrinking like a tawdry rest stop in our rearview mirror.

When she did this, she suddenly descended several inches, giving the disconcerting impression that she was shrinking, like Alice after consuming the bottle labelled "Drink me".

"But the other companies did it while their business was growing, not while shrinking, like Aetna's business is," he said.