Sentence examples for shrinking myself from inspiring English sources
I finally found what I was looking for, and it instead of a diet program that is about shrinking myself, I follow a lifestyle plan that is about expanding -- my strength of body, heart, mind and self.
If I could shrink myself down Innerspace-style and enter this guy's head, I imagine I would have not seen him processing the music he was hearing as much as the $160 price tag on the headphones (which is very, very low for a B&O product) and the $30,000 price tags attached to the speakers in the same room.
I feel myself shrink inside, feel myself more and more convinced that I'm fighting for my right to party in my own way, i.e. by spending most of the set looking at my phone, sometimes nodding my head very slightly until I catch myself doing it, wondering when it's socially acceptable to secrete myself away from my mates to get another drink.
A 40-year-old woman, summertime tan suddenly paled, I shrank into myself.
I felt myself shrinking to my old size.
I often feel myself shrinking away from opportunities or ideas, because I'm worried about doing a less-than-perfect job - even though I know that I'm happier when I create, when I push myself, when I try new things.
With each "this could have been avoided" or "you should just be grateful you are alive," I felt myself shrinking back into that old bad-seed role that I had inhabited for so many years, and it took days to shake the hopeless feeling of being destined to be seen as who I used to be forever.
All of this comes together in the poem's finale, in which Mr. Transtromer observes, "Fantastic to feel how my poem grows/ while I myself shrink".
I will not take my shoes off to dance with anyone or make myself shrink in any way again.
But I shifted my focus from weight loss or shrinking my thighs to being the healthiest version of myself.
