Sentence examples for shrinks from the from inspiring English sources

But not everywhere in China shrinks from the comparison.

"Hey, boy!" he shouts, condescendingly, and Billy shrinks from the weight of his disapproval.

"He gives the wood kisses," Ovid recounts, drily, "and the wood shrinks from the kisses.

Some part of me still shrinks from the display of patriotism, as if it would violate the emotion itself.

Where the novel wraps you in an intoxicating sensuality, the movie shrinks from the overwhelming physicality of Mr. García Márquez's imagination.

He saw Nazi anti-semitism as "insanity", though he had judged that Hitler "shrinks from the massacre which the logic of his phobia demands".

Couples shrank from the spotlight.

Ford did not shrink from the attention.

She doesn't shrink from the comparison.

Plenty have shrunk from the fray.

And he does not shrink from the prediction.