Sentence examples for shrinks like a from inspiring English sources

"This is truly the wild, wild West". To understand why the Southland's textile base is expanding while the domestic industry shrinks like a cheap T-shirt is to recognize the advantages of speed and local sourcing.

As those resources are extracted, the sediments compress, and the land shrinks like a dried sponge.

Their already faltering economy shrank like a cashmere jumper in a hot wash.

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

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

Since then, his reputation, like that of most of his contemporaries, has not so much collapsed like a house of cards as shrunk like a boiled head.

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.

Fang and his colleagues realized that these trusses, when arranged in certain architectures, can pull the structure inward, causing it to shrink like a Hoberman sphere — a collapsible toy ball made from interconnecting lattices and joints.

His tone tightened, and his mouth shrunk like a sea anemone poked with a stick; the Hitchens face can, at moments of dialectical urgency, or when seen in an unkindly lit Fox News studio, transform from roguish to sour.

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.

And last of all the roasted corpse of a child, shrunk like a mummy, which its half-deranged mother has been carrying about with her, the relic of a past that was still intact a few days ago".