Sentence examples for shrunk at the from inspiring English sources

Skiing "expands the chest that has shrunk at the desk," declared one contemporary writer.

"State revenues have shrunk at the same time that spending pressures are mounting.

Before the game, Big Time Timmy shrunk at the thought of facing Arizona's slugger.

Government grants have shrunk at the same time as public transport demand - like London's population – is rising fast.

While connoisseurs of the Rolls-Royce of vegetal floor coverings nodded mischievously, many more shrunk at the thought of spores, mildew and the ravishing parquet de Versailles underneath.

The Liberals, who held power for 80 of the 110 years between 1896 and 2006, had shrunk at the last election to become the Ottawa Parliament's third largest party, behind the left-wing New Democratic Party (NDP).

Coe shrinks at the thought of trying to convert anyone.

TRADE is shrinking at the fastest rate since the second world war.

In Britain, which has not joined the euro, manufacturing shrank at the fastest pace in three years.

The country has actually been shrinking at the rate of about a million people a year.

But again, perspectives are shrinking at the same moment that horizons are broadening.