Sentence examples for shrunk like from inspiring English sources

"When we saw that twinkle of color, about a long par-4 away from us, the mountain shrunk, like that.

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.

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.

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".

"And in the New York diamond-cutting industry, which has shrunk like clothes washed in hot water, he was one of the very few" to handle the biggest stones.

Subsequent scenes (with changes in their inhabitants' status signaled efficiently by ingenious variations in Derek McLane's single set) skip ahead to 9 years later, then 12, until finally we wind up in 1983 or 4. By then ambition, ideals and potential have all shrunk like slogan-bearing T-shirts left too long in the dryer.

Reality television teems with celebrity shrinks like Dr. Phil and Dr. Drew who provide make-believe therapy.

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

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

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

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