Sentence examples for tendency to shrink from inspiring English sources

"They have a tendency to shrink up and create this odd shape.

"Because of wood's tendency to shrink over time, some of these houses have shrunk and sagged," Mr. Harris said.

Knausgaard was always the one with a tendency to shrink away from conflict, a desire almost to disappear rather than be a hindrance to anyone else.

In short, the present surplus is much smaller than it looks, and it has a powerful built-in tendency to shrink even more.

But whether on its own or with others, Germany is showing signs of growing more comfortable with embracing a bigger military role, a gradual but distinct shift away from an instinctive pacifism that took hold starting in 1945, and a post-Cold War tendency to shrink the nation's military.

However, its tendency to shrink and curl makes adaptation and suturing to the vascular wall more difficult.

The second is a curvature dependent regularization (CDR), which aims at overcoming the tendency of standard regularization to shrink segmented areas.

Because mutations will accumulate with time (within a generation or along a lineage), it is essential to understand how the effects of these mutations on genome size will "add up" in order to understand whether genomes have a tendency to grow or to shrink.

If it really were the case that our attention spans are shortening, you might expect to see a wholesale revival of interest in short stories, or even lyric poems, and a tendency for full-length books to shrink.

Another argues that surface tension the tendency of a water's surface to shrink inwards keeps the bridge aloft.

At this stage the Plasticity Index of the soil decreases dramatically, as does its tendency to swell and shrink.