Sentence examples for were contract from inspiring English sources
verb
To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
- The snail's body contracted into its shell.
Of those new customers, 882,000 were contract customers.
Each missed a season because they were contract holdouts, so this is no small snag.
The only thing he would say was that there were contract issues with EMI.
Lowest of all were contract labourers from France (engagés) and black slaves.
There were contract disputes, tardiness to meetings, displays of frustration toward Coughlin and more.
Matthew Engel, former editor of Wisden Cricketers Almanack, once complained that many modern international matches were "contract compliance cricket".
That's because they were contract-compliant, interjected the impatient Thompson who did have one good moment.
Their abdominal muscles were contracting.
Airways were contracted to carbachol.
Table 2 shows that 4,988 of the 9,698 surveyed nurses (51%) were contract-based nurses.
On average, about half of nurses in China's more comprehensive hospitals, that is level 2 and level 3, were contract-based, and the proportion of contract-based nurses varied across hospitals from none to almost all nurses being contract-based.
