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Sentence with word shrank. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use shrank in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for shrank.

  • She shrank back. (8)
  • Noel shrank away. (8)
  • She shrank again. (8)
  • Chloe shrank from him. (10)
  • Her head shrank timidly round. (10)
  • Lottie shrank a little from him. (9)
  • She shrank as at prick of steel. (10)
  • He prized him, while he shrank from him. (10)
  • But he shrank from knowing it if he might. (9)
  • He started toward her, but she shrank back. (9)
  • But other chiefs shrank from such a disgrace. (19)
  • She pointed, and then shrank and slipped away. (9)
  • Her soul shrank from the violence in his voice. (8)
  • She shrank to smaller and smaller as she looked. (10)
  • The little model shrank back against the windowsill. (8)
  • I shrank from the idea of the Riversley crow over him. (10)
  • She shrank away, pushing him back with all her strength. (8)
  • Mrs. Lupin shrank from the remembrance of those moments. (10)
  • Above all, he shrank from the publicity of the assignment. (9)
  • She shrank down lower still, and a little moan escaped her. (8)
  • It shrank back from his contact, and he recognized Clementina. (9)
  • My cowardice shrank from provoking a recurrence to the theme. (10)
  • Soames shrank back and stood where he could see into the hall. (8)
  • In proportion as they seemed to widen about her, Vittoria shrank. (10)
  • Lapham bent a frown on the woman, under which she shrank back a step. (9)
  • Then one of the farm dogs barked; her grasp relaxed, she shrank back. (8)
  • They shrank, each of them, the more from an end drawing closely into view. (10)
  • Now, from the terror of that sight the Princess hid her eyes, and shrank away. (10)
  • There was a fanaticism in it from which her soul, attuned to semitones, shrank. (12)
  • And he, who easily shrank into his shell, could not but acquiesce in her reserve. (8)
  • Certainly Edward Pierson shrank from the rough touches of a knock-about philosophy. (8)
  • Better a thousand times that I had married, though I shrank from a heartless union! (10)
  • His spirit shrank from the chill of the tomb, to which the day had brought him near. (13)
  • Much so they pressed for a nearer sight of its walnut visage, and shrank in the act. (10)
  • He caught a distant glimpse of the little bit of bare selfishness, and shrank from it. (10)
  • Rhoda gave a loving answer, and again Dahlia shrank from the miserable comfort of words. (10)
  • Rhoda gave a loving answer, and again Dahlia shrank from the miserable comfort of words. (22)
  • His heart was too full, and he shrank from inquisitive shadows of the thing known to him. (10)
  • And it did seem hard to her that she should have to tell Richard she shrank from any trial. (10)
  • The creature shrank suddenly together and in the guise of a black, agile rat shot towards him. (5)
  • Pippin shrank so visibly that Hemmings seemed troubled by a suspicion that he had gone too far. (8)
  • As he spoke his wife shrank tenderly near him, and March saw her steal her withered hand into his. (9)
  • He saw her following him with alarming intensity, and he shrank from the responsibility before him. (9)
  • Cynthia let a rustic silence ensue, and Westover shrank again from the inquisition he longed to make. (9)
  • Temple, in fact, was falling desperately in love; for this reason he shrank from quitting Riversley. (10)
  • She shrank her hand back: she did not wish to withdraw the hand, only to shun the pledge it signified. (10)
  • Rose blushed and shrank away without answer, and Mrs. March promptly attacked her husband in his behalf. (9)
  • The Ohioan shrank back in his seat, and March felt sorry for him, though he had put himself in the wrong. (9)
  • Although an able man, he was a terrible coward, and shrank from no crime, no falsehood, to gain his ends. (19)
  • He shrank away from those attending him, cowered upon the ground and uttered unintelligible remonstrances. (1)
  • He shrank from them all, as too downright, bluff, and active; too worldly and unaesthetic; or too stiff and narrow. (8)
  • Nesta had seen it, and had taken her impressions; she, too, shrank from it; the more when impelled to draw near it. (10)
  • For her own sake, she shrank from hearing intentions, that distressing the good man, she would have to discountenance. (10)
  • She put on a look of miserable trepidation, and shrank back from the door, while the hum of the bell died away, in the hall. (9)
  • Rozsi, pale and tremulous, with a half-scared look, gave him her hand, and, quickly withdrawing it, shrank behind her sister. (8)
  • He had gone but a little way when his outstretched hand came into contact with something warm, which shrank away with a squeal. (8)
  • The widow now followed the direction of the other eyes; and looked up over her shoulder; she gave a little cry, and shrank down. (9)
  • A groan of dismay went up from the whole circle, and some who had pressed forward for a sight of the slippers, shrank back again. (9)
  • Jeff had turned his face up toward Genevieve, without lifting his person, and was saying something she suddenly shrank back from. (9)
  • I craved for that vibrating music as of her deep heart penetrated and thrilling, but shrank from grateful words which would have sounded payment. (10)
  • Indeed they did not figure at all, they shrank, they withered, they were husks, together with the others for whom she had known passing weaknesses. (8)
  • Nataly shrank from the name of dolomite, detested the name, though the scenes regained their beauty or something of it beneath her showery vision. (10)
  • And benefit for himself, even a small privilege, even the pressure of her hand, he not only shrank from the thought of winning,-he loathed the thought. (10)
  • Gregory shrank a little from her reyankeefied English, as well as from the apparent cynicism of her speech; but he shrank in silence still. (9)
  • He suffered from his Jewishness, shrank nervously from the hatred that he suspected everywhere, repelled every advance, and felt all activity to be futile. (12)

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Definition of shrank:

  • shrank, shrangk, pa.t. of shrink_.(0)

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