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Meanings of grown smaller in English

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Usage of grown smaller in English
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Standardized times have grown increasingly important as the world has grown smaller.
Wired
2
But as Jaz said, it had grown smaller over the years.
Worldwinder
3
He went in with the Garuly, who had also grown smaller.
Queer Stories for Boys and Girls
4
His face seemed to have shriveled or melted; his features had grown smaller.
War and Peace
5
He seemed to have grown smaller and to have shrunk into his clothes.
The Escape of Mr. Trimm / His Plight and other Plights
6
You seem to have shrunken since I saw you last-tohave grown smaller.
The Cinema Murder
7
For the moment the world had grown smaller, more intimate, as the skies expanded.
The Killer
8
Her hands and feet had grown smaller, her elbows rounder.
Paul Kelver
9
The house had grown smaller with the passing years.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
10
In that time, Ramos says ABPW has grown smaller.
The Guardian
11
I felt as though Sister Marie-Aimée had grown smaller.
Marie Claire
12
He did not look ill, only, in some unaccountable way, he seemed to have grown smaller.
The Reason Why
13
Kalle wore a new gray linsey-woolsey suit; he had grown smaller and more bent with the years.
Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02
14
His world has grown smaller, and he is losing control, bit by bit, over his physical self.
The warmth of other suns: the epic story of america's great migr...
15
Only it was as if the ring of sea to windward had of a sudden grown smaller.
A Sea Queen's Sailing
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Her dear little face had grown smaller, and seemed to have gone further back into her cap.
Marie Claire
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