Draw back, as with fear or pain.
A reflex response to sudden pain.
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Examples for "shrink "
Examples for "shrink "
1 But perhaps money market funds need to shrink for the greater good.
2 As a result they no longer work and they start to shrink .
3 Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today.
4 Its economy is expected to shrink this year due to austerity measures.
5 Investors paid up for companies that did not shrink potential future production.
1 The chap in the near-by funk hole began to amuse me now.
2 From the opening dialled-up funk salvo of Music: Response I was hooked.
3 The funk does half the business in a man of that build.
4 Major misstep: an inexplicable lack of Brazilian favela funk tracks about butts.
5 Two days later, I'm still in a funk about my roommates' gay-bashing.
1 She said, 'I suppose there will be a certain amount of recoil . '
2 This was a good weapon, well-balanced, large trigger, rubber grip, short recoil .
3 The recoil would bury it in the earth if they tried that.
4 But I was ashamed to recoil in the presence of the hunter.
5 Some recoil in terror before that test; others, feeble and affrighted, vacillate.
1 The quail on the side-hills were still sounding the clear water call.
2 Others ran up the mountain-side, and cowered in the brush like quail .
3 And Paul was not the most daring cock quail in the stubble.
4 Again he heard the distant report of the shot-gun from the quail - hunters .
5 A quail whistled from the tangle of blackberry briars by the roadside.
1 It's not great either, but it's far from an entirely cringe - worthy catastrophe.
2 I used to cringe whenever his name came up in history class.
3 They will make you cringe , cry and not question making better choices.
4 What is meant to look macho is actually the cringe of panic.
5 Within the treasure cards deck, there are three cringe - inducing Waters Rise cards.
1 Just saying that name makes my lips squinch up like I ate something bad.
2 She's no soft-heart to squinch at the sight of blood, and that sort of foolery.
3 They used to talk 'bout ha'nts and squinch owls.
4 Okada rose and bowed his squinch - owl bow.
5 That there's what comes o' being so dad-blame' hongry that ye can't squinch fair atween the gun-sights.
1 However, the Vaqueros didn't flinch and drew within seven points at intermission.
2 She had never seen him flinch from the dangers his research entailed.
3 They didn't even flinch at the gunfire, just kept right on coming.
4 Erius gave no sign that he'd heard, but Tobin saw Korin flinch .
5 He took a step forward, but stopped when he saw her flinch .
6 He brought up the gun quickly; Trevor let himself flinch a little.
7 He would not flinch in carrying it out to the last letter.
8 Arch did not flinch ; he bore the insulting scrutiny with stony calmness.
9 Then her interest drifted to another picture, and Rhodes saw her flinch .
10 Even having made his decision, Jonas could not help but flinch away.
11 He seemed almost to flinch from the formal use of his name.
12 But Juba must have considered the possibility already, because he didn't flinch .
13 Often death stared me in the face, and I did not flinch .
14 I felt Ramses flinch and tried to free myself from his weight.
15 A second howl burst out of the night causing her to flinch .
16 His gestures of impatience were almost violent; but she would not flinch .
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