shrink from

phrasal verb

shrank from or shrunk from; shrunk from or shrunken from; shrinking from; shrinks from

: to try to avoid (something difficult or unpleasant) : to be unwilling to do (something)

He doesn't shrink from telling the truth, no matter how painful it may be.

She won't shrink from the task.

Examples of shrink from in a Sentence

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For instance, Which? found that Terrys Chocolate Orange Easter egg with Mini Eggs have shrunk from 230g to 200g in the last year. —Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 22 Mar. 2024

Of those, the number of agencies required to cut water use more than 30% would shrink from 84 to 47. —Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024

The do-over in The Gentlemen that improves on the original is the one that doubles down on its potential instead of shrinking from it. —Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2024

Reading passages are much shorter, a calculator can be used for the entire duration of the math portion and the total testing time has shrunk from three hours to two. —Aubrey Gelpieryn, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2024

That’s a 400,000 increase in membership from the year before, but because of the growth of the labor force, the share of union members shrank from 10.1% in 2022. —Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2024

Don't look for either team to shrink from the challenge. —Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2024

In mid-2022, hundreds of members were killed in several consecutive wars with rival gangs and police shootouts, according to a September 2023 U.N. report, which estimated the gang shrunk from about 500 members to about 80. —Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 5 Mar. 2024

The number of models eligible for the full federal tax credit of $7,500, or partial $3,750 credit, shrank from 43 last year to fewer than 15 that comply with criteria on the books currently. —J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 14 Jan. 2024