How to Use shrink from in a Sentence

shrink from

phrasal verb

• The half-life of skills has shrunk from 30 years to just seven.
  — Tarika Barrett, New York Daily News, 17 July 2024
• In all of Britain, the number of companies has shrunk from 26 to 15 in the last decade.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2023
• Don't look for either team to shrink from the challenge.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2024
• The chart also shows that U.K. duties on U.S. goods will shrink from 5.1% to 1.8%.
  — Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 8 May 2025
• My weight shrunk from an already small size to just over 100 pounds.
  — Raelle Kennedy, Health, 29 Apr. 2025
• Over the past few weeks, the year-to-date deficit has shrunk from 21% to 17%, according to Comscore.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 21 July 2024
• This guy does not shrink from the postseason spotlight, to say the least.
  — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
• Over the past month or so, the year-to-date deficit has shrunk from 21% to 17%, according to Comscore.
  — Variety, NBC News, 21 July 2024
• As hip-hop grew and rock radio faded, the spotlight shrank from the genre.
  — Stuart Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023
• The share of respondents who were unsure shrunk from 31% to 25%.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025
• There is no doubt that the contracting group will shrink from 70 to less than 7 people.
  — Nathan Furr, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
• Since the Cold War, its force has shrunk from about five hundred and fifty surface ships to roughly half that.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
• While Fesenko waits for the sappers to come, his staff has shrunk from 30 workers to three.
  — Alice Martins, Washington Post, 28 May 2023
• The West, far from shrinking from the fight, rallies, with the United States decisively in the lead.
  — Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 6 Apr. 2022
• The final scene is the group of shrinks from the beginning marveling at the crazy saga while riding in a boat together.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025
• With Catz’s exit, Disney’s board will shrink from 12 to 11 members.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 July 2024
• If the mayor’s budget is adopted, this would be the first time in many years that the city’s general fund would shrink from one fiscal year to the next.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2025
• The euro was the biggest loser, with its share in the basket shrinking from 37 percent to 31 percent.
  — Eswar Prasad, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
• In part because of the conversion from pine to avocado trees, the rainy season has shrunk from around six months to three.
  — Alexander Sammon, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• Under the proposal, the number of repayment plans would shrink from roughly a dozen to just two.
  — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2025
• Yet for the reader, the book is clearly a cautionary tale about the cost of self-deception and the senselessness of shrinking from love.
  — June Thomas, New York Times, 16 June 2023
• Samantha has watched her class at Wilcox Academy shrink from 22 to 13 students.
  — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 18 May 2024
• After this week’s tournament, the playoff field will shrink from 70 to 50 players.
  — Dennis Esser, The Athletic, 14 Aug. 2024
• Most other cities, surveyed by the report, also saw sales shrink from a year ago to varying extents.
  — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 9 Oct. 2024
• Grinch should have been long gone before Sunday, and Riley isn’t the only one who has been shrinking from his duty.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2023
• At the same time, Starbucks’ executive ranks shrunk from 54 people to 36.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
• As the moon agitates the sun, insecurities prompt you to shrink from a debate.
  — Usa Today, USA Today, 9 May 2025
• Minority groups made up a smaller share of Texas buyers, shrinking from 30% to 23% of the market.
  — Mitchell Parton, Dallas News, 26 May 2023
• But less than three weeks after its release, the year-over-year domestic box office revenue deficit shrunk from 27% to 19%.
  — Eva Rothenberg, CNN, 28 July 2024
• Although the music is Rachmaninoff, big and Romantic, the dancers shrink from large gestures, wary-eyed.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 5 June 2024