How to Use shrink in a Sentence

shrink

1 of 2 verb

• The sweater shrank when it was washed.
• The treatment should shrink the tumor.
• Hot water shrank the sweater.
• Meat shrinks as it cooks.
• He shrank in horror when he saw the dead cat.
• The town's population shrank during the war.
• And right now, in Texas, far too many of us are fish in a shrinking rock pool.
  — Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2023
• As the size of those holes shrinks, so will the unevenness of the paper’s terrain.
  — Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• Note that some shoppers said these shrink in the wash, so be sure to buy a size up or hand wash.
  — Kristine Solomon, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2024
• And Ada Tseng gives tips to parents on how to shrink those big piles of plastic toys.
  — Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• The center’s staff shrank to a skeleton crew, and the many ambitious projects came to a halt.
  — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
• But what Apfel chose to do was anything but shrink herself.
  — Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2024
• Sununu has also called on the field to shrink as the main means to overcome Trump in a primary.
  — Natasha Korecki, NBC News, 20 Oct. 2023
• Here’s a look at the early field, which could grow or shrink before the May 2024 primary date.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2023
• But by noon, the crime scene had shrunk to a square of brick sidewalk on P Street NW, cordoned off with police tape.
  — Alexandra Ma, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2024
• But, before any of that happens, the researchers plan to work on shrinking down the size of the tools, and maybe even fiddling with the concept of taste next.
  — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 11 May 2023
• Keep in Mind The high walls shrink the cooking surface and the handle got quite hot during cooking.
  — Barbara Bellesi Zito, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 July 2023
• The flesh shrinks and drops about 20 percent of its weight, creating meat with rich umami.
  — Ann Maloney, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
• But as of last year, the restaurant drastically shrank the options down to a mere 10 sauces.
  — Dennis Lee / The Takeout, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024
• Trump’s head is so large that the sheriff’s department appears to have shrunk its logo to make room.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
• The number of grand juries that have convened has shrunk, but the number of cases has increased.
  — Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 5 May 2023
• And each of the last few years, the gap in performance between the two songs has shrunk, though Carey’s has thus far remained the decisive leader.
  — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 29 Nov. 2023
• The Great Red Spot has been shrinking in the last decade and may soon fade or disappear altogether.
  — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 5 Jan. 2024
• Bonus: after putting Patagonia Baggies through wash-and-dry over five times, the waistband has not shrunk at all!
  — Maverick Li, Men's Health, 24 July 2023
• But now Silver says all the data wizardry in the world won’t matter much when budgets start shrinking.
  — Bypaige Hagy, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2023
• But residual-fee rates have shrunk in the streaming era, even as the volume of residual payments has risen with the TV boom.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 10 May 2023
• Trade between the United States also shrank by 12.3 percent.
  — Philip Wang, CNN, 7 June 2023
• Boston has shrunk in population since the nineteen-fifties, and Wu sees housing as the key to regrowth.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2024
• The Fed was shrinking its balance sheet at record speed, far faster than Hanke had expected.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 May 2023
• In the war’s first year, the total wealth of the 20 richest Ukrainians shrank by more than $20 billion, according to Forbes magazine.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2024

Advertisement

shrink

2 of 2 noun

• He is seeing a shrink.
• The strapping is thin enough to flex which makes a nice smooth arch to shape the shrink wrap.
  — Popmech Editors, Popular Mechanics, 21 Nov. 2019
• When the temps start to rise, removing the tape and shrink film is easy.
  — Belle Duchene, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Oct. 2023
• To the untrained eye, Ms. Lifton’s kitchen looks as if it has been hit with a shrink ray.
  — Jess Eng, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• The twist: the shrink is being held against his will as part of the killer’s quest to free himself of his demons.
  — Keith Phipps, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2022
• So all of this goes into a store’s or a chain’s shrink level.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2023
• As the Shrek firms grow, in other words, their hunting-ground shrinks.
  — The Economist, 6 Feb. 2020
• The big shrink raised EPS by around one-third over that period.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 June 2020
• Theft of goods from sales floors is only one part of that seven cents of shrink.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2021
• Downhill to one’s shrink, then an uphill struggle on the walk back: a very Eliot-like odyssey.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
• The stack of stuff is then shrink-wrapped and loaded onto a delivery truck.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2021
• The narrator quits his job, fires his shrink, and sets off on a road trip, just as Acosta did.
  — Abby Aguirre, The New Yorker, 13 July 2021
• Google The battery is 306 mAh, and while that's not different from last year, the shrink to 4 nm should help with the battery a lot.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 2023
• Any dime-store shrink will attest that humans learn abuse, they’re not born with it.
  — Tom Nunan, Forbes, 5 May 2021
• And Coel works through them with the control of a pilot, a jockey, a geometer, a shrink.
  — New York Times, 10 Dec. 2020
• As its habitat shrinks, so too do the cotton-top tamarin’s hopes for survival.
  — National Geographic, 30 Jan. 2020
• Or how much the average person grows (or shrinks) at each age?
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
• Polar bears are spending more and more time on land, Abrahms said, as their hunting grounds on the ice shrink.
  — Nidhi Sharma, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2023
• First the habitat shrinks, then the forage, then the population.
  — Matt Wyatt, ExpressNews.com, 13 Feb. 2020
• The flashback is soon revealed to have been a dream, a recurring nightmare that Bucky’s shrink asks him about the next day.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2021
• Early in the year, the United States economy recorded a 1.4% shrink in the first quarter.
  — Yec, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
• There is great joy in laughing 90 percent of the day as opposed to needing a shrink after work.
  — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 2 Sep. 2019
• Even people who bought as recently as a week ago have seen their $1,000 shrink.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 10 May 2022
• Which means the county, and others like it, see their potential tax base shrink.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 6 Oct. 2019
• Jump behind the other trolls and naysayers and get on board the next shuttle, which will take you to an eye doctor or a shrink.
  — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 18 Nov. 2022
• But the downgrade doesn't stop at a shrink to 1080p resolution.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 5 Nov. 2020
• Late in the fourth quarter, the Pacers were struggling to close out the lowly Rockets, letting a 22-point lead shrink to eight.
  — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Apr. 2021
• The White House would blast a budgetary shrink-ray at the agency - a 12 percent reduction to $7.1 billion.
  — oregonlive, 19 Mar. 2019
• India has a young, vast work force that is expanding as China’s ages and shrinks.
  — Alex Travelli, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
• India has a young, vast work force that is expanding as China's ages and shrinks.
  — Time, 28 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024