Example Sentences

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Shrinks call this borderline personality disorder, like living on the outside looking in.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2018

Shrinks in literature have an unfortunate habit of becoming overly involved with their clients, and psychotherapist Jessica Mayhew is no exception.

From The Guardian • Mar. 22, 2013

More from TIME: Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks to Second-Lowest Level on Record According to a new study published in the November 6 Nature, that wild card is still wild.

From Time • Nov. 8, 2011

At McNally Jackson Books in SoHo on Wednesday evening, four authors read selections of their work, under the loose theme of having a nervous breakdown, at an annual event called “The Shrinks Are Away!”

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2010

Ah, your half-believing heart Shrinks from that as sacrilege, Or, at least, upon its edge!

From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by MacDonald, George