shrinkingly
Example Sentences
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In the middle of the world's biggest war, a shrinkingly sensitive first novel with a 1920 theme has become a 1943 bestseller.
From Time Magazine Archive
Timorous and trembling, our faint-hearted modern lovers gird on their new frock-coats and step shrinkingly into the arena where awaits them—radiant and triumphant—the determined being whose will has brought them thither.
From Modern marriage and how to bear it by Maud Churton Braby
Frail as she was, almost shrinkingly timid in her manner, there were times when she drew up her tall figure in something like its former stateliness.
From The Window at the White Cat by Mary Roberts Rinehart
And she listened shrinkingly, with averted face, absorbed in her own bewildered pain and disappointment.
From Love and hatred by Marie Belloc Lowndes
Dane waited shrinkingly to hear Cassandra’s name, but he waited in vain.
From Lady Cassandra by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
