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

An Outpost Shrinks on a Japanese Island A community of descendants of 19th-century settlers is shrinking in Chichi Jima, as young people leave the settlement, a 25-hour ferry ride from Tokyo.

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2012

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

Little by little my sunlit space Shrinks to a narrowing path of light; Further and further with dread I trace The sure advance of approaching night.

From Poems by Stoddard, John L. (John Lawson)