How to Use shrink from in a Sentence

shrink from

phrasal verb
Definition of shrink fromnext
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • With Catz’s exit, Disney’s board will shrink from 12 to 11 members.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The do-over in The Gentlemen that improves on the original is the one that doubles down on its potential instead of shrinking from it.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2024
  • No official reason was given for the move, which the company said would result in the board shrinking from 12 members to 11.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 19 July 2024
  • In fact, Boxer was never one during her 24 years in Washington to shrink from a partisan brawl.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
  • Lots of skinny-dipping was happening as the crypto market cap shrank from $3 trillion to a little over $1 trillion in just a few months.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2023
  • That has always been the shameless argument of rich, polluting nations in the politics of climate change, and Sunak did not shrink from it at all.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2023
  • All Democracy Is Global America can’t shrink from the fight for freedom.
    — Foreign Affairs, 6 Jan. 2021
  • Our parents didn’t shrink from any of that ruckus, and probably couldn’t have, anyway, because so much was going on and seemed relevant.
    — Ellen Murphy, Kansas City Star, 5 June 2024
  • But former employees at Oatlands, where the staff has shrunk from 15 just a few years ago to two today, have spoken out against the merits of the suit and raised concerns about the site’s management.
    — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
  • Over the years, as the number of apps bringing eggs and apples to your doorstep has proliferated, the waiting time for delivery has shrunk from days to a few hours (if not minutes).
    — Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 18 June 2024
  • Republican lawmakers said the change was overdue since 2003, when the Cabinet shrank from six to three members.
    — Beth Reinhard, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2023
  • Reading passages are much shorter, a calculator can be used for the entire duration of the math portion and the total testing time has shrunk from three hours to two.
    — Aubrey Gelpieryn, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Butcher never shrinks from explaining tough material, the better to show how essential one of the darkest jobs in the city is to our justice system.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
  • How else to explain how the preseason schedule has shrunk from six to three games and hardly any regulars play, especially in the early contests?
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2023

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