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

"I meant to have forgotten him," replied Lucy, shrinkingly; "but what of him?"

From Mabel, Vol. III (of 3) A Novel by Newby, Emma

As the wild plaints of Isabel pierced into his bosom's core, they carried with them the first inkling of the extraordinary conceit, so vaguely and shrinkingly hinted at in her till now entirely unintelligible words.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

"Oh, I couldn't be president," said Ethel Blue shrinkingly.

From Ethel Morton at Chautauqua by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)

"Oh, I couldn't sing all alone," objected Dorothy shrinkingly.

From Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)