shrunk

Example Sentences

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The ones that could make a person feel like they’d tumbled out of a dryer slightly shrunk.

From Literature

Even before the task force’s launch, there was growing concern from the public and some elected officials that the billions spent to combat homelessness hasn’t meaningfully shrunk the number of people sleeping on the street.

From Los Angeles Times

The scientists said more than half of the world’s large lakes have shrunk since the 1990s.

From Los Angeles Times

Compared with large companies, small ones tend to be more sensitive to domestic manufacturing, which has shrunk for years, and to higher tariff costs.

From Barron's

Since 2007 coal power generation in the US has shrunk by 64%, with last year's rise only the second in the last decade.

From BBC