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388 examples of Shrink in a sentence

You've got to shrink it down and be about one issue."
So if you think of cancer as a weed, we often can whack the weed away and it seems to shrink, but it often comes back.
But I just need to shrink you by a factor of 1000, to a scale where the diameter of a human hair is as big as my hand.
If scholars did this, the degrees of separation between the public and research would shrink by a lot.
In opera, we shrink those stairs so that our main characters can glide up and down effortlessly without ever breaking their voice.
But as efficiency in buildings and industry starts to grow faster than the economy, America's electricity use could actually shrink, even with the little extra use required for those efficient electrified autos.
And then TED challenged me: "Philippe, can you shrink this lifetime to 18 minutes?"
What this means is that if you could shrink the Earth to the size of a billiard ball, if you could take planet Earth, with all its mountain tops and caves and rainforests, astronauts and uncontacted tribes and chimpanzees, voodoo dolls, fireflies, chocolate, sea creatures making love in the deep blue sea, you just shrink that to the size of a billiard ball, it would be as smooth as a billiard ball, presumably a billiard ball with a slight bulge around the middle.
Due to weathering, due to U.V. light, due to oxidation, this binder, this bitumen, the glue between the aggregates is going to shrink, and if it shrinks, it gets micro-cracks, and it delaminates from the aggregates.
If you wanted to get into the right ballpark, you'd have to imagine every grain of sand on every beach, under all the oceans and lakes, and then shrink them all so they fit in here.
It's the politics that's hard, indeed impossibly hard, because this reform would shrink K Street, and Capitol Hill, as Congressman Jim Cooper, a Democrat from Tennessee, put it, has become a farm league for K Street, a farm league for K Street.
Is all of our brain going to start to shrink and atrophy like that?
Now these are controversial questions, and so we tend to shrink from them.
For fear of disagreement, we shrink from these questions.
The cancer begins to shrink, and for the third time, we've dodged death.
Now, mathematicians thought this was very strange because as you shrink a ruler down, you measure a longer and longer length.
America, when we have a challenge, we take it head on, we don't shrink away from it.
We need to shrink them to the point, within the next five years, that they no longer pose a systemic risk.
Let's by all means shrink the size of government, but not by slashing the poverty programs, but by ensuring that workers are paid enough so that they actually don't need those programs.
Yet in the same animal, if we wait just a little while until it's gone to sleep, what we see is that the CSF is rushing through the brain, and we discovered that at the same time when the brain goes to sleep, the brain cells themselves seem to shrink, opening up spaces in between them, allowing fluid to rush through and allowing waste to be cleared out.
It's smaller than a honking-big MRI machine, monster MRI machine, but can you do something to shrink it down?"
Now, since these bacteria specifically localize to tumors, we've been programming them to not only detect cancer but also to treat cancer by producing therapeutic molecules from within the tumor environment that shrink the existing tumors, and we've been doing this using quorum sensing programs like you saw in the previous movies.
The other is that you have to realize that it is a random access medium, and you can, in fact, branch and expand and elaborate and shrink.
If you think your poverty is the result of your own inadequacy, you shrink into despair.
You've swallowed hard the contents of the "Drink Me" bottle, and felt yourself shrink.
You had to take a spaceship, shrink it down, inject it into the bloodstream.
First, I propose that we shrink the size of the hallways.
So institutions could shrink or contract, as, of course, the future of culture is, in a way, the most uncertain of all.
Let's imagine that we can shrink down to the size of an electron and inject ourselves into a click of a mouse.
After this productive period, signals within the skin instruct some follicles to enter a new phase known as catagen, or the regressing stage, causing hair follicles to shrink to a fraction of their original length.
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