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Example sentences for: contracted

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Actually, I suppose he is suggesting that the farmers/ranchers are to blame, since it is during their stewardship that the bacteria are contracted.
During a scuffle with Native Americans he broke his leg and contracted gangrene, which was to prove fatal, but his crew pushed on as far as Oregon.
account fund has swelled and contracted, depending on the pricing whims of the state's banks.
Patients with peripheral edema or ascites have excess body water and salt and are not dehydrated, though their intravascular volume may be contracted due to hypoalbuminemia.
She enveloped his throbbing manhood, and the muscles in his thighs contracted while he moaned softly with pleasure, Lewinsky testified.