Words similar to contracted

Example sentences for: contracted

How can you use “contracted” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

She enveloped his throbbing manhood, and the muscles in his thighs contracted while he moaned softly with pleasure, Lewinsky testified.
Finally, the words of a well-known saying may be transposed, or the entire phrase may be contracted to create new meanings:
accurately defining the technical services to be contracted;
account fund has swelled and contracted, depending on the pricing whims of the state's banks.
But the main story in French papers Wednesday was the acquittals of former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius and one of his Cabinet colleagues on charges of criminal negligence and manslaughter in the deaths of hundreds of people who contracted AIDS in the 1980s from transfusions of contaminated blood.