Example sentences for: shrunk

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

  • The economy has shrunk for eight consecutive years, and the vast majority of Russians are struggling.

  • Paris is no longer the ultimate mecca for ambitious young French from the prov­inces; cities around the country are attracting young professionals who want to escape the more frenetic life in the Ile de France; the number of agricultural workers has shrunk dramatically; industrial and high-tech centers have sprung up around the country; provincial cities are developing their own international reputations; and immigration and increasing migration of populations within a “border-free” Euro­pean Union are blurring the edges of the French identity.

  • The year 1821 marked the beginning of the Greek War of Independence, which resulted in victory for the Greeks in 1832, and another loss of territory for the Ottomans, whose empire had shrunk significantly.

  • I was boning up for our Yeltsin coverage over the weekend and read that their GDP has shrunk 43 percent since 1990.

  • As shrunk is a past and past participle of shrink and not, properly, an adjective, I am not sure why it is there in place of shrunken , especially since Mikhail specifically writes in his Preface, Only words listed in standard language dictionaries as adjectives are included in this Dictionary.


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