Example sentences for: shrunk

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

  • 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.

  • Transistors have already shrunk to one five-hundredth the width of a human hair.

  • The distinction blurs a bit in Fantastic Voyage , the movie where Raquel Welch was part of a medical team shrunk to microscopic size and injected into the body of some guy with a brain tumor.

  • Finally, a comparison of annual growth rates for 1993-97 in Table 3 with those in Table 6 shows the following: (a) the 5.9 percent annual decrease of the total number of payments in Table 3 has been augmented to a 7.2 percent annual decrease of the number of payments per household in Table 6; and (b) the 1.0 percent annual increase of total number of bills in Table 3 has shrunk to a 0.3 percent annual decrease of the number of bills per household in Table 6.

  • Trade and investment have shrunk to zero, capital flight reached more than $20 billion in the last three months, and the country's foreign reserves could be completely exhausted by the end of June.


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