Example sentences for: shrunk

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

  • 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.

  • A thriving economy and higher military standards have shrunk the pool of potential volunteers.

  • Stocks have shrunk from 76 percent of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s assets in 1996 to 32 percent currently.

  • The actress, now in her 70s, has shrunk in physical stature but has otherwise swelled--I don't remember her having such power in her lungs.

  • 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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