For a shrinking and retiring person, our heroine had been liberal of her favors.
Millions of monarch butterflies travel to ancestral winter roosts in Mexico's shrinking mountain fir forests.
Researchers don't know why brains might be shrinking, but some theorize that they're evolving to be more efficient.
And in the shrinking room when he entered, as on the day before, he found Kemerer as respectful and evasive as ever.
As we speak, cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Arctic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic, and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya.
Rainforests are shrinking at an alarming rate.
She was shrinking away in spirit from this man.
Bereavements are raining into my life which are making my shrinking heart quiver in its intensity of suffering.
What worries me most is that as we - so far unsuccessfully - try to gather the political consensus to take decisive action, opportunities for the younger generation are shrinking.
With the economy still shedding jobs (albeit at a lower rate), share prices falling, the housing market still wobbly and household debt shrinking, consumer spending is likely to remain subdued.
The economy is shrinking instead of growing.
Many are worried about the long-term viability of BlackBerry given its shrinking market share.
The Warp will be the most useful, however "Pucker" and "Bloat" are best for shrinking or expanding the area.
A study by the United Nations Environment Programme has just concluded that the pollutant has played a major part in shrinking the Himalayan glaciers and has helped to disrupt the south Asian monsoon.
Thanks to ecological devastation, the wilderness is shrinking.
With all her love of knowledge she had a natural shrinking from raising curtains and looking into unlighted corners.
One explanation for the divergence of output and employment, which started to emerge while the economy was still shrinking, is that firms are now able to wring more productivity out of their workers.
She' s no shrinking violet always ready to speak up for herself.
He seemed to have no idea of shrinking from it, and set forward at last most punctually with his eldest daughter in his own carriage.
By early next year, output and jobs could be shrinking. The main cause is the imploding housing market.
Economic shrinking has finally been overpassed now.
She is no shrinking violet.
In working with this cloth, be sure to allow for shrinking.
Trade and redistribution under the condition of shrinking resources would not help much because the ecological stress was at a global or very large regional scale.
Needs are limited, but not greeds. Science has developed no cure for envy, so our wealth boosts our happiness only briefly while shrinking that of our neighbors.
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