shrink
verb (used without object)
to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance.
unshrinking
-
a word derived from
shrink.
Example Sentences
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It is an unshrinking representation of the artist’s full existence—himself, where he lived, where he worked—which acknowledges that even in his success, life wasn’t without its occasional messiness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Out of that misery came the unshrinking “Case History,” for which Mikhailov photographed Kharkiv’s most desperate people and printed them at billboard size.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
In Cleveland, an unshrinking force will meet an unvarying object.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 25, 2020
But The Fall - basically Mark E Smith and whoever he hadn't fallen out with at the time - remained belligerently immoveable as the unfashionable but unshrinking mob in the shadows of the music scene.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2018
Stepping forward, then, Down to the house of death, in vague expectance, I sent a curious, not unshrinking, gaze.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 by Various
