How to Use shrunken in a Sentence

shrunken

adjective
  • Jean jackets were worn shrunken and cropped.
    — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 23 Sep. 2025
  • More tips to fix shrunken clothes The method above works best on stretchy items like t-shirts and sweatpants.
    — Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The creek is fed from the pure ice of shrunken glaciers above and ancient permafrost in the ground below.
    — Jon Waterman, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Employers have raised wages to compete over a shrunken pool of workers.
    — Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Soak the shrunken garment in the mixture for about 30 minutes.
    — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Baggy fits, cargo jeans and paint splattered barrel jeans are often paired with a shrunken top.
    — Andre Claudio, Sourcing Journal, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Create a shrunken ornament, make your own snowflakes, enjoy snow without the cold and much more.
    — John Coffren, Baltimore Sun, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Due to a shrunken rotation being held even tighter, IU looked tired.
    — Matt Cohen, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Or go store-bought with costumes that include inflatable shoulder pads and a shrunken head prop that straps on top of your head.
    — Isabella Milano, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Forever brag to British friends about having traipsed across their shrunken empire.
    — Steven Potter, Outside Online, 19 Nov. 2024
  • For your 9-to-5, opt for a shrunken blazer beneath an oversized wool coat on the commute.
    — Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The running mice lived up to a year, about normal for a mouse, despite having a shrunken cerebellum.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2016
  • Today, a shrunken pool of buyers are demanding a higher yield to own mortgage bonds.
    — Ben Eisen, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Other denim pieces included straight-leg jeans with a center crease and a shrunken jean jacket.
    — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The blank walls stared at her, vacant pinholes made by previous tenants peering down like dark, shrunken pupils.
    — Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Meanwhile, the three-member school board developed a plan to fit within its shrunken budget.
    — New York Times, 10 July 2022
  • Responding to the wave of violence will be a challenge for Britain’s shrunken state.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN, 6 Aug. 2024
  • There’s a mangled, bloody skeleton with a shrunken head dangling from the Spring Street parking deck.
    — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Pie weights help hold the crust in place during its preliminary bake, preventing air pockets and a shrunken shell.
    — Zoe Denenberg, Bon Appétit, 29 June 2023
  • At night, the serum in the blue bottle delivers teeny-tiny, shrunken hyaluronic acid molecules to prime your skin.
    — Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Many came with matching tulle capes, some shrunken to cover just the arms, shoulders and neckline, others with billowing side trails.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The speakers were agency veterans from the shrunken regional office who did their best to be cheerful.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 7 May 2026
  • In Sephora and beauty subreddits, customers have aired grievances over the shrunken size.
    — Tiana Randall, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
  • And the third is by losing the battle for the seemingly shrunken but still vital pool of swing voters and true independents out there.
    — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Most glaring, the shrunken frame meant the steering wheel was impeding Fever’s ability to use the brake pedal.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 30 Apr. 2026
  • In the shrunken currents of fall, fishing without a strike indicator gives more precise control in the narrow drift lanes.
    — Popular Science, 26 Oct. 2020
  • The tight confines result in cramped arrow keys, a shrunken right Shift key, and a column of page and line navigation keys on the right edge.
    — Mark Knapp, PCMAG, 4 Sep. 2023
  • In the film Wise Bloods, the shrunken head was attached to a fake tiny body and became the object of worship from one of the characters.
    — Naledi Ushe, PEOPLE.com, 10 May 2021
  • In recent years men’s fashion has gravitated away from the shrunken suits and taut jeans of the early 2000s.
    — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2022
  • But its shrunken sense of humor — which, while diminished, still adheres to the series’ brutal, black-comic origins — isn’t so much a slight, as a flex.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 9 Mar. 2025

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