To be contracted by another person into a single being how strange.

At other times, they contract back into the safety of the skeleton.

My hands contracted into fists, and I could feel myself begin to shut down.

The blue screen contracted into a pinpoint, then opened up.

Then he heard a low grumbling of many voices, and the crowd seemed to contract into itself.

The world was contracting into a tiny gray ball the size of a prison cell.

In others it became contracted into a pattern of slits.

Something in her chest contracted into a tight, aching ball.

The blue layer contracted into a thin band at, the horizon.

More than 4.6m people have contracted out of the state scheme into personal pension plans since their introduction in 1986.