He was using the one weapon from which they instinctively shrank.

You instinctively shrink from pain as the laundry shrinks your cotton shirt.

She shrank back from him instinctively, but he held out his hand in a soothing gesture.

It was odd how Creep shrank instinctively into the deeper darkness of the room.

Now he raised something to his eye, and the two men shrank back instinctively, although they knew the darkness protected them.

If we ask a sane man how much he merits, his mind shrinks instinctively and instantaneously.

The unknown with all its terrors rushed upon him, and he shrank back instinctively into the shelter of the bush.

She instinctively shrank from them if they passed close.

The natives shrank instinctively from the Japanese soldiers, who ignored them.

He was on his feet so fast that she instinctively shrank back.