The whole roof space seemed to be shrinking around her.
"With the sickness and all, the ville must be shrinking around its own ears."
The room shrank around her, vanishing until they were the only two people left on the sea.
The castle shrank around them, and they drifted out through its substance.
The illumination cast by the bonfire seemed to shrink around him.
Her world shrunk to the face of the cliff around her.
Kiril felt a touch of fear and the walls seemed to shrink around him.
Even as defense budgets shrink around most of the globe, a naval arms race is under way in Asia.
The eyes retain their size while the head shrinks around them.
And though its characters sense their futures shrinking around them, they themselves never, ever seem small.