Mannix's eyes slowly contracted until they looked like two tiny shining disks, but otherwise the man did not move.

As more and more sediment was brought in, the margins of the inland sea slowly contracted.

His bearded face was grim, and one hand slowly contracted on his mug, as though he would shatter it.

As the minutes ticked by the globe on the screen contracted slowly.

She slowly contracted a greed for respectability and began to refer to her acting as a pastime.

As the 18th century progressed, the extensive literature in Latin being produced at the beginning slowly contracted.

You put on the pressure, and your lungs slowly contracted, like a pneumatic tire with a leak.

He set it around Circumbright's neck, started it contracting slowly.

Beneath it, the molten mass contracted slowly into an approximation of its original shape.

He slowly contracted the bicep of his right arm.