The foot is first extended before being contracted suddenly when it acts like a spring, projecting the animal forwards.

However, in early 2009 he suddenly contracted cancer.

The gray flesh reminded him of the corpse he had seen that morning in the hospital, and his heart suddenly contracted with fear.

She looked up at me quickly, her brows contracting suddenly in conjecture.

Her throat suddenly contracted and she could say nothing more.

Imagine the panic if two classrooms of our schoolchildren suddenly contracted a deadly disease.

He concentrated his mind, and the eyes suddenly contracted to the normal eyes of the stranger.

Byrnes' ability had led many to expect great things of him, but he suddenly contracted measles then pneumonia and died on 27 September 1898.

"Oh, Christ," he said, his eyes stinging and his throat suddenly contracting.

His trigger finger suddenly contracted in a last muscular reaction.