Similar words: contract, contract rate, contractor, contraction, contracting, social contract, contractual liability, extracted. Meaning: [kən'træktɪd] adj. reduced in size or pulled together.
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91. More than 4.6m people have contracted out of the state scheme into personal pension plans since their introduction in 1986.
92. Orwell contracted tuberculosis during the war and eventually died from the disease.
93. The cylinder swelled and contracted with the changing atmospheric pressure.
94. Doctors were unable to determine how Venetti had contracted the disease.
95. The attending physicians in Munich were very guarded in their theories as to how she had contracted it.
96. In contracted to sell wine on terms that after the contract the wine would be stored for the purchaser by the vendor.
97. About 4.5 billion years ago a large cloud of gas slowly contracted under gravity into the glowing ball that became the Sun.
98. Four years ago, Johnson contracted food poisoning prior to the Olympics, the illness sapping his strength and ruining his conditioning.
99. As a result he contracted encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain.
100. Damaged or destroyed muscles eventually became replaced with fibrous tissues that shortened and contracted.
101. But where a disease is contracted by the defendant, more intractable difficulties arise.
102. The board fired the garbage collection service and contracted with another young man, on condition that he hire Kenilworth-Parkside residents.
103. But if you are close to these ages and not currently contracted out it may not be worth changing your status.
104. The number of Westerners alleged to have contracted the disease as a result of assisting lepers was said to be increasing.
105. As a result of a concussion he contracted spinal meningitis and almost died.
106. Metal pendulum rods expanded with heat, contracted when cooled and beat out seconds at different tempos, depending on the temperature.
107. His mouth never seemed to alter in shape; rather it expanded and contracted proportionally when he spoke.
108. So it can not be ruled out that this man had contracted his HIV from polio vaccine a few weeks before.
109. During this period he contracted to serve Edward for life and from 1317 he was summoned to Parliament.
110. It was while he was besieging that town that the king contracted a fatal illness.
111. It was a shrunken Frank(Sentencedict), whose body seemed to have contracted out of sympathy with his shrivelled spirit.
112. They must have contracted them from bacteria transported from the teeming insanitary slums on the other side of town.
113. My stomach contracted and my heart went into a somersault.
114. BAeSEMA has been contracted by the navy to come up with a new design for bridges incorporating the latest in ergonomic practice.
115. Sucden and Phibro contracted this year to buy 500,000 tonnes of cocoa from the Ivory Coast, the world's biggest producer.
116. Like a lot of people excited over these prospects, I have recently contracted a terrible case of cabin fever.
117. With that new black Schwinn Racer, I contracted with our local paper for a delivery route.
118. Then press upwards until the arms are locked straight out and the triceps are fully contracted.
119. One old stalwart who stuck with the whole match contracted such a severe cold that he died of exposure.
120. The volunteers who drank alcohol contracted fewer colds during the study period than did the volunteers who drank no alcohol.
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