Shrinking has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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1. | The Palestinian territory keeps shrinking and shrinking. | |
2. | The shrinking of the domestic market has been blamed on inflation. | |
3. | She's no shrinking violet. | |
4. | Cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Arctic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic, and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya. | |
5. | The Japanese population is shrinking. | |
6. | Many a wild flower formed by the Almighty Hand to be a perfumed goblet for the dew, felt its enamelled cup filled high with blood that day, and shrinking dropped. | |
7. | The Arctic ice is shrinking because the ocean under the ice is warming. | |
8. | "Ten days the seer, as shrinking to reply / or name a victim, did the doom withhold." | |
9. | Tom is a shrinking violet. | |
10. | Tom is a bit of a shrinking violet. |