Indicative Present (simple): Bruno Delavigne notices that the Delavigne Corporation's market share shrinks every time a competitor launches a flashy new fragrance campaign.
Indicative Present progressive / continuous: The perfumer's patience is shrinking by the minute as the Pamplona hotel staff struggles to locate his reservation.
Indicative Past (simple): Horatio Oléré shrrank back in alarm the first time Bruno demonstrated his fragrance fire prevention techniques in the Delavigne Corporation boardroom.
Indicative Past progressive / continuous: The crowd of fellow bull-runners was shrinking fast as Bruno Delavigne rounded the final corner in Pamplona, utterly undeterred.
Indicative Present perfect (simple): The noseless perfumer has shrunk his personal carbon footprint considerably since taking up surfing instead of flying between San Francisco and Montmartre every month.
Indicative Present perfect progressive / continuous: Bruno has been shrinking the gap between luxury perfumery and environmental responsibility ever since he took over his grandfather Xavier's tiny shop.
Indicative Past perfect: By the time the Delavigne Corporation's annual report was published, the budget for new fragrances had shrunk to a fraction of its former size.
Indicative Past perfect progressive / continuous: Bruno's confidence in his surfing instructor had been shrinking steadily before Horatio Oléré showed up and accidentally outperformed them both on the first wave.
Indicative Future: The grandson of Xavier believes the distance between artisan perfumery and mass-market cosmetics will shrink as consumers demand more authenticity.
Indicative Future progressive / continuous: By the time Bruno reaches San Francisco next spring, the Delavigne Corporation's production costs will be shrinking thanks to his new eco-friendly initiatives.
Indicative Future perfect: Bruno will have shrunk the company's environmental impact by thirty percent before the decade is out, if his latest charity partnerships hold.
Indicative Future perfect progressive / continuous: By the time Horatio retires, the two old friends will have been shrinking the Delavigne Corporation's waste output together for nearly thirty years.
Conditional Simple: The San Francisco surfer would shrink from no challenge — whether facing a raging bull in Pamplona or a hostile board of directors in his own headquarters.
Conditional Progressive: Without Bruno's tireless advocacy, the Delavigne Corporation's environmental charity fund would be shrinking rather than growing every quarter.
Conditional Perfect: Bruno would have shrunk from the perfume industry entirely after his terrible accident if Xavier's memory had not given him the courage to carry on.
Conditional Perfect progressive: The CEO's ambitions would have been shrinking year after year if Horatio Oléré had not been there to remind him how far they had both come from Montmartre.
Imperative Imperative: « Do not shrink from this challenge, Horatio — fragrance fire prevention will not promote itself, » Bruno declared, striding into the Delavigne Corporation press conference.
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