crinkly
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And at a Valentine's Day viewing of Wuthering Heights earlier this year, a woman nearby in the auditorium was eating a huge chocolate heart, unwrapping a crinkly wrapper in the process.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
Lay’s is redoing the bags too, ditching the crinkly sheen for a heavier, matte finish emblazoned with pictures of potatoes and chips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
Although I know plastic is a problem, something still feels friendly about the bright-colored toothpaste tube, the crinkly bag of pasta.
From Slate ● May 28, 2025
Once cooled, they went into crinkly cellophane bags from Party Central, each one tied with a bit of lilac curling ribbon.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2025
Natalie had spent hours turning the crinkly checkerboard wrappers from food trucks into Mariposa money.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
The ferocious beauty has mellowed into a gentler, crinklier handsomeness.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 30, 2019
No," answered Henry, "but it's getting crinklier and crinklier and she looks pinker and pinker, and prettier and prettier, and you ought to see her in her new purple sweater.
From The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by William Allen White
I left Arabella smiling triumphantly through her tears, but when I returned in the evening the breakfast-time frown had reappeared with even crinklier ramifications.
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 8, 1914 by Various
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