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He avoids kissing for 24 hours before a performance and 48 hours before a competition because it makes it difficult to sustain a pucker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

These compounds, which look like rings at the molecular level, interact with proteins in your saliva to produce a dry, astringent sensation that makes your mouth pucker.

From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024

Mattel should have considered traditional pucker toe moccasins, instead of black shoes, and included symbols on the basket that Cherokees use to tell a story, she said.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2023

In other words, this complex dance between art, anatomy, and archaeology can bring the past almost to life—one eyelash, pucker, and pore at a time.

From National Geographic ● Oct. 23, 2023

A marble rolls around the pucker in a orbit like that of a planet around the Sun.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Fattoush is one of the bright, simple joys of summer: Tomatoes spill sunshine, pita shards and cucumbers take turns showing off their snap, sumac puckers, and mint and parsley cool, often, in a single bite.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2022

The crunchy onion gives a little sweetness while the pickle puckers in the most pleasing way to cut through all that heat.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2022

As my forehead sadly puckers, I will play them all for suckers, Yes, I'll con the rubes in Maine.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2021

Bose says it has refined the design in subtle ways: according to the company, “pleats and puckers have been removed from soft materials, and gaps between components have been replaced with smooth transitions.”

From The Verge ● Aug. 31, 2021

But now, with most of the rivers cut into pieces and lakes left as grey sludge puckers on the landscape, my own history seemed like a myth along the lines of dragons.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

In fact a laundry list of laundry terms could apply: folded, pressed, softened, agitated, pleated, creased, puckered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Hashtags such as #sunburntanlines, #sunpoisoning and #sunstroke are popping up alongside videos of young men and women - some in tears - revealing deep red, almost purple, often puckered skin.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2025

Nandina domestica ‘Firepower’ is a compact form of heavenly bamboo that forms a mounded 2-by-2-foot tuffet of slightly puckered evergreen foliage.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 31, 2022

He puckered his lips and blew, as if spitting spitting water while laughing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2022

Her mouth puckered in displeasure, but then her eyes flicked to the tray.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

Astringency is the dry, puckering, rough, or sandpapery feeling people notice when eating foods rich in certain plant compounds called polyphenols.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2026

Nobel’s Super Lemon Sour Candy will surely have your mouth watering and puckering.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2025

Beyond the gross-out close-ups of puckering organs, what is most striking here is a rare cinematic quality nowadays: perversity.

From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2022

“They’re the Sour Patch Kids of chips,” said one puckering colleague.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2022

It was no different than the puckering smallpox marks or old surgical scars I found on other bodies.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros