scrunch
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You cook them really quickly in a pan with butter and then scrunch them, which allows for the maple-soy butter to pool in all the little pockets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
We watched its robot slowly but smoothly make a coffee, scrunch up some socks and clear a table of perilously fragile wine glasses.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2026
In signature Smith style, her light-wash jeans scrunch just above a pair of tan, heeled boots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025
My face would scrunch up and I’d shudder from the intense flavors, but I never cried.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2025
There was the opening and slamming of car doors, the scrunch of boots on rocks, low voices talking.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
When a visible star is tugged by the gravity of an unseen companion, the motion to and from Earth stretches and scrunches the light.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 17, 2022
It scrunches its cheeks, raises its eyebrows, and then grimaces and blinks.
From The Verge ● May 4, 2022
At times, he scrunches his eyes tight, extra tight, particularly when talking about tension or negativity.
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2019
Her face scrunches up; the frame is filled with her joy.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2019
“It depends on how long the American cord is….” Theresa’s little gnome face scrunches up like she’s thinking hard about this.
From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
The footwell was noticeably narrow even for me at 5’6” so someone taller would feel scrunched when fully stretched out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The woman's Do Not Attempt Resuscitation document was also found scrunched up in a cupboard, the report added.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Or a small, scrunched face slumbering in a stroller.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2025
When ISA President Fernando Aguerre informed Aguirre on Friday that she had qualified, her face scrunched up on camera as she started to cry.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2024
He scrunched his lips while he retrieved a thought.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
When Jimmy is passionately advocating for something and Kayla is in the same frame, she’s often gesticulating, scrunching up her face or emitting noises like “pffffft.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
At Y/Project, Glenn Marten continued to rework the classics – twisting a trench and scrunching its form with the aid of a wired hem.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 28, 2021
Scared and grieving, living in a grim and hopeless world, what’s to stop a reality-altering super being from waving her hands, scrunching her nose, and dropping into the seemingly safe confines of a 1950s sitcom?
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2021
“She gets in the dressing room with them, tucking and untucking and scrunching up sleeves,” Ms. McMullen said.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2020
All the sounds build—Mom and Sue stacking plates in the kitchen, the scooting closer of chairs, the scrunching up of paper.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
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