scrunch

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

My face would scrunch up and I’d shudder from the intense flavors, but I never cried.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2025

Since the mid-1960s, microscopists have seen that axons can scrunch up to form beads when they are diseased or under other stress.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 2, 2024

She'd always scrunch up her forehead and say how it had been a long time since she learned this stuff.

From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour

Horse manure plops onto the asphalt, and no one blinks or scrunches their nose.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2023

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

She sprays it 16 times with disinfectant and scrunches it up into a tight ball that she seals with a plastic tie.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2022

Mateo nods, and his face scrunches up like he’s told a bad joke.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

David Modica, headphones around his neck, hoodie sleeves scrunched up, took the mic at a Marblehead, Mass., meeting this week and asked the question facing every American town pushing back against new housing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

Manage your draughts by putting a black bag with scrunched up paper up an unused chimney, or try limiting other draughts around the home.

From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2025

On bad nights for the bandleaders and their players, they caught a little sleep on the bus or in the car, scrunched between sweaty orchestra mates.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024

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

Perilee looked up from the quilt and scrunched her face.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

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

Her habit of scrunching her nose effectively mocked masculine self-importance, and in not much more than a minute, she showed what she had spoken about earlier: how a classical art survives.

From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2021

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

I try to balance the skiff by shifting gear to the front and scrunching myself forward, but it don’t help much.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick