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unwrinkle

[uhn-ring-kuhl] / ʌnˈrɪŋ kəl /


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Theory’s new pants promise to repel water and dirt, wick away perspiration, quickly unwrinkle, stretch for comfort and cool the wearer down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2016

San Francisco's family-owned Levi Strauss & Co., the behemoth of blue jeans, has a new wrinkle-or, rather, an unwrinkle.

From Time Magazine Archive

The April rain-drops tinkle In cuckoo-cups of gold, And warm south winds unwrinkle The buds the peach-boughs hold.

From Child Songs of Cheer by Antoinette Inglis

Even when he had sunk his mustaches in the dark surface of the mead, his brows did not unwrinkle.

From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz

The eyebrows and lashes had disappeared; the skin, grown hard, could not unwrinkle.

From Beatrix by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

The good news is that doctors are no longer serving up the “Botox-face” — think, eyebrows frozen in perpetual surprise, foreheads unwrinkled but not exactly youthful.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2022

Stephanie, still fresh and unwrinkled in her red dress, black hair smooth, sunglasses pushed up on her head, chatted in the midst of all of us, the weight of the day lifting.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2021

When Dodie commented on his unwrinkled, youthful-looking hands, he held up a finger and said, “Black don’t crack.”

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019

They’re unwrinkled young men who began this decade playing football together for that 326-year-old football coaching conservatory, William & Mary.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 10, 2019

Though well past forty, he was as yet unwrinkled, with scarce a line to tell of the passage of time.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

When you pass out, you become cut off from your experience and the return feels like an unwrinkling of the senses.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2022

In his office, at home and on his travels, Mr. Bratton keeps with him a steamer for instant unwrinkling, Mr. Miller said.

From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2016

Gingerly she lifted the cover and drew out two slips of paper folded, then unwrinkling them on her knee she looked down and gasped, while a wave of brighter crimson swept over her face.

From Peggy Parsons at Prep School by Annabel Sharp

Yes," he replied, without unwrinkling his old face, "I saw it in the papers.

From The Web of Life by Robert Herrick

Now they affected very light trousers and very broad collars and shoes and unwrinkling socks and cuffs that gleamed very white.

From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie


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