crinkle

Example Sentences

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“Are the boots uncomfortable in the heat, Miss Penelope?” one of them was asking me, her forehead crinkled up like a dumpling as she tried to appear sympathetic.

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I give a tired smile and feel my swollen eye crinkle.

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Asase’s forehead crinkles, as if I asked her why humans breathe.

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Miss Mortimer laughed so hard that tears formed in the crinkles of her eyes.

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At the word “optimistic,” Lady Constance crinkled her nose in the manner of a person detecting a bad smell.

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