crinkly
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Sometimes it’s a crinkly cellophane bag full of bolillos still faintly warm from the oven.
From Salon ● May 22, 2026
Lay’s is redoing the bags too, ditching the crinkly sheen for a heavier, matte finish emblazoned with pictures of potatoes and chips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
Although I know plastic is a problem, something still feels friendly about the bright-colored toothpaste tube, the crinkly bag of pasta.
From Slate ● May 28, 2025
It's actually a painted veneer, presumably because there was not a piece of foil large enough, lest a run on crinkly silver lead to stale sarnies.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2025
Jeremy rolled the crinkly red skin and put it with the others.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
The ferocious beauty has mellowed into a gentler, crinklier handsomeness.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 30, 2019
No," answered Henry, "but it's getting crinklier and crinklier and she looks pinker and pinker, and prettier and prettier, and you ought to see her in her new purple sweater.
From The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by White, William Allen
I left Arabella smiling triumphantly through her tears, but when I returned in the evening the breakfast-time frown had reappeared with even crinklier ramifications.
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 8, 1914 by Various
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