crinkly
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He briefly considers a bizarre woven tapestry featuring his brothers’ faces rendered in fabric before settling on a blue, crinkly tarp.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 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
There were slightly larger crinkly paper cups for water, which I poured from the drinking fountain in the corner of Mrs. Killinger’s office.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
The ferocious beauty has mellowed into a gentler, crinklier handsomeness.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 30, 2019
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
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
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