crumple
Example Sentences
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To wrap a basketball, for example, you’d need to crumple the paper in a horrible mess or cut many pieces and tape them together with unsightly overlaps.
From Slate • Jan. 21, 2026
His adversaries think he’ll crumple like yesterday’s broadsheet when they turn him away, and are perturbed to realize he’s more like the human equivalent of tissue hanging onto the heel of a shoe.
From Salon • Sep. 23, 2025
The close-ups of their faces, as they crumple or freeze in the act of realization, are devastating, and not just for those undersold at $1.
From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2024
Yael and Shachar, at just 11 and 9, have seen such horrors that their small faces crumple into tears again and again.
From BBC • Oct. 23, 2023
I saw my face on the screen crumple in despair.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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