crumpled

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In front of us the proud face crumpled; Tante Jans put her hands over her eyes and began to cry.

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I followed her to the back room and crumpled onto a stool.

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Mine today is yellow, my last clean one, excavated from the crumpled piles on my wardrobe floor and pale enough that I’d hoped it would go unnoticed.

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It’s creased and torn, as though it had been crumpled up into a ball before being opened up again and neatly folded.

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He pulled a crumpled bit of purple seaweed out of his pocket to dangle in front of my nose.

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