crumpled

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Crumpled mattresses and twisted bed frames; torn-up couches leaking crumbly foam; halves of tables and broken bookshelves piled high among busted office chairs and abandoned dressers.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2023

Crumpled roofs, charred carcasses of cattle and broken chairs covered in gray ash and soot dotted the smoldering landscape.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 5, 2021

Crumpled to her knees was a girl of perhaps 12 with white hair and tattooed cheeks.

From The Verge • Feb. 8, 2019

Estate pub The Crumpled Horn in Swindon was built in 1975, designed by Roy Wilson-Smith and based on the theme of the nursery rhyme 'This is the House that Jack Built'.

From BBC • May 18, 2018

Crumpled people uncrumpled on their way to the Arrivals Lounge.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy