pucker

Example Sentences

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So, why then do so some folks willingly crave foods that make their mouths pucker and tongues tingle?

From Salon • Sep. 13, 2025

Mattel should have considered traditional pucker toe moccasins, instead of black shoes, and included symbols on the basket that Cherokees use to tell a story, she said.

From Washington Times • Dec. 4, 2023

In other words, this complex dance between art, anatomy, and archaeology can bring the past almost to life—one eyelash, pucker, and pore at a time.

From National Geographic • Oct. 23, 2023

Hutchinson agrees this makes sense, because radial fascicles can change the tip’s cross sectional profile, allowing it to pucker and poke, for example.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 26, 2023

Starry is waiting, arms crossed, a worried pucker on her forehead.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins