pucker

Example Sentences

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The kind that makes your mouth pucker and your tongue go numb from all the acids decimating your taste buds.

From Salon • Jul. 19, 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

The folds of her cheeks were drawn in a mournful pucker.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord