scrunch

Example Sentences

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You cook them really quickly in a pan with butter and then scrunch them, which allows for the maple-soy butter to pool in all the little pockets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

We watched its robot slowly but smoothly make a coffee, scrunch up some socks and clear a table of perilously fragile wine glasses.

From BBC • Jan. 11, 2026

My face would scrunch up and I’d shudder from the intense flavors, but I never cried.

From Salon • Sep. 13, 2025

Small amounts of the DNA didn’t appear to affect the cells, but larger amounts caused them to scrunch up, suggesting they were responding to the stimulus.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 19, 2021

Her eyebrows scrunch up, reminding me of angry caterpillars.

From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt