scrunches

Example Sentences

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Horse manure plops onto the asphalt, and no one blinks or scrunches their nose.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2023

When a visible star is tugged by the gravity of an unseen companion, the motion to and from Earth stretches and scrunches the light.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 17, 2022

It scrunches its cheeks, raises its eyebrows, and then grimaces and blinks.

From The Verge • May 4, 2022

At times, he scrunches his eyes tight, extra tight, particularly when talking about tension or negativity.

From Slate • Apr. 30, 2019

Keisha scrunches up her face—the look she gets when she really can’t figure him out.

From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt