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unwrinkle

[uhn-ring-kuhl] / ʌnˈrɪŋ kəl /


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Theory’s new pants promise to repel water and dirt, wick away perspiration, quickly unwrinkle, stretch for comfort and cool the wearer down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2016

San Francisco's family-owned Levi Strauss & Co., the behemoth of blue jeans, has a new wrinkle-or, rather, an unwrinkle.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even when he had sunk his mustaches in the dark surface of the mead, his brows did not unwrinkle.

From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz

The April rain-drops tinkle In cuckoo-cups of gold, And warm south winds unwrinkle The buds the peach-boughs hold.

From Child Songs of Cheer by Antoinette Inglis

The eyebrows and lashes had disappeared; the skin, grown hard, could not unwrinkle.

From Beatrix by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

Yet all three are shown with unwrinkled faces, smooth hands, and firm necks.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2020

When Dodie commented on his unwrinkled, youthful-looking hands, he held up a finger and said, “Black don’t crack.”

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019

They’re unwrinkled young men who began this decade playing football together for that 326-year-old football coaching conservatory, William & Mary.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 10, 2019

Many studies have focused on the goal of keeping skin looking youthful — plump, dewy, firm and unwrinkled.

From Nature ● Nov. 20, 2018

Though well past forty, he was as yet unwrinkled, with scarce a line to tell of the passage of time.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

When you pass out, you become cut off from your experience and the return feels like an unwrinkling of the senses.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2022

In his office, at home and on his travels, Mr. Bratton keeps with him a steamer for instant unwrinkling, Mr. Miller said.

From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2016

"I know," replied the girl, unwrinkling her forehead.

From Ambrotox and Limping Dick by Oliver Fleming

Now they affected very light trousers and very broad collars and shoes and unwrinkling socks and cuffs that gleamed very white.

From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie

Hedwig regarded her puzzled, till her brow unwrinkling at last, she exclaimed: "Upon my word, I believe you have fallen in love with master."

From The Son of Clemenceau by Alexandre Dumas fils


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