unwrinkle
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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
The eyebrows and lashes had disappeared; the skin, grown hard, could not unwrinkle.
From Beatrix by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
Hence the Latin phrase, exporrigere frontem— to unwrinkle the brow—means, to be cheerful or merry.
From The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Darwin, Charles
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 Sienkiewicz, Henryk
The good news is that doctors are no longer serving up the “Botox-face” — think, eyebrows frozen in perpetual surprise, foreheads unwrinkled but not exactly youthful.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2022
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
He watched her drift away, drift with her pink face warm, smooth as an apple, unwrinkled and colorful.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
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
Roman by birth, in appearance and character, his inexhaustible Southern wit often succeeded in unwrinkling the brow of his young companion.
From The Carlovingian Coins Or The Daughters of Charlemagne. A Tale of the Ninth Century by Sue, Eugène
Gingerly she lifted the cover and drew out two slips of paper folded, then unwrinkling them on her knee she looked down and gasped, while a wave of brighter crimson swept over her face.
From Peggy Parsons at Prep School by Sharp, Annabel
Mrs. Mutimer's face exhibited the dawning of intelligence, an unwrinkling here and there, a slight rounding of the lips.
From Demos by Gissing, George
