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wrinkly

[ring-klee] / ˈrɪŋ kli /


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Now that he’s a bit wrinkly and gray he shows promise of being a startlingly persuasive character actor.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 16, 2026

The individual beans, which resemble shrunken dates due to their wrinkly dark exterior, can also be microplaned to create a fine powder, according to a guide from Great British Chefs.

From Salon Sep. 19, 2025

Remarkably, she said she was told that her daughter Willow could have been around two weeks overdue due to her "wrinkly old man" appearance.

From BBC Apr. 12, 2025

My grandmother’s plastic cover was never that wrinkly, but I have been in houses where they were pretty wrinkly, so it’s a little more lived-in, which is more my style.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 17, 2023

They just stand there, frozen, like three very wrinkly statues.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

She plays herself in this sharp and funny Lenny essay but explores similar themes—getting older, saggier, and wrinklier; caring a lot about that; and wondering what caring so much is teaching her daughter.

From Slate Apr. 29, 2016

When we ran into each other again, 40 years later, we were both fatter, wrinklier and literally scarred from run-ins with serious illness.

From New York Times Jan. 16, 2013

The hair has gone now, and he is wrinklier and twinklier, mellow and wise.

From The Guardian Aug. 5, 2012

She was a short, wrinkly prune of a woman with poofy gray hair who disapproved of everything and walked with a hunched back that made her look even shorter and wrinklier than she already was.

From "George" by Alex Gino

It turns out Big Jim taught him some other things, too, like the power of loyalty and how hope, even the tiniest, wrinkliest sliver, can power us through our darkest hours.

From Salon Aug. 4, 2019

Believe it or not, I have been covering the Supreme Court and legal affairs here at Slate for 15 years, which also makes me one of the wrinkliest Slate staffers.

From Slate Mar. 13, 2015




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