How To Use Crinkle In A Sentence

  • It was a day when the fine hairs on your skin seem to crinkle up in the sun.
  • If you have a partially shaded spot, use Ramonda myconi for its crinkled foliage and lavender-blue blooms in late spring. Times, Sunday Times
  • The toothwort in your picture is broadleaf toothwort, also known as crinkleroot toothwort.
  • Soybean protein fiber is of many excellent properties, but poor crinkle - proof and dimension stability.
  • The heat was beginning to make the cellophane crinkle.
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  • The doctor's wrinkled face crinkled into a broad smile.
  • An actual all-out smile that made the corners of her eyes crinkle. TRUST ME
  • His eyes crinkled up the corners and made him look like a kid again.
  • That's why the droop and crinkle of middle-age is the source of such gloom, particularly as it has a nasty habit of catching you unawares.
  • crinkled" no longer claims to be a badge of superior sanctity. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
  • Chartreuse, longifolia, tends to spoon, thin, deep veining, crinkled , rough, long hairs.
  • Lonnie's face had begun to show tiny crinkle lines around his eyes, but Brian's twenty-two-year-old face was youthfully smooth. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
  • He folded the map up once again, its old creases and textures feeling strange on his hand, like crinkled bark almost.
  • Spinach and fancy cabbages like crinkled-leaf savoy were also popular, as were specialty corns, such as popping corn.
  • Authentication of the unknown painting included a congruity between crinkles in the paint surface of the unknown picture, and cut marks on the back of the Minneapolis Study.
  • He pulled it out of his mouth, smoothed the crinkles and read what his wife had written: "Be in aisle 10 of Home Depot tonight at 6 p.m. Meet the Marriage Killer
  • The petals may be overlapped, recurved, frilled, crinkled or ruffled.
  • Several crinkles appear near his eyes as he smiles, ‘You're the best, Boss.’
  • Choose a variety of coordinating prints and solids in fabrics like crinkled and/or patterned velvet or velveteen, lightweight brocade, satin, wool, rayon challis and mediumweight silk.
  • Very European, quite old-fashioned with a slice of smoked ham and old-style veggies like crinkle-cut beetroot and huge onion rings.
  • UVA rays are at their worst in summertime, constantly penetrating our epidermis, damaging our collagen and elastin fibres and creating wrinkles, crinkles, sags and bags all the more likely.
  • When I got to the company who was interviewing me, I rolled my sleeves back down and realised I'd sweated so much the sleeves were all wet and they'd crinkled up as well.
  • His face crinkled in tenderness, and his hands cupped around an invisible object.
  • He liked the cute way the edges of her eyes crinkled up when she smiled, the way her eyebrows spread and the worry lines in her forehead disappeared when she laughed.
  • He watched as the side of her face he could see was crinkled up, not sure what to say.
  • Do the crinkles in crinkled chips (for Americans that's fries not crisps) actually confer any difference in taste?
  • The second thing he noticed, raising his disappointed gaze from the abdominal plane, was that there had been an exodus of gray from her hair and that the skin around her eyes, which had been cobwebbing with crinkles, was now as smooth as custard. La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
  • While her face crinkles into a laboured smirk, her sad eyes say more than words ever could.
  • Lonnie's face had begun to show tiny crinkle lines around his eyes, but Brian's twenty-two-year-old face was youthfully smooth. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
  • SKIP the cajun-seasoned French Fries unless they upgrade to fresh potatoes ..... today they were just heavily seasoned, frozen crinkle-cut factory fries. General Lee
  • Conway's eyes crinkled up in a smile that almost reached his thin lips.
  • SKIP the cajun-seasoned French Fries unless they upgrade to fresh potatoes ..... today they were just heavily seasoned, frozen crinkle-cut factory fries. General Lee
  • The chips, or fries, are of the crinkle-cut variety.
  • They were really, really light -- the paper was translucent and kind of crinkled -- so you could fill up to two or three pages and not rack up a fortune in stamps when you went to mail your letter. Undefined
  • She looked at Cheepy-cheepy lying next to the bereaved mother and hollowed her cheeks; a hungry look widened her eyes slightly although they were practically buried in crinkles. Excerpt: Brick Lane by Monica Ali
  • His squinting at the bloodstone crinkled the red dragon tattooed into his forehead. THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART TWO OF THE EA CYCLE
  • Maple handrails cap lacy steel balusters painted with Hammerite, a brand of finish that crinkles as it dries, resulting in a hammered-iron look.
  • Grasping the bag she felt the soft crinkle of old parchment beneath the worn cloth.
  • She sat there on her knees, feet crossed, palms outstretched on that crinkle-cut grass, eyes wide open enough to burst, smile broad enough to split.
  • Glausidium palmatum displays its large, silky lilac-pink flowers, measuring up to three inches across, above large, veined, and crinkled maplelike leaves. Christian Science Monitor | All Stories
  • Fabrics that are textured like linen, wool, or even "crinkle" fabrics can distract the eye from bumps and bulges. EzineArticles
  • Amelia, eyes crinkled with tiredness, stood there fully dressed in purple corduroy trousers and an embroidered lilac jumper. JUST BETWEEN US
  • To create the crumpled paper, antique the paper with the ink pads, crinkle it up, smooth it out and then dip it into a mixture of white glue and water.
  • As we walked, the conversation ranged over ground provisions and market life, and then as we passed through steep fields of bushes with shiny, crinkled, dark green leaves, it turned to coffee.
  • His mouth crinkled into a smile.
  • I neatly placed the papers in my binder, only to have them crinkled when Evan dumped two science books on my desk.
  • The region's slickrock, sandstone from long-gone seabeds, is a moonscape of crinkles and undulations that make for exhilarating riding.
  • The shake was good (too bad I drank it all on the way back – dessert first!), the fries were okay (crunchy crinkle-cut and not too salty) and burger was decent (enjoyed eating it at my desk) but not nearly as solid for me as their Double ShakeBurger IMO (I guess I needs more meat!!). Winter Makes the Shake Shack a More Do-Able Midtown Lunch | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
  • There was no disguising the crinkle of plastic wrapping paper or that little-girl voice sing-songing, ‘Now my Fuzzy Wuzzy will grow hair.’
  • Try ornamental kale and cabbage, Chinese cabbage, crinkle-leaf parsley, spinach, snapdragon and dianthus underplanted with spring-flowering bulbs.
  • And his brother had that self-same, loppy, crinkled ear. CHAPTER XXXIV
  • There was Gwen, sitting at the table with him, a worried look on her face, forehead crinkled up in thought.
  • Inside was a sheet of onionskin typing paper, the kind that's slippery but crinkles.
  • The usual smell of books and bindings met my nose, which crinkled momentarily.
  • Asked about the move, his slow smile widens into a broad grin that crinkles the sun-wizened features of his face.
  • A slight smile crinkled a partial dimple into his cheek.
  • Or you can become really, really greedy, like any number of people we know, their desk drawers rustling with the crinkle of unshared sweets.
  • The large eye-catching flowers 1 to 4 inches across are usually red and yellow and have six backswept, often crinkled, petals and protruding stamens.
  • Inside was a sheet of onionskin typing paper, the kind that's slippery but crinkles.
  • I can confirm the crinkle is deafening. dianesmith5 Says: First 100% Compostable Chip Bags to Hit Shelves Soon | Inhabitat
  • It is a history of ceaseless, demented innovation: the first time a blue twist of salt was included; the arrival of ready-salted (the sliced bread moment); the cheese-and-onion Tayto; the invention of prawn-cocktail powder; crinkle cut, thick cut, square cut, jacket on, "gourmet," kettle fried ... Britishness Acquires an Extra Crunch
  • I watched his face as his eyes crinkled up and his deep laughter rung out over the phone.
  • This summer's crinkled, patterned and bejewelled gypsy skirts trigger something powerful in anyone who was young in the Sixties and early Seventies.
  • She looked at Cheepy-cheepy lying next to the bereaved mother and hollowed her cheeks; a hungry look widened her eyes slightly although they were practically buried in crinkles. Excerpt: Brick Lane by Monica Ali
  • A glance up at the nearest standard merely revealed shards of glass, their crinkle-cut edges shining in the glow from an upper window. A MEANS TO EVIL
  • He had curling auburn hair and light blue eyes framed by long dark lashes like her own, his eyes were crinkled slightly at the corners from a wide grin, that seemed almost too big for his face.
  • Ethan offered her a broad smile that crinkled up the sides of his eyes.
  • The crinkles and distortions virtually disappear.
  • Near its poles small dabs of bluewhite nestled amid gray icecaps that spread crinkled fingers toward the waist of the world. Tides Of Light
  • The two sisters who founded the label in 2005, Laura and Kate Mulleavy, created a new vision of gentle, feminine beauty, in a palette based on the colours of earth and sky, and a homespun patchwork of fabrics such as crinkled silk, linen, and wool gauze. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Upper is wear - resistant and crinkle resistant cowhide. Unique design of laser carve. Lining is anti - bacteria and anti - odor.
  • Very European, quite old-fashioned with a slice of smoked ham and old-style veggies like crinkle-cut beetroot and huge onion rings.
  • Absurd as it was, the phrase crinkled Stanton's heart just the merest trifle. Molly Make-Believe
  • `Your rudeness displeases me," Vincent observed in a voice that made my spine crinkle with fear. MY BABYSITTER HAS FANGS
  • And his brother had that self-same, loppy, crinkled ear. CHAPTER XXXIV
  • I stuck my nose all the way down in there, and there was nothing other than *crinkled nose*. Archive 2005-05-01
  • This summer's crinkled, patterned and bejewelled gypsy skirts trigger something powerful in anyone who was young in the Sixties and early Seventies.
  • An actual all-out smile that made the corners of her eyes crinkle. TRUST ME
  • The pages were brown and crinkled.
  • The two flowers oftenest noticed by the chance comer to these parts are the Greenland sandwort (the "mountain daisy"!) and the pretty geum, with its handsome crinkled leaves and its bright yellow blossoms, like buttercups. The Foot-path Way
  • Her eyes were sky blue and crinkled at the edges when she grinned. Starcraft II: Devils’ Due
  • Pigments wrap themselves, form folds, crinkles and ridges, blur and merge like layers of fabric, and cover the canvas.
  • Her open brown crinkled face sparkled from the intensity of her loving, laughing eyes. The Elders Circle - an exploration in wisdom
  • The crinkle of the paper as my father sat on the small examining table and the quiet creak of the door as the doctor walked in. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery
  • There's barely a square inch of skin between his beard and wire-rimmed glasses, only the crinkle of laughter lines around the edges and the occasional smiling rack of slightly yellowed teeth.
  • Pinned to her clothes – striped Eastern things, and that kind of crinkled silk stuff they weave in Crete and Cyprus – was a piece of parchment, a scapular we thought at first, but which was found to contain only the name Διονεα – Dionea, as they pronounce it here. Archive 2009-11-01
  • The crinkles in the gold leaf highlight the delicate texture of lace, the mottled surface of a pine plank table, or the peeling walls.
  • And you can see that these crinkles in the outer layer of the brain in Alzheimer's Disease have taken on a very kind of moth-eaten appearance.
  • I love the way one side of your mouth curls up higher than the other when you smile. The crinkles at the corners of your eyes remind me of the pukeko's tiny footprints, spiralling closer and closer to heaven.
  • Mia smiled, the corners of her eyes forming soft crinkles.
  • Natalie blushed and cursed herself for noticing that his eyes crinkled adorably when he smiled.
  • Pinned to her clothes -- striped Eastern things, and that kind of crinkled silk stuff they weave in Crete and Cyprus -- was a piece of parchment, a scapular we thought at first, but which was found to contain only the name _Dionea_ -- Dionea, as they pronounce it here. Hauntings
  • While you, like me, may have arrived at a repertoire of greatest hits over the years—like the molasses crinkles my grandmother cribbed from a Wesson Oil cookbook, and the candy canes from Betty Crocker's Cooky Book that my mother taught me to roll across our Formica counter—each December still demands a new challenge. Wunderbar Cookies
  • This is a really attractive plant with dark purplish, green, crinkled leaves and sweet smelling lilac purple flowers, it is well worth growing.
  • Vagaries and broad pictures have too much wiggle room, too many gaps and crinkles to get mired in. Sitting down, getting it done «
  • She told the crowd that chiropractic care has played an important role in her life in helping to maintain optimal levels of fitness and keeping the "crinkles" in her spine to a minimum. Chiropractic News
  • There was a little wilga as black and crinkled as a pickaninny’s mop, and the remains of a great stump standing close to the charred boundary. The Thorn Birds
  • And the other fellow-his left ear was kind of crinkled, if you know what I mean. The Hidden Staircase
  • It measures a person's mood by examining key features, such as the curve of the lips and the crinkles around the eyes.
  • And in the morning the yellow sea faintly crinkled by the inrushing wind from the land, and long, straight lines on the lacquered meadow, long, straight lines that reared at last in green glass, then broke in snow, and slushed softly up the sand. Kangaroo
  • Instead of regular cabbage, the recipe calls for savoy cabbage, which is a mellow-flavored, loose-leafed full head with crinkled leaves. Undefined
  • Grasping the bag she felt the soft crinkle of old parchment beneath the worn cloth.
  • While you, like me, may have arrived at a repertoire of greatest hits over the years—like the molasses crinkles my grandmother cribbed from a Wesson Oil cookbook, and the candy canes from Betty Crocker's Cooky Book that my mother taught me to roll across our Formica counter—each December still demands a new challenge. Wunderbar Cookies
  • And leaving Charlie with her brow crinkled in thought, Todd turned his attention to Katrina. FINAL RESORT
  • His legs were crossed in gentleman's fashion and he continually crinkled the paper, bending it in all shapes possible.
  • The hand was cold, lifeless, like a crinkled sheet of paper. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
  • An actual all-out smile that made the corners of her eyes crinkle. TRUST ME
  • Those on the mayor's tour who entered the building immediately came out, faces crinkled, and walked carefully to avoid stepping into pools of stinking water.
  • Several non-infectious diseases including the leaf red spot, gummosis , herbicide in jury, typhoon damage and genetic albinism and an unidentified leaf crinkle disease are also described.
  • He delivered this all with a wet smile and a charming crinkle in his eye and only the veins standing out in his neck mirrored the hostility of his words.
  • `Your rudeness displeases me," Vincent observed in a voice that made my spine crinkle with fear. MY BABYSITTER HAS FANGS
  • But doggone it, those little crinkles do appear with age!
  • The St. Mary thistle grows at the foot of the walls in knots of large, spreading, crinkled leaves, beautifully scalloped at the edges; the glazed surface reticulated with lacteal veins, retaining the milk that, according to the legend, flowed from the Virgin's breast, and, forming the Milky Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
  • Only a few faint lines crinkled her eyes, and she had lost weight.
  • When I laugh, my eyes still naturally crinkle, but there aren't the ferocious, deep furrows I've grown used to.
  • UVA rays are at their worst in summertime, constantly penetrating our epidermis, damaging our collagen and elastin fibres and creating wrinkles, crinkles, sags and bags all the more likely.
  • She gave him the winning smile, which now crinkled her middle-aged face.
  • A quizzical smile crinkled the corners of his eyes as he "hefted" his burdens. Where the Sun Swings North
  • In the persona of jolly Crinkleroot, a bearded and buckskinned mountain man, the author begins each book amiably with a letter's worth of general information concerning habitats, swimming or flying, gills or feathers.
  • The petals may be overlapped, recurved, frilled, crinkled or ruffled.
  • His whole face smiled, his eyes crinkled up and his gray green eyes danced merrily.
  • A hotel phone squats on a desk in front of the screens, and from time to time the actors will ring down to order not a roast beef sandwich with crinkle-cut crisps, but a round of Truth or Dare - or maybe a darker, less formalised game.
  • Then I carefully opened the first envelope and extracted a piece of crinkled loose-leaf notebook paper, and had to smile at it as I began translating the misspelled words and tiny scribbles.
  • While her face crinkles into a laboured smirk, her sad eyes say more than words ever could.
  • He shoots the boardroom scenes in dismal office-grade lighting, showing every crease and crinkle on the stressed faces within the room.
  • Lonnie's face had begun to show tiny crinkle lines around his eyes, but Brian's twenty-two-year-old face was youthfully smooth. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
  • Try ornamental kale and cabbage, Chinese cabbage, crinkle-leaf parsley, spinach, snapdragon and dianthus underplanted with spring-flowering bulbs.
  • These Gaucher cells had voluminous pale basophilic cytoplasm with a crinkled, striated appearance.
  • Robin picked up the Marconigram, and calmly smoothed out the crinkles. The Prince of Graustark
  • Shallows webbed with gold ripple, then draw back to expose crinkles tender as the lines a bedsheet etches on skin.
  • His mouth crinkled up into his usual friendly smile.
  • Other plants that fit with the same disjunct pattern are clustered lady's slipper, white shooting-star, broadleaf starflower, evergreen violet, Henderson's sedge, and crinkle-awn fescue.
  • If a leaf of the paper, which I slowly, warily, stealingly turned, made but one faintest rustle, how did that _reveille_ boom in echoes through the vacant and haunted chambers of my poor aching heart, my God! and there was a cough in my throat which for a cruelly long time I would not cough, till it burst in horrid clamour from my lips, sending crinkles of cold through my inmost blood. The Purple Cloud
  • I tried out the clingwrap crinkle technique I found on Nat's blog. Paper love
  • Her eyes crinkled in a smile but she didn't say anything.
  • His hair was totally silver, but his skin was surprisingly smooth except for crinkles at the corners of his eyes—eyes as silver as his hair. Haven
  • This biblical recovery of Paul's vision and limbs (which incidentally still has our eyebrows all crinkled up with confusion) naturally lead to him starting up a clothing label, which has speedily gathered a sizeable following with legions of Babycakes fans sporting the fashion forward, funky garms. Blogs
  • Mild mosaic is characterised by a chlorotic mottling of the foliage usually accompanied by a slight crinkling, while other virus diseases include mottle or potato virus X, spindle tuber, yellow dwarf and paracrinkle virus. Chapter 25
  • He smiles, and the dreaded crinkles appear near his eyes, tiny lines.
  • At the Tracy Reese fashion show this weekend, the designer will be trotting out flouncy skirts in soft, crinkled silk georgettes, lightweight fabrics such as organza and cotton and lively patterns that feature massive flowers and grass blades done in pale blue, green and pinkish red. The All-Weather Wardrobe
  • Abby sighed again, this time thinking of the way his eyes crinkled up at the corners when he smiled.
  • Final question, the -- because I have the same skepticism that what I would describe as the crinkle effect. CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2009
  • He could not get her out of his head: her voice, her words, the way her bright green eyes crinkled up when she smiled, her hair, practically everything about her.
  • Soybean protein fiber is of many excellent properties, but poor crinkle - proof and dimension statility.
  • Following our pale primrose are the Wanda primulas, very attractive plants with very dark, often evergreen, crinkled leaves and rich flowers in shades of purple, pink and red as well as white and yellow.
  • These grayish black mushrooms look like small, delicate, paper-thin, crinkled leaves.
  • If he has crinkles and a furrowed brow, he goes to war.
  • His mouth crinkled into a smile.
  • After lunch, just greasy things in crinkle bags, I climb behind him on the bike. Shoes
  • I of easement from the constriction of the jacket, of cleanliness in the place of filth, of smooth velvety skin of health in place of my poor parchment-crinkled hide. Chapter 11
  • But he was younger than his many creases and crinkles suggested.
  • Feeling something crunch beneath him, he lifts himself up and pulls a crinkled plastic bag from the cushion.
  • He gave a small smile, his dark eyes glittering with malice and his large, hooked nose crinkled in a smirk.
  • The first crinkles of age were beginning to appear round her eyes.
  • Seersucker is a lightweight cotton fabric crinkled into lengthwise stripes.
  • He then served us a herbed yogurt mousse, with crinkle-cut herbed potato chips.
  • Family obligations always did crop up at the worst of times, Kratos thought with a crinkle of his nose.
  • The bags do crinkle loudly, though hardly like the "revving motorcycle" reported in the Wall Street Journal. Gwen Ruta: What Do iPhones, Coca-Cola and SunChips Have in Common?
  • Adult leaf: often entire, mid-green blade, involute, slightly bullate and crinkled, very little pigment in the veins.
  • Her face crinkled up in disgust, then she darted past him and into the hallway in an effort to get away from him.
  • A fine clear September day, with a cool wind and a warm sun; a day upon which the diaphanous costumes of the bridesmaids might be a shade too airy; but not a stern or cruel day, to tinge their young noses with a frosty hue, or blow the crinkles out of their luxuriant hair. The Lovels of Arden
  • The region's slickrock, sandstone from long-gone seabeds, is a moonscape of crinkles and undulations that make for exhilarating riding.
  • She thought of the way his eyes crinkled up at the corners when he smiled. Choker
  • There was no disguising the crinkle of plastic wrapping paper or that little-girl voice sing-songing, ‘Now my Fuzzy Wuzzy will grow hair.’
  • I still had the map he gave me lodged in my pocket, crinkled up a little.
  • The heat was beginning to make the cellophane crinkle.
  • The preserve provides habitat for over two dozen state-listed plants, including yellow sedge, crinkled hairgrass, water avens, bunchflower, autumn willow, and green cotton-grass.
  • He even wears the same moustache and has those crinkles in the corners of his blue eyes.
  • Soybean protein fiber is of many excellent properties, but poor crinkle - proof and dimension statility.
  • Splashes, crinkles and stains obscure favorite recipes—do these cookies call for 3 cups or ¾ of a cup of flour? Tablet as Sous Chef
  • Soybean protein fiber is of many excellent properties, but poor crinkle - proof and dimension stability.
  • `Your rudeness displeases me," Vincent observed in a voice that made my spine crinkle with fear. MY BABYSITTER HAS FANGS
  • December 12, 1972, "says bemused John Davis, as Kim crinkles up his eyes behind thick glasses and cracks a gleeful grin.
  • I handed him the paper I was clutching minutes previous; the edge on the right side was all crinkled up.
  • And he had that self-same crinkled ear," she hurried. CHAPTER XXXIV

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