How To Use Crinkly In A Sentence
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The picture on the packet shows bright pink blooms but, in fact, they are a headily tropical mix of hot pinks, scarlets and orange, with petals the texture of crinkly crepe paper.
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Hi, Coll," he said, then he smirked at me, one eyebrow going all crinkly like James Bond or something.
GO!
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His crinkly hair was a glossy brown colour still unmarked by grey; his moustache was neat and trim.
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His urbanely crinkly face oozes disapproval; his querulous voice is like a fingernail at a scab.
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In the dining-room there was now a Sicilian called Gianni: sallow, with black crinkly hair and appalling teeth, he exuded self-love.
POLITICAL SUICIDE
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= -- Bark of trunk dark gray, thick, hard, close, and rough, becoming narrow-rugged-furrowed; crinkly on small trunks and branches; leaf-scars prominent; season's shoots stout, brown, downy or dusty puberulent, dotted, resinous-scented.
Handbook of the Trees of New England
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I have to look up 'crepitus': 'a peculiar crackling, crinkly, or grating feeling or sound under the skin'.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fred himself is adorable; he's got a great crinkly smile and a baldish head and is incredibly photogenic in his overalls, limping through verdant pastures.
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His crinkly hair was a glossy brown colour still unmarked by grey; his moustache was neat and trim.
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Fabric must be cotton or poplin, not shiny, silky or crinkly.
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David, with thinning red hair and crinkly blue eyes, sat on her right.
SPLITTING
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Prohibited from visiting physically, Ms. della Dora has had to travel to "the immutable cone of Athos" on the crinkly backs of maps, etchings and photographs, and through the masculine accounts of poets, theologians, botanists, bibliophiles, art historians and escaped World War II POWs.
A Fossil With Flesh
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One letter, on crinkly tissue paper, showed that as late as the Japanese – Russian War he had been caught running coal into Port Arthur and been taken to the prize court at Sasebo, where his steamer was confiscated and he remained a prisoner until the end of the war.
BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
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The stove, which seems to be getting cranky and erratic, refused to cooperate with my desire for roasted potatoes, cooking them well enough but refusing to put a good crinkly crispy coat on them.
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A variation of this recipe is usually used to garnish Cantonese roast pork, but we slathered it on salt-baked pork chops, which were filleted like veal and fried in crinkly shapes like some strange form of ribbon candy.
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They would know that one does not bring food items or mints wrapped in crinkly paper to the theatre, then spend several minutes opening them during quiet moments in the proceedings.
Why we're not going to see Sandra Shamas
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Her masses of crinkly hair, once gold, now darkened by age to a dull dun, spread out around her head like a fan.
THE CURSE OF CHALION
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This February I finally caved in and got rid of a black crushed-velvet bolero trimmed with some kind of crinkly metallic stuff that I had owned since 1969 or 1970.
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A lean, balding man with pale green eyes and a quick, crinkly smile, he is strikingly ordinary in appearance, but flashes of his screen characters surface constantly as he talks.
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Uneven blotches and crinkly patches are on the leaf surface.
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Even Faith opened her eyes wide to stare upward, for there was something sliding through one of the portholes above their heads, and dropping softly downwards -- a small package done up in crinkly pink paper, and tied neatly about with blue lutestring.
All Aboard A Story for Girls
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Jake collapsed into a heap in the grass under the willow and started bawling, grabbing a few tufts of crinkly brown grass and tearing them out by the roots.
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It sprawls along the ground, with crinkly-edged leaves and lobed, bright blue flowers.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was a tall, florid-faced man with a low forehead and crinkly black hair.
PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW
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Foliose lichens have leaf-like thalli whose edges are crinkly or divided into lobes.
Lichen
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Her hair, brown and warm in shadow, sparkled, where it caught the light, in a kind of crinkly iridescence, like threads of glass.
The Cardinal's Snuff-Box
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One last note is that this streamer seemed a bit more "crinkly" than the other plain streamers I bought.
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The first man was described as being black, about 50 to 55-years-old, with crinkly hair and possibly wearing a tweed jacket.
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I'm a little bit more crinkly now and older, maybe not wiser though.
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Lettuce, be it red or green, smooth or crinkly, germinates very quickly and is soon ready to eat.
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Of course, she stepped on it, it made the dreaded 'crinkly' noise and she jerked-- her head catching in the loop of the bag.
Poursuivre - French Word-A-Day
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Of course, she stepped on it, it made the dreaded 'crinkly' noise and she jerked -- her head catching in the loop of the bag.
Poursuivre - French Word-A-Day
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Finnesko boots were stuffed with saennegrass (a crinkly, Arctic grass) for insulation.
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Her masses of crinkly hair, once gold, now darkened by age to a dull dun, spread out around her head like a fan.
THE CURSE OF CHALION
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It will be made from yellow bricks and sharp-angled sheets of glass with a "crinkly" facade.
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On the exposed limestone, crinkly yellow rock-rose and dark red helleborine; also hart's-tongue fern, rigid buckler-fern, hard shield-fern.
Times, Sunday Times
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Scandinavian architecture is all the rage these days, from Lower Manhattan, where the Oslo firm Snøhetta is finishing a much-anticipated structure on the site of the former World Trade Center, to Shenzhen, China, where the Copenhagen studio BIG is designing a crinkly textured skyscraper.
Making a Mark on Sweden's Landscape
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Overnight there was a frost and it went hard and crinkly.
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In summer the fabrics would be stiff and crinkly.
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Her masses of crinkly hair, once gold, now darkened by age to a dull dun, spread out around her head like a fan.
THE CURSE OF CHALION