How To Use Crump In A Sentence

I went into the office to find the offender, and saw a worried woman crumpled in a chair in the corner, wearing a look of weariness and doubt.
The cheapest way I can think of to make people feel like they owe you is to have a crumply cardboard sign saying "Will Work For Food" and hold it up near a busy intersection. Don't Do Me Any Favors, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The ambulance that followed was wrecked, panels ripped off and the front crumpled by the crowds. Times, Sunday Times
Five steps up the dirt path, my trachea crumpled, my vertebrae fused, and the small muscles in my back revolted and spasmed.
Civil defence, police and the military worked throughout the morning to search for survivors and recover bodies amid the crumpled and charred cars. Times, Sunday Times

She fans her movements outward toward the sides of the body like a semaphore of swooping and crumpling limbs.
The Buttery in Glasgow will be especially missed - all warm glows and scrumptious food.
I could tell, even with the crumpling, that it was an interoffice memo. DOWNTOWN
It looks like a mother uncrumpling papers in her son's backpack to find a missing assignment.
Currently, a crumpled “riser” pipe is preventing the full flow of oil – like a kinked garden hose – though reports suggest it is gradually deteriorating. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Ninety Days of Hell from Decades of Neglect
Mr Morgan crumpled to the ground with a fractured rib, collapsed lung and bruising.
Steady on, the reason we men liked her was because she was a tremendously attractive and sexy piece of crumpet…
The thought of seeing 40 faces simultaneously crumple with disbelief was too much for us to bear.
Instead of seeking melody, listeners grew satisfied with crump-crump rhythm.
The next thing I remember is trying to uncrumple myself from the space on the passenger side where my feet had been moments before.
If you don't want to use a squeegee, you can wipe the windows with lint-free cloth, imitation chamois, or crumpled newspapers.
The side of the car was crumpled, both air bags had deployed and big band music was blaring through the windows. Times, Sunday Times
Trust is like a piece of paper. Once it's crumpled, it'll never be perfect again.
She simply crumpled in front of me. Times, Sunday Times
Annmarie, the cake looks scrump and I like your detour with cherries. The Daring Bakers: Perfect Party Cake
The jalfrezi is a scrumptious curry that originates from the ancient Mogul era of India. WalesOnline - Home
Imagine children having tea, inevitably squabbling over the buns, teacakes, muffins and - this being a British expression - crumpets.
But this particular morning, my tears were salted with frustration and exhaustion as my body and soul crumpled, overwhelmed by the weight of empathy. Christianity Today
The audio is sure to give the venue's newly upgraded sound system a thorough breaking-in, while the images transport with a hypnogogic flow of abstract patterns conjured through digital manipulations of a dozen shots of what looks like crumpled aluminum foil. Sad Sacks and Barrels of Laughs
Listen, son: I am saying this as you lie asleep, one little paw crumpled under your cheek and the blond curls stickily wet on your damp forehead.
And after a satisfying day of bird-watching, treat yourself to a scrumptious meal of Maryland's famous blue crabs, oysters, or a freshly caught fish.
An evening at the Magpie and Crown in Brentford was certainly lively, intellectually stimulating and at times hysterically funny; and I think their cask-conditioned scrumpy is probably at least twice the advertised strength... A busy weekend...
Drowsiness overcame her, and she crumpled to the floor, letting herself sink into dark oblivion.
Anne burnt the crumpled pages in the grate, including the blank pages underneath, all the way down to the first undented sheet. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
The card is a froth of glitter and highly scrumpled clumps of tissue paper.
How many of them actually got used, I do not know - only that I found mine crumpled in my bag several days later.
The slight hills and dips in the fields became the crumples of a quilt not completely smoothed down.
The room was in shambles and their master laid crumpled and bleeding on the floor.
As her face aged and crumpled, it grew more interesting - but hers was not a beauty made to last. Times, Sunday Times
Fifteen minutes after reading that crumpled note, I handed my letter of resignation to the senior pastor. Christianity Today
It looks all crumply and weird. she should have posed next to it so I can see. Here comes the bri...AAAAUUGGHHH!!!
Still singing, I took the crumpets out of the toaster and put them on a plate, spreading a generous amount of butter over them.
Take Alizée Jacotey for instance, I utterly refuse to believe that a gorgeous little crumpet like that could squeeze a 14 inch stonker out her delicate ricker. Army Rumour Service
Her body crumpled under the support of his arm. Times, Sunday Times
He crumpled to the floor, still conscious. Times, Sunday Times
The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried orange pips. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Garnished with an array of chutneys and delicious sambar, the end product is simply scrumptious for the food aficionado.
Mustering one great final effort, he threw himself towards the table, landing on his knees in crumpled posture. December 18th, 2007
Told in alternating narratives (with a helpful opening guide to how many different names both women are known by), Bunny ("Faith") Crumpacker tells the story of an unhappy marriage followed by betrayal, a pregnancy of uncertain paternity and the near-numb yet single-minded decision to give up her baby. Nancy Doyle Palmer: Jessica Lost: Adoption and Identity in Modern Times
She finally paints Adele, a subject she believes to be as poised and beautiful as the Madonna, but crumples up the sketch and throws it away.
In the outside lane is a silver Discovery, stopped, but looking fine. Behind it is a large white van with a spare-wheel shaped crumple in the bonnet.
Listen, son; I am saying this as you lie asleep, one little paw crumpled under your cheek and the blond curls stickily wet on your damp forehead. I have stolen into your room alone.
Crump had to win a race against the clock even to take part in the meeting.
The tunic lies crumped in her lap, and she looks oddly naked in just a T-shirt and jeans. THE EXILE OF GIGI LANE
Tom crumpled to the ground, bleeding heavily from the right side of his face.
He stared at the half-written sentence and then crumpled the paper in his hand, tossing it onto the dying fire in the fireplace.
He crumpled the nub and flicked it to a corner of my room.
Papers twirled about effortlessly and left their posts gliding to the ground and crumpling beneath the wheels of my haphazard vehicle.
His comrades had been studying the green leaves with interest but had jumped half a foot into the air when their companion crumpled to the ground.
The front bonnet affords extra crumple space in the event of an accident, and both driver and passenger airbags are standard.
A crumpled figure lay motionless in the doorway.
Ooooo, geo-tagging, a scrumptious calendar (already mocked up, but needs refining), more Ajax (yay!), a personalized saved search page, fun and easy ways to share and add favourites and a really great way to 'drill down' (that's what I call it, but it's more like 'refine' - needs refinement) your results. Hillary Duff Cant Wait for Riya's Mac Uploader
How deep does his Peter Pan-syndrome run when he thinks inviting pre-pubescent boys over to scrump is okay? Paranoid Pedestrian Ponderings
I consumed a truly scrumptious chilliburger and hoped, no prayed, that there would be a toilet or pub on the route.
There are dark black fishnets underneath the white dress shirt, his tie's undone and the school blazer's lying in a crumpled heap on the floor.
We shared two hot toasted crumpets and a cherry scone.
Her body crumpled under the support of his arm. Times, Sunday Times
Except for the gaping hole in the street and the crumpled bonnet of the motorcar, the entire incident might have been a horrible dream. LORD OF THE SILENT
‘I'm so sorry I didn't mean to just start crying like that, wow I feel so stupid’ She reached behind her and snagged a tissue off the counter and dabbed at the corner of her eyes and sniffled delicately into the crumply tissue.
Her hand flew to her forehead and her face crumpled. Times, Sunday Times
She sorted through her wallet, phone, and earphones until she came across a piece of crumpled paper.
Combine kiwis in a fruit salad with scrumptious strawberries (which were reputed to contain a love potion by medieval gardeners) and see what happens!
A rictus grin crumpled his careworn face; just another lost soul grimly drinking into the morning, pathetically clutching at the warmth of the false camaraderie of the night before. Survived another workshop!
Her resistance to the proposal has crumpled.
As the bullet tore through his leg, he crumpled to the ground.
A boy who was being bullied was so angry that he wrote a hit list, then crumpled it up and threw it away.
On the plus side, Catch Me at the Neil Simon, boasts two incredibly entertaining leads - a sensational Aaron Tveit as the charismatic Frank, and the always superb Norbert Leo Butz as Carl Hannraty, the crumply married-to-the job FBI agent who ultimately catches him. Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Catch Me If You Can, Peter and the Starcatcher, Urge For Going
The mouth, which, when she smiled, looked like a sword wound on the flank of a horse, now, when the "pout" is complete, looks like a crumpled concertina. Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front
If people cannot be brought to an interest in one another greater than they feel to-day, to curiosities and criticisms far keener, and co-operations far subtler, than we have now; if class cannot be brought to measure itself against, and interchange experience and sympathy with class, and temperament with temperament then we shall never struggle very far beyond the confused discomforts and uneasiness of to-day, and the changes and complications of human life will remain as they are now, very like the crumplings and separations and complications of an immense avalanche that is sliding down a hill. An Englishman Looks at the World
He smiled, pleasantly, as if they were chatting over tea and crumpets.
Once, we had tea and crumpet without a hint of double entendres.
At this, Sarah's face crumpled, and she stood up with arms stretched out to Annie as she used to in the past.
I don't even qualify for thinking man's crumpet.
He crumpled up the burrito wrapper and bounced it off the rim of the trash can.
The media representation of this war will be from a distance: shots of the city skyline illuminated by the flashes of bomb blasts, the dull crump of explosions.
I glared at her while taking a bite of the scrumptious piece of buttered and toasted bread.
Ah, your colleague, said Anil, crumpling aplum over his rice and spelling out the word as if she were an ESL student and he the instructor. For the Sake of the Boy
There I stand in a gown and high heels, tresses piled femininely atop my head, and yet my shoulders slump forward like a pitcher on the mound, my forehead crumples, and I become decidedly resolute as I recite my carefully composed vows: Live and Let Love
He tore open the package, to reveal crumpled rice paper wadded up around a much smaller box in the center of the package.
He was writing his own song on a crumpled piece of scented notepaper crowned with an ornate A.
He reached forward and crumpled up the timetable for his last quarter.
The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried orange pips. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket! Matthew Yglesias » America The Beautiful
At right, on a crumpled white cloth, a collection of kitchen implements is painstakingly composed—a tilted ladle, a gleaming jug, shiny copper cooking vessels and a favorite trompe l'oeil conceit of a knife on a diagonal that edges precariously into our space. A Monumental Moment
the dessert was scrumptious
Shoving his hands into the pockets of his tremendously puffy jacket, he heard crinkling and pulled out a slight crumpled piece of paper.
Le Viette can only be described as scrumptious and tasty. PhillyBurbs.com
The Firth of Tay glittered like crumpled silver foil, and the city shone with an inner light.
One room was disorderly with clothes crumpled, lying on the floor; also brand - new clothes still in their packets.
The warmth of the restaurant and a few glasses of sherry really hit the spot, and having unthawed, we indulged in mouth-watering Southern cooking eating scrumptious shrimp and grits.
Erik shook his head in disgust as he looked at his brother crumpled on the floor and looking so pitiful.
Cider comes in all sorts of varieties from the mass produced to the local farm "scrumpy". Barbecues, corn on the cob and other stuff
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When she finished she crumpled the piece of paper into a ball and chucked it away.
The side of the car was crumpled, both air bags had deployed and big band music was blaring through the windows. Times, Sunday Times
Fleck withdrew the shank, letting the crumpled envelope fall. TALKING GOD
Today his crumply white face has filled out again, his belly is back with a vengeance and his clothes sense has deserted him.
Mcanally's knees buckled and he crumpled down onto the floor.
The island is crumpled by mountains and creased by deep ravines just begging to be explored.
During this brief exchange of words, Klauss had ventured over to the crumpled picture and unfurled it.
As her poor little body was being moved, a worn and crumpled red purse was found which seemed to have been rummaged from some trash dump.
But deep down I would love to see kids mooching round on bikes in groups, scrumping apples and being clipped round the ear'ole by paternalistic cops.
The phone, her desk, the crumpled shape on the floor that was her jeans, everything looked different.
Yet for all his roughshod opinions, Orwell was a gentle man who could be as fustily English as tea and crumpets. George Orwell
Mr Kipling caught two young scamps scrumping in his orchard.
In contrast with the facile legibility of the older tower's brickwork, the metal cladding is apparently casually crumpled.
The note keeps violent twist bit from crumpling and makes skin damaged and fester.
He shook the thing he'd taken from his pocket, uncrumpling it.
Little Thady Kilfoyle reported that he had met the strange man a bit down the road, "leggin 'it along at a great rate, wid a black rowl of somethin' under his arm that he looked to be crumplin 'up as small as he could" -- the word "crumpling" went acutely to Mrs. Kilfoyle's heart -- and some long-sighted people declared that they could still catch glimpses of a receding figure through the hovering fog on the way towards Strangers at Lisconnel
He crumpled up the paper in his hands, only to unfold it again.
God, who wants us killed, who will beat us until we "crumple" on his Jane Smiley: HuffPost Book Review: Republican Gomorrah
Weariness overcame her, and she drifted into sleep across her crumpled rohe. Shadowfane
It smelled of mothballs and camphor, the elemental scent of my homeland, and out came crumpled wads of tissue paper containing miniscule treasures.
Six of Edmonton's most scrumptious purveyors of comestibles along with a dessert and scotch supplier will donate some of their best wares to the event.
As a child, scrumping apples was my biggest crime.
And she stays there, upright and smiling and proud, savoring her own good looks, with antivivisection posters crumpled around her feet. The Redleys
Dayra stood, menacing as always, and stared down at the crumpled mass lying on a pile of decaying straw in front of her, chained to the wall.
crumpy: Huh, the mobile me calendar beta doesn't do push notifications for iPad. GigaOM Network
In cases of severe growth inhibition, the wings appeared crumpled with strong structural deformation.
The towel was greenish blue although we are not sure about its original colour, " the Asahi General Hospital spokesman said, adding it had been crumpled to the size of a softball.
Pork chops in a Peking-style barbecue sauce are scrumptious.
You can also choose the house specialty Rainbow soup, conch chowder, fresh lamb soup cooked New England style, or a variety of scrumptious salads.
He would select news items, reselect them, rewrite them, cut them short, crumple them up and throw them away.
I always stack the dishes and put the silverware in a glass and crumple the paper and sweep up the errant rice, because I bussed tables for many years.
She crumpled up her coffee cup.
Today, though, we had Sunday lunch at the hotel in the village, and I had the most scrumptious pasta dish.
She crumpled to the floor in a dead faint .
Her body crumpled under the support of his arm. Times, Sunday Times
And yes, Richard Armitage is scrumptious (great word BTW:) We've just started the second season of Robin Hood in NZ and in the last episode we had a shirtless Richard .... Blog Takeover
It consisted of an excellent party with the most scrumptious food, fruit and minerals, tea and all sorts of goodies served.
Carefully, doing her best not to rip it, Adia pulled the crumpled piece of paper out of the hole and unfolded it.
`Cor-er, marvellous crumpet in the suburbs," Pomeroy confided. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
She simply crumpled in front of me. Times, Sunday Times
Preparation turned to execution when the explosives were detonated, resulting in a massive grey cloud and the loud crump of the explosion, which could be heard over four kilometres away.
Little Thady Kilfoyle reported that he had met the strange man a bit down the road, "leggin 'it along at a great rate, wid a black rowl of somethin' under his arm that he looked to be crumplin 'up as small as he could," -- the word "crumpling" went acutely to Mrs. Kilfoyle's heart, -- and some long-sighted people declared that they could still catch glimpses of a receding figure through the hovering fog on the way toward Sallinbeg. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4
By this time the vicar had polished off her first bottle of scrumpy and was well on with the next. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
At the Olympic trials in 2012 she was left in a crumpled heap on the track by a hamstring injury. Times, Sunday Times
You can never go wrong by serving chocolate chip cookies - they work as well in a scrumptious dessert with ice cream as a school lunchbox.
I crumpled to the ground where I lay muttering to myself about all the things I did wrong in my life.
The scrumpy middle-aged ones who've begun to sag have nice houses with a couple of tasteful pictures on the mantlepiece and a fresh rug, showing off a house that looks as lived in as the bodies they're revealing. Oscar Nominee Roundup: The Queen and The Departed
She saw him crumple them up in a sudden burst of impatience, and fling them across the parade.
There was a young woman lying crumpled on the floor beside the wall.
A show by the Saskatchewan abstract painter William Perehudoff currently at the tiny Poussin Gallery in deep southeast London; the incongruous, and oddly soothing, sound of Leslie Feist's new single being played at a dinner party on a recent holiday in France; the British press hailing Ryan Gosling as "the thinking woman's crumpet" - a title previously held by Michael Ignatieff. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
A thin line of smoke started to spiral up from the ruptured engine as Ian scrambled round the back of the car, catching his trouser leg on the crumpled rear bumper.
She crumpled the letter into a ball and threw it into the wastepaper basket.
The car has front and rear crumple zones and two side-impact protection bars.
He crumpled to the deck, his sphincter muscle giving out.
I nodded and he stood up, gathering the styrofoam containers and empty soft drink cups and crumpled napkins.
Our hood was crumpled and the fender was dented, but the engine continued to run.
Glory apart, I could think for a long time without hitting on anywhere beastlier to be except perhaps just the other side of a breastwork thirty yards off where the Bosch has been dropping heavy crumps in threes with monotonous regularity since an indecent hour this morning. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 150, February 2, 1916
His face crumpled in disgust, and he made a low growling noise in the back of his throat. Times, Sunday Times
Next door to the Bowmer, Chateaulin offers a Euro-style menu, including scrumptious marinated goat cheese on toast fingers.
There was a guy behind me, and he whopped me on the shoulder with something and crumpled me down.
I know I am old but I always say that when I was young if you did wrong you knew that if you went scrumping apples or whatever there would be a bobby on the beat somewhere around.
He crumpled up the juvenile green and yellow paper wrappings and tossed them into a plastic sack.
As I came downstairs, my right knee gave way, and I fell in a crumpled heap at the bottom.
When I finally stepped off the glacier onto the rock ridge - safe - my legs gave out from under me and I crumpled into the talus.
I'm never gonna live that 'scrumptious' comment down, am I? Trench Coat Leads
Phoenix Steamworks tee, Timekeeper's Daughter earrings by sihaya09, gears-key-and-pen-nib pendant by kythryne, crumply copper satiny skirt, boots. Friday
He was wearing a pair of crumpled pyjama trousers, tied at the waist with a white cord.
An aide later found it crumpled in the general's shirt pocket.
We started off the morning with tea and crumpets.
He uncrumpled the bag from around the water bottle and let the light flimsy plastic drift down behind him, idly fiddling with opening the bottle.
My chest crumples as the park ranger begins to explain how he found his car, then his note, and then his body. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery
So I just look for a shorty with crumply whiskers? Cheeseburger Gothic » While we wait for the Geek.
Martyn Sowerbutts, now retired after a career in computers, and his wife Cherry like to walk their dogs, Scrumpy and Enzo, along the bridleways and old drovers' roads, many of which would disappear under the foundations of the new housing estates. East Coker, TS Eliot's placid village, resists threat of housing invasion
SOME crumpets contain as much salt as three packets of crisps, a study found. The Sun
No little Gradgrind had ever associated a cow in a field with that famous cow with the crumpled horn who tossed the dog who worried the cat who killed the rat who ate the malt, or with that yet more famous cow who swallowed Tom Thumb: it had never heard of those celebrities, and had only been introduced to a cow as a graminivorous ruminating quadruped with several stomachs. Hard Times
Mine were scrumpled up and shoved down to the bottom of my bed.
His body was crumpled, his voice soft. Times, Sunday Times
The house crumpled up in the gale.
We thought fast food was what you have in Lent, a big mac was an oversize raincoat, and crumpet we had for tea.
Eocene a great upheaval occurred; there were foldings and crumplings, igneous rock was thrust into the distorted mass, and the islands were considerably elevated above the sea. The Bontoc Igorot
No starched apron-bib is sullied, no long straight gilet is crumpled, no cuff or kirtle torn or buttonless, no bold tricorne hat askew.
He wished his old aunt Crumpe, he said, to live and enjoy all she had as long as she could; and if she chose to leave it to him after her death, well and good; he should be much obliged to her: if she did not, why well and good; he should not _be obliged_ to be obliged to her: and that, to his humour, would perhaps be better still. Tales and Novels — Volume 02
Words are what leads me to all else, the sound and the fullness and the placement and the texture of all the words, individually and together and apart. linen doves crumped in my hand released, fly An early Valentine's Day gift for those inclined thusly...
She crumpled the letter up into a ball and threw it on the fire.
She crumpled the letter and tossed it into the fire.
We were concerned how the local constabulary would cope with such a situation, being the sort of remote place the biggest crime would be scrumping.
Would a carrot crumpet make you feel better?
We were making scrumptious veggieburgers din-dins for our menfolk to eat once they jumped out of the surf. Gingerbread
Soon enough, there was a pot of steaming coffee and a plate of honey-drenched crumpets standing in front of her.
For those of you who've never had pumpkin butter before, you're pretty much guaranteed to love it... unless you don't go for things that are completely scrumptious, that is. Organic Authority.com: Make Your Own Pumpkin Butter (and a List of Ways to Enjoy It)
Near the washstand was a dampened and crumpled towel, a bottle of hair oil, a simple shaving cup and brush, a rubber comb I could not help but miss my ivory comb and its silver case, a small bottle of inexpensive cologne and a little leather kit. Eighteen
Hopefully it won't throw itself into a tearful, crumpled heap on the floor. The Sun
We cut to a dark, sarcophagal bedroom, littered with medicine bottles and crumpled Kleenex. Dont You Forget About Me
Evidently excited to still be on solids, they have a traditional English breakfast consisting of tea, canned beans and crumpets flown to their San Francisco hotel every day.
This failed to satisfy Crump, who glunched and gloomed and spat out some hot oaths.
Ted grabbed the permission slip he'd written out earlier, crumpled it and binned it. BEHINDLINGS
His face crumpled in disgust, and he made a low growling noise in the back of his throat. Times, Sunday Times
Generally he found Winsome busy with her household affairs, sometimes with her sleeves buckled above her elbows, rolling the tough dough for the crumpy farles of the oat-cake, and scattering handfuls of dry meal over it with deft fingers to bring the mass to its proper consistency for rolling out upon the bake-board. The Lilac Sunbonnet
Scrumpy is the West Country name for cider, produced by the natural fermentation of apple juice; all you need is a press, a few barrels and a lot of apples.
Enjoy beautifully prepared cakes and pastries, or a full afternoon tea with sandwiches, toasted buttered crumpets and scones, while you are transported back in time.
And Given that NIST agrees: Free fall is impossible in abuilding crumpling or collapsingnaturallydue to structural resistance (Shyam Sunder, NIST); OpEdNews - Diary: 9/11: NIST Provides the Proof 9-11 was an Inside Job / False Flag Attack.
He never had black circles under his eyes, nary a spot, and the white coat was always pristine and uncrumpled.

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