How To Use Rumpled 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 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
The map gone!" and he seized the candle from Bud's hand, and, holding it so that its light illuminated the whole bunk, stared wildly down on the rumpled surface of the rude bedtick, which now, the blankets having been thrown off, showed its entire surface to the light of the candle. The Cave of Gold A Tale of California in '49

We were also greeted by a large man in rumpled chef's whites and a rakish black beret, a handkerchief knotted jauntily around his neck.
He looked rumpled, in an unironed plaid shirt and khakis that suddenly appeared too short, bits of his dark socks visible between hem and shoe. Ann Packer's 'Molten': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature
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.
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
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.
Drowsiness overcame her, and she crumpled to the floor, letting herself sink into dark oblivion.
His rumpled clothes showed his indifference to convention. Times, Sunday Times
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
Javier Oliva-Madrid carried about $18,000 in rumpled small bills into a Tysons Corner car dealership to help pay for a Toyota 4Runner. Probe reveals inner workings of ring shipping drugs from Mexico to D.C. area
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 room was in shambles and their master laid crumpled and bleeding on the floor.
His Straight brown hair fell half-combed across his forehead, and his clothes were clean but rumpled.
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
His rumpled hair fell lazily onto his forehead and his hands were buried in the pockets of his trousers.
The wind rumpled her lovely hair.
A topographical map of Michigan makes the state look as if someone steamrolled it with heavy equipment, then rumpled the northwest corner.
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
Mustering one great final effort, he threw himself towards the table, landing on his knees in crumpled posture. December 18th, 2007
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.
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.
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.
A crumpled figure lay motionless in the doorway.
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.
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
Her hand flew to her forehead and her face crumpled. Times, Sunday Times
He was much more at home in rumpled khakis or a wet suit and in the aquarium with the dolphins.
She sorted through her wallet, phone, and earphones until she came across a piece of crumpled paper.
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.
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
At this, Sarah's face crumpled, and she stood up with arms stretched out to Annie as she used to in the past.
Rumpled and flinty-looking, with a kind of rawhide, folksy sincerity, Russell epitomized the rugged and independent spirit of the West. Zane Grey, Romancing the West
He crumpled up the burrito wrapper and bounced it off the rim of the trash can.
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
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
She sat in the middle of a queen-sized bed, in rumpled black silk pajamas with her disheveled hair framing her face.
Shoving his hands into the pockets of his tremendously puffy jacket, he heard crinkling and pulled out a slight crumpled piece of paper.
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.
Erik shook his head in disgust as he looked at his brother crumpled on the floor and looking so pitiful.
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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
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.
The phone, her desk, the crumpled shape on the floor that was her jeans, everything looked different.
In contrast with the facile legibility of the older tower's brickwork, the metal cladding is apparently casually crumpled.
He crumpled up the paper in his hands, only to unfold it again.
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.
She also thought I scrub up well… Unfortunately it didn't last, after four hours in the pub I looked a bit rumpled to say the least!
What for?" asked the voice, which Dickie now perceived came from a gentleman in rumpled hair and a very loose pink flannel suit, with cordy things on it such as soldiers have. Harding's Luck
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.
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.
Someone sitting on a vinyl picnic chair in a rumpled gray robe sat with his back to the door, long legs dangling over a four-foot tall ornamental railing built from a row of white sepulchral urns.
She crumpled up her coffee cup.
She crumpled to the floor in a dead faint .
Her body crumpled under the support of his arm. Times, Sunday Times
Carefully, doing her best not to rip it, Adia pulled the crumpled piece of paper out of the hole and unfolded it.
She simply crumpled in front of me. Times, Sunday Times
At the Olympic trials in 2012 she was left in a crumpled heap on the track by a hamstring injury. Times, Sunday Times
I crumpled to the ground where I lay muttering to myself about all the things I did wrong in my life.
There was a young woman lying crumpled on the floor beside the wall.
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 man allowed him to turn around and looked him up and down, taking in the rumpled clothes and unkempt hair.
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.
His face crumpled in disgust, and he made a low growling noise in the back of his throat. Times, Sunday Times
There was a guy behind me, and he whopped me on the shoulder with something and crumpled me down.
Martha swept into the room wearing black, her mid-length light hair rumpled.
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.
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.
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.
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.
No starched apron-bib is sullied, no long straight gilet is crumpled, no cuff or kirtle torn or buttonless, no bold tricorne hat askew.
She crumpled the letter up into a ball and threw it on the fire.
Hidden Springs, the smell of sage, a horse and"---he gave Holly a teasing sideways look---" a rumpled munchkin watching me with gold eyes. DESERT RAIN
She crumpled the letter and tossed it into the fire.
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
Iseult unconsciously reached a hand up to her disheveled hair and looked down at her rumpled dress.
We cut to a dark, sarcophagal bedroom, littered with medicine bottles and crumpled Kleenex. Dont You Forget About Me
Her skirt was all rumpled and her pochette lay some few feet away from her.
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
He never had black circles under his eyes, nary a spot, and the white coat was always pristine and uncrumpled.
Her slender form was a crumpled heap in his arms, with bruises and blood marring her creamy white skin.
The ambulance that followed was wrecked, panels ripped off and the front crumpled by the crowds. Times, Sunday Times
That came in the Olympic trials when a hamstring injury left her in a crumpled heap halfway up the track. Times, Sunday Times
I accepted it and crumpled the energy bar wrapper in my other hand.
Massive thumbs flicked, effortlessly sending metal crate tops high into the air, defying both their locks and hinges, to land noisily in crumpled heaps on the floor. 365 tomorrows » 2006 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Lean and lithe, only his rumpled features give away his 47 years of age. Times, Sunday Times
KSM, dressed in a rumpled T-shirt, looks dopey, disheveled, and paunchy, the exact opposite of his own heroic self-conception as the James Bond of Jihad. The Longest War
He is dressed in sweatpants and a white t-shirt, his hair all rumpled from lying down on the couch.
Celestine reached for a pencil and smoothed out the crumpled paper napkin.
The suit was not as crumpled as usual, the piggy blue eyes blazing. Times, Sunday Times
The side of the car was crumpled, both air bags had deployed and big band music was blaring through the windows. 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
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
I hurried to the tent and grabbed a few clean, if rumpled, clothes.
A crumpled linen suit that could have been purchased at a Miami Vice flood sale. The Sun
The front of the car had crumpled on impact.
As usual, he looks rumpled, vague. Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic
The sheets of the beds are rumpled, undrunk coffee stews in cheap cups, a meal seems half-eaten.
Fernando reached for a napkin to wipe his eyes, then noticed a crumpled wad of bills under his coffee cup.
Two ill-glued legs fell off it, and the rest crumpled to splintery matchwood. THE MAGICIANS OF CAPRONA
I thought as I crumpled to the floor holding the left side of my face. Times, Sunday Times
Eventually I found myself standing in the center of the garage floor, just staring at the crumpled nose of Joe's car and at the hundreds of bits of chrome and metal and Fiberglas surrounding it. The Devil's Bedpost
A crumpled scrap of paper was found in her handbag.
The front end was crumpled in and the whole left side needs mending. The Sun
Lean and lithe, only his rumpled features give away his 47 years of age. Times, Sunday Times
He was still in the outfit I'd picked out for him for the party, but it was rumpled from being slept in.
He was a sickly grey color, his glasses were slightly askew, his hair was limp as if he hadn't even bothered with it that morning, and his coat and pants were rumpled.
Nor can you presently pass the beerhouse with its brighter gas and its queer, screening windows, nor get a whiff of foul air and foul language from its door, nor see the crumpled furtive figure — some rascal child — that slinks past us down the steps. In the Days of the Comet
The back end was completely crumpled and the rear window was shattered.
Rummaging in her evening bag, she withdrew a crumpled pack of cigarettes and a wilted book of matches.
For years physicists have wondered how a crumpled sheet can be so extraordinarily rigid.
Within seconds, he had crumpled onto the ground like a lifeless rag doll.
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.
She dropped it in quickly, and then crumpled the note and envelope up.
On Mondays her hair is crumpled and unbrushed, she is slumped in her seat (unlike her usual ramrod posture), and she looks paler than a corpse in a coffin.
An arrow hissed threw the air and found it's mark, the old doe fell to the ground in a crumpled heap as her eyes clouded over.
Outside, a man is pushing a battered shopping cart filled with flotsam from the road: crumpled cans, a discarded flask, a pillow.
A crumpled figure lay motionless in the doorway.
Trust is like a piece of paper. Once it's crumpled, it'll never be perfect again.
The remains of the spider, several napkins, and two slices of pizza -- all in incy wincy bitsy spider pieces, plus crumpled napkin and destroyed pizza slices, contaminated no doubt with SPIDER EGGS, ewwwww! Arrrgh! Spider!!!
She crumpled the letter up into a ball and threw it on the fire.
The front end was crumpled in and the whole left side needs mending. The Sun
By the time Carmen announced brunch was ready, Julian had gone completely silent and glazed over—turtled, Brooke always called it—and Cynthia looked rumpled and exhausted in her polyester pantsuit. Last Night at Chateau Marmont
He couldn't help thinking of one of those amiable, rumpled bears out of Uncle Remus. SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
In one house the bed was always made, in the other it was a mass of rumpled sheets with sand at the bottom. Times, Sunday Times
Behind stone walls dripping with clematis, a crabapple's toss away from what he called a "muddle" of windblown daisies, beneath the dappled shade of a weeping beech tree, a ruddy-cheeked Englishman, dressed in a gently rumpled olive suit, sat with a sketch pad spread across his lap. The Seattle Times
The big flamboyant trim there is a crumpled bow formed out of hideously expensive and lavish striped grosgrain ribbon, accented with chocolate/pink spotted ribbon, coral pink velvet ribbon and a little carved button.
I lay in a crumpled heap, in terrible pain, already suffering from the first onset of shock. FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
The sounds of a television, which seems tuned to a crime movie, play across an obstructed vision of a rumpled bed, a supine leg and a discarded handgun.
Her face crumpled up and she burst into tears.
There was a small hand held tape-recorder stuck in the rewind position and a crumpled piece of paper with a phone number and address lying on top of the whole pile.
It looked as if the cowling had simply popped open in flight and crumpled in the slipstream.
Taking out her slightly crumpled test paper, she hurried to the living room.
Matt crumpled the note up and aimed for the trashcan.
I have always told you the consequence of attending to the minutiae, where art (or imposture, as the ill-mannered would call it) is designed — your linen rumpled and soily, when you wait upon her — easy terms these — just come to town — remember (as formerly) to loll, to throw out your legs, to stroke and grasp down your ruffles, as if of significance enough to be careless. Clarissa Harlowe
Grimm tugged a crumpled purple handful from his pocket and restored some shape to the hat.
Folded up against his green steno book was a crumpled sheet of loose-leaf paper.
But yesterday her face crumpled in tears as she said goodbye to her beloved dad. The Sun
I imagined her springy muscles stretching and flexing, her hair tousled, her bedclothes rumpled. A RODENT OF DOUBT
Depending on the severity of a collision you will end up with crumpled doors, shattered glass or even bumpers and skirts dragging in a trail of sparks behind you.
His hair was a bit rumpled and his eyes perhaps tired, but otherwise, he appeared the same.
No longer awash with big-boy bravado, they have crumpled into sobbing heaps.
She crumpled the letter and tossed it into the fire.
The door opened a second later and Morgan shuffled out, looking rumpled but presentable.
His shock registered immediately, but when he took in my tears and the letter in my hand, his face crumpled.
And there was a staff gyrocar crumpled against a tree where it had been flung by some explosion or other. Morale A Story of the War of 1941-43
I took the letter from my hand bag draped at my side and uncrumpled the paper.
Her face crumpled and tears fell silently, as she clasped her husband's arm.
His body was crumpled, his voice soft. Times, Sunday Times
She crumpled the paper in her hand.
The phone clicked back into place as Jackie crumpled onto the floor, her composure finally breaking.
The side of the car was crumpled, both air bags had deployed and big band music was blaring through the windows. Times, Sunday Times
Her expression crumpled, and she held her arms out beseechingly. Among the Free
Right now I've got a couple of crumpled-up old fivers in my pocket.
He looked dishevelled in old, crumpled clothes, his hair matted and his lips cracking, his tatty shirt a poor defence against the biting cold.
Her little summer dress and leather jacket crumpled up on the floor where she had left them when she was happy.
Across the region, residents dealt with downed branches, knocked-over trees, malfunctioning traffic signals, leaky roofs, crumpled carports and battered mobile homes.
The edge of the overriding plate is crumpled and uplifted to form a mountain chain parallel to the trench.

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