How To Use Wrinkled In A Sentence

  • Then we ventured out onto the frozen waters of Calriga Bay, where the ice stretched grey and wrinkled to a horizon of low, wooded islands.
  • The last prisoner in the coffle was the tailor, a gray-haired, elderly man with a wrinkled face. The Magic of Krynn
  • But as he neared the crux of his missive, he was suddenly interrupted by a flurry of black tresses and wrinkled muslin rushing into the room.
  • His blue dress uniform was unwrinkled and perfect.
  • The dress got wrinkled
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  • The problem is that members are growing older and more wrinkled - and the younger generation do not quite see the point. Times, Sunday Times
  • Do you think we will be awed by the number of nubile, dim-witted, improbably large-breasted young ladies your middle-aged "narrator" sleeps with in the throes of his midlife crisis, after leaving his wrinkled shrew of a wife? Archive 2009-09-01
  • She didn't approach the door but paced the hall, her snub nose wrinkled at the sour smell of urine and smoke.
  • A minute after, the door slowly opened its upper half, and Karen's wrinkled face and white cap and red shortgown were before them. The Hills of the Shatemuc
  • The doctor's wrinkled face crinkled into a broad smile.
  • She wrinkled her nose in distaste as she placed her toiletries onto the night table.
  • Stems from twelve to fifteen inches high; leaves lyrate, the terminal lobe round; flowers small, in erect, loose, terminal spikes, or groups; the seeds are small, wrinkled, of a grayish color, and retain their vitality three years. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
  • he was wrinkled and ungroomed, with a two-day beard
  • It was the most boring two hours I'd ever spent in a theater, nothing but these wrinkled old bags in Indian hats hugging each other and crying.
  • A wrinkled purse,a wrinkled face.
  • By the basin, under a small portico cut in the solid wall, sat a priest, old, bearded, wrinkled, cowled-never being more perfectly eremitish. Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ
  • Ma Dubois is in her late seventies: old and wrinkled with a blue frock, a Brillo pad of wiry grey hair and a pair of thick horn-rimmed glasses.
  • He seemed to be in his sixties, with a balding pate and wrinkled face.
  • My feet harbor the calloused soles of one has walked across beds of fire and the wrinkled flesh of one who had, for so long, too long, believed he could walk on water. Went Sideways
  • He remembered the unappetizing plates he'd found last night, and wrinkled his nose in distaste. DEATH SPEAKS SOFTLY
  • Unlike typical skin aging, which is characterized by the development of fine wrinkles and skin growths, photodamage includes characteristics such as coarsely wrinkled skin, spots of extra pigment or lost pigment and dilated blood vessels on the face. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
  • The problem is that members are growing older and more wrinkled - and the younger generation do not quite see the point. Times, Sunday Times
  • When translated into watercolor on silk, her paintings retain both the muted palette and slightly wrinkled texture of the leaf collages.
  • She was still dressed in the clothes from last ni, ht, wrinkled and misshapen - skirt, dress, nylons, sweater and all. FAMILY BLESSINGS
  • He wrinkled his brow, confused and worried by the strange events.
  • The outer or pulpy integument of the seed may have a wrinkled appearance.
  • On the Tukar'ramin's great wrinkled hide flashed a hormonal code. Tides Of Light
  • Tanya wrinkled her nose at a strong, harsh whiff of what seemed to be… alcohol?
  • Page 171 crosses his "galluses" (leather) before and behind to keep his "britches" on him, very thin visaged, yellow "pumpkin" skin, tough and wrinkled. Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters
  • I had tried folding them, rolling them up, laying them flat, squishing them together until they were all wrinkled, but it just seemed impossible to fit that amount of clothes in such a small space.
  • His brow wrinkled as his thoughts drifted back fifteen years ago, to events that were forever etched into his memory.
  • Frannie wrinkled her nose at her daughter.
  • And I feel like a wrinkled, ugly chaperone sitting here on the sidelines.
  • She had got herself up in proper visiting attire, but now her pink, low-necked frock was wrinkled, and her hair was loose on her shoulders. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
  • There sounded a slight shuffle before the blonde-haired beauty appeared, dress now slightly wrinkled though just as pretty.
  • Its leaves are slightly wrinkled, velvety and grey-green in colour, the flowers are pale lavender, boldly veined with deep violet.
  • His suit was wrinkled and he looked very tired.
  • For a seven-year-old boy, he kept his black jeans incredibly clean and unwrinkled.
  • The rising moon, like Celia, appears to be frowzy, dirty, red and wrinkled.
  • Sarah smiled and wrinkled her nose with a smirk on her face.
  • The patient's graying hair and wrinkled forehead indicated her advanced age.
  • Her head was covered by a red kerchief, which, folden triangular, hung loosely over it: her grey hairs were combed back from her high and wrinkled brow. Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund
  • Here, women of a certain age parade improbably large and pert bosoms encased in lime-green body suits, suspiciously taut, unwrinkled, expressionless faces, and very aged, very rich husbands on the terrace.
  • Charlie, who was unaccustomed to medical facilities of any kind, wrinkled her nose at the antiseptic appearance of the room.
  • She looked up, brows wrinkled in a frown, and he produced a typewritten report and gave it to her.
  • Linda's lips wrinkled down, a strand of hair pasted against her cheek.
  • I did indeed look older and more wrinkled than ever.
  • His long, curved neck, wrinkled face and hooked nose gave him an appearance similar to that of a vulture.
  • His black, beady eyes glared at her behind wrinkled cheeks and a round nose.
  • Amy wrinkled her nose in disapproval.
  • He liked the way sometimes a little crease wrinkled the side of her nose when she laughed.
  • She wrinkled up her nose at the strange smell coming from the kitchen.
  • It settled green on the wrinkled grey forehead. Somewhere East of Life
  • She wrinkled her nose, piqued by his total lack of enthusiasm.
  • Lisle stockings were compulsory and much disliked as they did not fit well and wrinkled at the ankles.
  • The huge figure settled itself onto the divan next to Ramses, who wrinkled his nose involuntarily as a wave of patchouli wafted round him. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
  • We redid out packs organizing them, my skirt and top were dirty, wrinkled, and still wet so I folded them and put them in my pack, deciding to walk in my bloomers and corset.
  • She wrinkled her nose as she caught a whiff of disinfectant.
  • A ten minute wallow in a facial mud pack was followed by lift-off and, hey presto, I had the visage of a smiling, contented unwrinkled baby.
  • The lady at the neighbouring table, with wrinkled skin, a beaky nose and bulging eyes, swathed in netted black, cast her withering glance.
  • I took in his wrinkled apparel, his smudged face, and the scruff on his chin and cheeks from several days without grooming.
  • She wrinkled her nose and took the bag in her small hand.
  • The brilliant camera work sympathetically follows him from street corners where he shares a dazed smoke with a couple of wrinkled vagrants to a silent pond where his exhausted mind conjures up startling hallucinations.
  • And his wrinkled, old visage expressed so crabbed a determination to remain unmoved that Mr. Haviland laughed outright in the most tolerant of humours. That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story
  • A raggle-taggle clamour of children curls by, banging homemade drums and startling an old man who has been praying into his wrinkled brown hands.
  • The small percipient eyes are screwed up, and wrinkled from his repeated minute scrutinies.
  • I am not able to iron the upper part of the sleeve on this one, so I just leave it wrinkled and it looks like smocking. Women's Dresses in Marcus Stone's Paintings (1840-1921)
  • His cold, dark grey eyes scythed across the bare antechamber, coming to rest upon a small, wrinkled old hunchbacked man who had come through the door at the opposite side if the room.
  • He was completely bald, so when his brow wrinkled, everything on his head wrinkled.
  • And if that is true then why not admit that Botoxing a wrinkled brow or downsizing a large nose, while cosmetic, may be reasonable choices for some to make as well.
  • Elizabeth Mathobege shuffles into the LifeLine office in Alexandra, clutching a torn envelope in her wrinkled hands.
  • Like a wrinkled and bearded saint blessing some worshipping bedral. The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems
  • He righted his ruffled cloak, straightened his wrinkled shirt, and glared white hot anger at me.
  • I watched her at the produce table, smilin as she handled a wrinkled green pepper and a spotted tomato, deriv ing some secret amusement from their inferior condition. Incubus
  • But one glance at the wrinkled-map face, and the single rheumy eye peering over the top of the bifocal lens would also have told you that the braces and baggy trousers were inevitable. Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Save the Dragons 22 - Dave Freer
  • She wrinkled her nose in mock distaste.
  • It was an ancient and a sad matron of a sedate look and christian walking, in habit dun beseeming her megrims and wrinkled visage, nor did her hortative want of it effect for incontinently Ulysses
  • Though I confess to a moment of personal outrage when I was stuck behind an elderly woman at the grocery store the other day who decided to "slather" herself head to wrinkled toe in some sort of nauseating concoction. Scents-less
  • The ink had soaked through the pages, the pages curled and wrinkled.
  • When translated into watercolor on silk, her paintings retain both the muted palette and slightly wrinkled texture of the leaf collages.
  • His face wrinkled in a grin.
  • His suit was wrinkled and he looked very tired.
  • Barbie, that plastic icon of childish femininity, has appeared in many guises over a long but curiously unwrinkled life.
  • They each contain three pinkish "umeboshi" (salted, dry plums), but those on one of the plates have been preserved for just one year; the ones on the other plate - whose skins are a little more wrinkled - are three years old. News On Japan
  • the suit was wrinkled and unbrushed, as if it had been slept in
  • She wrinkled her nose in disgust at the smell of urine.
  • The tattoo on his cheek wrinkled as he scowlingly recounted his days below deck in a slaveship before Kennit had freed him. Ship Of Destiny
  • She didn't approach the door but paced the hall, her snub nose wrinkled at the sour smell of urine and smoke.
  • The Cessna's fuselage was wrinkled and the Stinson had its empennage cut off and its left wing destroyed.
  • As Helga considered the implications of Jake's aggressively styled hairdo and my middle sister's nubile young body traveling at speed behind the wheel of a moving automobile, her eyebrows did a kind of palsied tremor, eventually settling back into their resting place above her wrinkled gaze. Bootstraps
  • The majority of men my age have beer bellies, sagging pecs, wrinkled skin on their arms and legs, and frequent health problems.
  • The small percipient eyes are screwed up, and wrinkled from his repeated minute scrutinies.
  • A pair of bright eyes, shaded by bushy white brows, glittered in his brown face -- seamed and wrinkled like the bark of a gnarled oaklike gay flowers amid withered leaves, forming a strange contrast to his lean, bowed, and shrivelled form. Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
  • Sculptor and installation artist Susan Meyer Fenton is haloed against a wrinkled and therefore turbulent backdrop.
  • A couple of furrows wrinkled the fur at the bridge of his muzzle and he flicked a quick gesture at the nearby guards; they moved to keep orbiting petitioners at bay.
  • He was a slight man with a wrinkled face and a mop of grey hair. Times, Sunday Times
  • Lip lady is puckering fast and furious now and is just about to give up when a yellowed, wrinkled paper falls out from the pile she is holding.
  • The wrinkled child of a warrior culture, Aeschylus may have sincerely believed that Marathon represented his finest hour.
  • The ageing process might have begun for him then - his forehead wrinkled, like an unironed cloth, with the worries of the world entwined in each strain of the fabric.
  • To address this problem of perceived remoteness of risk, the study emphasized the more immediate effects of unprotected sun exposure: wrinkled, sagging, dry skin.
  • His wrinkled face is angular but kindly. Times, Sunday Times
  • His wizened and wrinkled face and his long, flowing beard contrasted sharply with the aura of power that seemed to flow from him.
  • Schumer has been seen in the Senate wearing the same baggy-kneed, wrinkled suit and dress shirt and pilling sweater vest three days in a row. Roger Stone: StoneZone's 2011 Best and Worst Dressed
  • Many times in the film, an arched eyebrow, a downcast eye (followed by a POV shot), or wrinkled, furrowed brow says a lot more than the witty bon mots that the cast members like to throw about.
  • Decreased production of natural oils may make your skin drier and more wrinkled.
  • With brogan boots and wrinkled coat i went to join the men. Fincairn Flax
  • Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay in, the more wrinkled you get.
  • Kuper queried, his eyebrows forming a crease in his forehead as it wrinkled in confusion.
  • His forehead was permanently wrinkled and his eyes always in a scowl, portraying his constant ferociousness and controlling behavior.
  • Old, his face was weathered and wrinkled, but he always had a smile for the strange woman and her sporadic emotional outbursts.
  • Her hair was mussed and falling over her eyes, her clothes wrinkled and disheveled.
  • I sniffed them and wrinkled my nose and the nurse, Nurse Annie, laughed.
  • A kindly, gray-whiskered old gentleman came tottering and rocking into view, his rosy, wrinkled face beaming benediction on the world as he passed through it -- on the sunshine dappling the undergrowth, on the furry squirrels sitting up on their hind legs to watch him pass, on the stray dickybird that hopped fearlessly in his path, at the young man sitting very rigid there on his bench, at the fair, sweet-faced girl who met his aged eyes with the gentlest of involuntary smiles. The Tracer of Lost Persons
  • Teiala wrinkled her face in confusion as they headed back for the library.
  • I wrinkled my nose distrustfully because this was not how things worked. I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone
  • And take that Hal Holbrook-looking, shriveled up, wrinkled hosebag bigot Geraldine Ferraro with you. Clinton: 'This is nowhere near over'
  • The eyes darted suspicion and malice at him and the nose was wrinkled in distaste. A TROUT IN THE MILK
  • The wrinkled silk will flatten out again if you iron it.
  • ‘Well at least wash it,’ Jane wrinkled her nose as she plucked at his cloak.
  • Randilyn's clothes looked very wrinkled, and her makeup was smudged.
  • Tel reached into a fold in her tunic and brought forth a somewhat wrinkled manuscript written on new, white parchment.
  • A voice answered from behind her, before a wrinkled hand clamped down on the girl's shoulder, making her jump into the air from a case of sudden fright.
  • I expected to see the face of someone young, but instead I saw the old and wrinkled face of a man looking older than anyone I had ever met.
  • A wrinkled old hill woman was the sole curator and keeper of the gallery then.
  • The huge figure settled itself onto the divan next to Ramses, who wrinkled his nose involuntarily as a wave of patchouli wafted round him. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
  • For example : Forward galley at flight deck entrance has areas of wrinkled wallpaper.
  • His wrinkled face is angular but kindly. Times, Sunday Times
  • Bin Laden misses a cue in one and another shows him with a wrinkled backdrop.
  • She could still feel the wrinkled skin of her fingers from the apple's juice and the dull twinge of pain that penetrated every muscle in her back.
  • his face wrinkled in a silent laugh of derision
  • Katy's brow wrinkled and she tensed, preparing herself for the instructions coming.
  • To wreathe her wrinkled brow with well saved "combings" -- Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs
  • We're dog-tired, Wrinkled as a Sharpei and barking like a bitch. Introduction to the WOOF Pack | The Stiletto Gang
  • She felt safe the moment that she was perched on the arm of her grandfather's chair, her soft clasp about his stiff old neck, her tears flowing over her cheeks, all pink anew, escaping upon his wrinkled, bloodless, pale visage and taking all the starch out of his old-fashioned steinkirk. The Frontiersmen
  • Her blue eyes were narrowed, her mouth scrunched up, her forehead wrinkled.
  • His wrinkled face is angular but kindly. Times, Sunday Times
  • His brow wrinkled as if to ask me what was wrong, and I just sighed.
  • Did you feel that it in any way gave a more youthful appearance, or less wrinkled skin? Take Care of Your Skin
  • Their skins will become loose, wrinkled and easy to wrest away. Times, Sunday Times
  • Picking up a baby blue Roxy shirt, she wrinkled her nose and tossed it back into the ever-growing pile of clothes on the floor behind her.
  • Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay in, the more wrinkled you get.
  • South of Shadowlight, which offered no resistance, the land rose and became gorsy, stony, and as wrinkled as my mother-in-law's face. She Is The Darkness
  • He looked in his seventies, a wrinkled, spidery little man with four long grey hairs, standing straight up on the top of his bald head. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
  • So up and down the spiral staircases he goes, a rumpled mess wearing a wrinkled golf shirt, disheveled graying hair, and the scars and weariness from a lifetime's worth of beatings. Sunday Reading
  • The wrinkled silk will flatten out again if you iron it.
  • The paper has wrinkled where it got wet.
  • It settled green on the wrinkled grey forehead. Somewhere East of Life
  • This gown had long, tight, wrinkled sleeves, coming down over the hand, and finished with a ruffle of yellow lace; the neck, rounded and half-low, had a similar ruffle almost deep enough to be called a ruff; the waist, if it could be called a waist, was up under the arms: briefly, a costume of my grandmother's time. The Green Satin Gown
  • I wrinkled my nose in her general direction and continued to my locker at the far end of the hallway.
  • After a few moments she would rise up again, her white hair now plastered against her wrinkled but still elegant face. Times, Sunday Times
  • He paused for a moment, obviously thinking as his tan brow wrinkled.
  • Carter wrinkled his forehead in concentration.
  • He was a slight man with a wrinkled face and a mop of grey hair. Times, Sunday Times
  • Alex wrinkled up her nose at the smell.
  • The old man's wrinkled face creased into a warm smile.
  • Kendall wrinkled her nose enhancing her freckles splattered across her face.
  • Buy soft fruit with wrinkled and shriveled skin.
  • His forehead was unwrinkled -- a rare thing in that prairie country where the dry air corrugates the skin; his light-brown hair curled loosely on the brow, graduating back to closer, crisper curls which in their thickness made a kind of furry cap. Wild Youth, Complete
  • The blank side of his face was much wrinkled and puckered up, which gave him a very sinister appearance, especially when he smiled, at which times his expression bordered closely on the villainous. Nicholas Nickleby
  • She wrinkled her nose at the smell.
  • She was still dressed in the clothes from last ni, ht, wrinkled and misshapen - skirt, dress, nylons, sweater and all. FAMILY BLESSINGS
  • He was an ancient, withered man, wrinkled and creased but corded like a whip, tempered hard in the forge of the Wilds.
  • While the paint and paper are still wet, place a piece of plastic wrap on top of the painted section, making sure the wrap is wrinkled.
  • Her normally sleek auburn hair was frizzy and knotted and her clothes were wrinkled from a night of restless sleep.
  • She looked at the wrinkled shirt, crumpled into a ball, lying on the floor.
  • Filler injections are used to smooth scarred, wrinkled, or furrowed skin on the face.
  • The lama brought his thousand-wrinkled face once more a handsbreadth from the Englishman’s. Kim
  • I surreptitiously sniffed at my own armpits and wrinkled my nose a little.
  • His wrinkled, spotted, but otherwise normal hands stroked the damp upper round of a stromatolite. VITALS
  • His face was wrinkled and brown, like the exterior of that incomprehensible fruit the medlar, which is never ripe till it is bad, and then it is to be avoided. The Slave of the Lamp
  • Perspiration ran down her wrinkled face, and a wide white smile split the ashy web of fine wrinkles on it. DOWNTOWN
  • She flopped down onto her bed, obviously abandoning any intentions of keeping her dress and caped unwrinkled.
  • Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay in,(Sentencedict) the more wrinkled you get.
  • A little further on, a hard – featured old man with a deeply – wrinkled face, was intently perusing a lengthy will with the aid of a pair of horn spectacles: occasionally pausing from his task, and slily noting down some brief memorandum of the bequests contained in it. Sketches by Boz
  • Certainly, the cassowary's clawed wings, scaly legs, featherless heads, wrinkled necks, and large size give them a dinosaur-like appearance.
  • When t 'deeath-smear clems a wrinkled broo, sike disn't fet yan's want. ( Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems
  • With nose serrulated by continuous spasms, hair bristling in recurrent waves, tongue whipping out like a red snake and whipping back again, ears flattened down, eyes gleaming hatred, lips wrinkled back, and fangs exposed and dripping, he could compel a pause on the part of almost any assailant. The Outcast
  • Clean, unwrinkled clothing is very important to urban working-class people.
  • His wrinkled, ill-fitting grey suit blended in with the grey background. Times, Sunday Times
  • The fruit-stalk is short, nearly cylindrical, never deeply five-furrowed, but merely longitudinally striated or wrinkled, and never clavated, or enlarged with projecting angles, next to the fruit. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
  • The wrinkled water was like armor damascened and polished. Main Street
  • We rushed through quick showers and changed into wrinkled civilian clothes.
  • When shopping for blueberries at market, choose the ones that appear plump, unwrinkled and free of leaves and stems.
  • Her sleek dark brown hair is pulled back into a resolute bun yet has become slightly disheveled and a few stray strands rest on her unwrinkled forehead.
  • The animal contracts, loses water, and takes on a shriveled, wrinkled appearance.
  • She wrinkled up her nose at the strange smell coming from the kitchen.
  • Once your plant has gotten to the point of being limp, leathery, and wrinkled, reviving the plant is usually a long process and often unsuccessful.
  • Bellows, a shell of wrinkled meridian of revolution, is commonly used as an elastic-sensitive element in aircraft meters, and a flexible joint in pipeline systems.
  • Their skins will become loose, wrinkled and easy to wrest away. Times, Sunday Times
  • The wind wrinkled the water with waves.
  • He could feel her bones through the soft, wrinkled, sun-spotted skin.
  • His face was wrinkled, and the bags under his eyes did not help to make him look any younger.
  • Large dried and smoked Jalapeños, called chipotles, are wrinkled and warm brown in colour.
  • He covered his disbelief with a feigned smile, walking his wrinkled fingers across the deep mahogany colored desk.
  • True, she was rather old, but she was unwrinkled and stood up straight and tall.
  • It was one of the few dresses that I had managed to save from the fire, untouched by flame and perfectly intact and unwrinkled.
  • She folded up that wrinkled piece of paper and walked down the steps.
  • She wrinkled her nose at the acrid, vinegary fumes emitted from the bottle.
  • There are some women who think motherhood is an excuse to wear a tattered, stained, wrinkled, baggy T-shirt with schlumpy pleated khakis and a pair of sneakers that look like you need to head for the hills if they ever took them off in your presence.
  • If your skin is dry or wrinkled around the eyes, choose a lighter, liquid concealer, which is more moisturizing than a creamier concealer. Best in Beauty

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