77 examples of crinkled in sentences

I made my bed in a nook of the pine-thicket, where the branches were pressed and crinkled overhead like a roof, and bent down around the sides.

It first resembles a crinkled ribbon of silver hanging loosely down the wall, but grows wider as it descends, and dashes the dull rock with foam.

" She was close to him, her cheek crinkled against his with the frank kind of social unconsciousness the park bench seems to engender.

Thus drawn into the picture, Genevieve, at thirteen, crinkled her face for not uncalculating tears.

She regarded him wryly, her eyes crinkled now quite to slits.

Even the hands were crinkled like too large gloves, a wide, curiously etched marriage band hanging loosely from the third finger.

The pink crescents of new graves scarred the hillsides, already scalloped and crinkled with shelving abodes of the venerable dead.

The Indian woman's fat face crinkled to an expansive smile.

" The girl stooped lower over the blue bowl, perhaps to hide the little smile which crinkled up the corner of her mouth.

Its broad, crinkled and bright green leaves are rather like those of a lettuce.

Through the following year, the political sky grew ever darker with impending clouds, crinkled with lightning, and vocal with growlings of approaching thunder.

And there the letter lay, face downward on the seat he had just left, bent and a little crinkled in proof that he had been sitting on it for some minutes past.

Adj. angular, bent, crooked, aduncous^, uncinated^, aquiline, jagged, serrated; falciform^, falcated^; furcated^, forked, bifurcate, zigzag; furcular^; hooked; dovetailed; knock kneed, crinkled, akimbo, kimbo^, geniculated^; oblique &c 217.

There were three of these negresses, splendid bronze creatures, wearing white djellabahs over bright-coloured caftans, striped scarves knotted about their large hips, and gauze turbans on their crinkled hair.

I just raved and raved over that car until Father's eyes crinkled all up in little smile wrinkles, and he said: "I'm glad.

We watched her press beads of proper size and color into the eye sockets; skilfully finish the base upon which each figure lay; then twist a lump of butter into a square of fine muslin, and deftly squeeze, until it crinkled through the meshes in form of fleece for the lamb's coat, then use a different mesh to produce the strands for the lion's mane and the tuft for the end of his tail.

By climbing over rocks thick with periwinkles, and splashing through great sloppy stretches of crinkled sea-weed, which give a raw stench of brine, I entered the first of the gullies: a narrow, long, winding one, with sides polished by the sea-wash, and the floor rising inwards.

Not a vestige of hair or of white skin remained, but in place of it was a dreadful crinkled discoloured surface with a sharp red line running across his brow and round over his ears.

He had grown a beard; it crinkled thickly, hiding his mouth and chin.

And the red candleshades were only crinkled paper; the lace curtains showed many careful darns.

The skin of his body was extremely white up to the brown line of his neck, and the angry crinkled spots looked the more vivid against it.

Miranda crinkled a smile so rife with love and insight that Anna's eyes suddenly ran full and she glided to her knees by the seated one and into her arms, murmuring, "You ought both of you to be ashamed of yourselves!

The little man shook hands cordially with me, and his face crinkled up into the sort of smile that one might expect to see on a benevolent walnut.

He showed me how to damp it and "wring" it while it was wet, tying up the material as the Orientals do in their "tie and dry" process, so that when it was dry and untied, it was all crinkled and clinging.

Formosa was so far away eastwarda crinkled line drawn faintly with a fine blue pencil, showing as an artistic scrawl on the canvass of the low cloudswe could hardly claim when the sketch of the distant land faded from view, that we had seen Japan.

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