8 Verbs to Use for the Word crimp

Cold facts comes and puts a crimp in them.

The niggardliness of owners of ships caused them to pick up their crews at haphazard by paying crimps to herd them from lodging-houses and saloons an hour or two before sailing to save a day's wages.

Barbara herself had pinched Arctura's crimps, and tied the little white bow among-them.

She smoothed out her crimps with a wet and ruthless hand; fastened up her pretty hair in the simple way Jack liked; gave her once cherished bonnet a spiteful shake, as she put it on, and utterly extinguished it with a big blue veil.

But when he awoke in the morning, there stood Angeline in front of the glass taking her hair out of curl papers; and then he slowly began to realize the tremendous change that had come into their lives, when his wife committed the unprecedented act of taking her crimps out before breakfast.

You see, everybody has a different fear to throw a crimp in them.

"I've brushed out half my crimps," she said, again; "and my ruffle is basted in wrong side out, and altogether I'm got up à la furieuse!"

"If the papers get hold of this affair, and state that our presidentour biggest ownerthe man who controls the Continental stockis a common thief, the story willehehput a bad crimp in our business, so to speak.

8 Verbs to Use for the Word  crimp