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Example sentences for "crinkled"

Lexicographically close words:
cringed; cringing; cringle; crinibus; crinkle; crinkles; crinkling; crinkly; crinoid; crinoids
  1. Should you not have blue china suitable for the confectionery, deftly cover white china with blue crinkled paper, and so preserve the colors.

  2. Put on a small table, a mat of pink crinkled tissue paper, and in the centre stand a cut-glass rose-bowl.

  3. Such a treatment may have been suggested to the artist by familiarity with some material of a crinkled texture, such as that used for sheets and table-cloths in some Greek villages to-day.

  4. Mrs. Richie; and then her eyes crinkled with gayety at his concern.

  5. He was dead, but his face was smiling and in his withered hands were the crinkled papers on which Oscar in his boyhood had scribbled his childish compositions.

  6. Nobody knew what the papers were, except that they were old and that they crinkled in his stiff fingers.

  7. In what an effeminate manner the hair crinkled above it, and then went rambling off into half a yard of stylish disorder!

  8. Why, darn his crinkled old hide, I'll show him.

  9. The threads of the line snapped and crinkled from the heat.

  10. The road, muddy with recent rains, plashed under the horses' hoofs and a cold evening wind crinkled the winter wheat.

  11. Golden marigold buttons dotted the marshy spots, and the bur-reed stretched out its bristly fruit on crinkled arms.

  12. He did not exactly smile his thanks, but the mask of his melancholy crinkled round the edges and raised slightly.

  13. She slid her free hand beneath the pillow on which her head rested and brought forth a crinkled sheet of paper and held it out to him.

  14. And this slim, eager, shy Polly, with her crinkled brown hair and her freckled nose, this was really Eleanor Brighton.

  15. The yellow-green of wheat and the blue-green of oats stretched out, a smooth expanse that rippled and crinkled as the wind and the sweeping shadow of a cloud went slowly down the valley.

  16. Like a scorching hot August breeze the magic, woodsy fragrance crinkled through his nostrils.

  17. Absurd as it was, the phrase crinkled Stanton's heart just the merest trifle.

  18. The rough iron and rusty chain cast curious crinkled shadows, and presently, as the iron sank into the slate-coloured mud and the chain tightened, the shadow was single but infirm.

  19. A crinkled fist, fumbling and twisting, protruded from a rent in a dilapidated dilly-bag.

  20. A door gave way to a pergola of square concrete columns spanned with redwood logs and interlaced with smaller trunks of redwood, all rough and crinkled velvet with the ruddy purple of the bark.

  21. It was an irresistible smile, a smile that lighted the eyes with the radiance of good fellowship and that crinkled the corners into tiny, genial lines.

  22. But Dick, his shoulder toward her, laughing over some quip of Hancock, was just turning his laughter-crinkled eyes toward her as he started to accompany Graham.

  23. She could still see him as he had towered above her--his crinkled hair waving back from his handsome head.

  24. There were her cheeks, and her crinkled copper hair under the little hat, and the flower that she wore, and her white hands as she poured the tea.

  25. Do you know," she said at last, sitting up and sticking the hairpins into her crinkled knot.

  26. She had worn no veil, her crinkled copper hair in all its beauty had been uncovered.

  27. He ran his fingers through his crinkled hair.

  28. There would have been the sight of his crinkled copper head, the sound of his voice, his teasing laugh to sustain her.

  29. He loosed a hairpin here and there and ran his fingers through the crinkled gold.

  30. But Edith's hair had not been crinkled and copper-colored, and Edith would have come straight up to him; she would not have hesitated on the top step as if afraid to advance.

  31. Quite soberly she got herself into a little nun's frock of gray with collars and cuffs of transparent white, and above it all was the glory of her crinkled hair.

  32. From a clear emerald the landscape had changed to a yellowish green, and the huge leaves had crinkled at the edges like shirred silk.

  33. He had recovered for a moment his air of bluff good-humour, and his face crinkled into a ruddy smile.

  34. Blazes Boylan walked here and there in new tan shoes about the fruitsmelling shop, lifting fruits, young juicy crinkled and plump red tomatoes, sniffing smells.

  35. A large rhubarb with a curious crinkled leaf grew here and there in the fields.

  36. All we had seen immediately to the West of the mountain had been of the greatest interest, and had suggested the idea that the crinkled summit there might be connected not directly with Mount Everest itself, but only by way of the South peak.

  37. Some of his deepest moments of content, before the fireplace, were to sit beside Villa or Harley and lean his head against a knee and have a hand, on occasion, drop down on his head or gently twist his crinkled ear.

  38. And he had that self-same crinkled ear," she hurried.

  39. And his brother had that self-same, loppy, crinkled ear.

  40. From the windows, which are all in a fantastic oriental style, crinkled and crankled, and supported by twisted pillars of smooth marble, striking, romantic views of the cliffs and village of Cintra are commanded.

  41. Can't see why ears grow on us, all crinkled like a shell, With lots of fancy carvings that make a feller yell Each time his Ma digs in them to get a speck of dirt, When plain ones would be easy to wash and wouldn't hurt.

  42. Then, as though it recalled some vague memory, she crinkled up her forehead and started to get out of bed.

  43. Already your nostrils crinkled to the lure of tar and oakum.

  44. He brought her a tiny phial of gasoline from his neighbor's automobile, and she crinkled up her nose in disgust and called it "gloves" and slapped it playfully out of his hand.

  45. Silent Tom's mouth again stretched across his face with triumph and his eyes crinkled up.

  46. He looked at the pool and was about to make another effort to go on, but the blue waters crinkled up and laughed under a light wind, and looked so inviting that he concluded to take the risk.

  47. The light from the arc lights made the wet asphalt shine like a crinkled sea under the moonlight.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crinkled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    corrugated; craggy; crumpled; furrowed; gravelly; harsh; ironbound; jagged; knitted; knotted; puckered; pursed; ragged; rippled; rockbound; rocky; rugged; rumpled; scraggly; scraggy; serrate; stony; wrinkled