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Example sentences for "wrinkles"

Lexicographically close words:
wringer; wringing; wrings; wrinkle; wrinkled; wrinkling; wrinkly; wrist; wristband; wristbands
  1. He stood pointing dreamily at the thickest part of his forearm, just where the jacket-sleeve went into wrinkles through the bending of the joint.

  2. Grim-visaged war had few wrinkles on his front in that neighborhood.

  3. We could see from our windows Rebels strutting about in overcoats, in which the box wrinkles were still plainly visible, wearing new "U.

  4. Anxiety and cunning were depicted in the narrow, insignificant face, with its wrinkles incrusted by thick layers of red and white paint.

  5. The craftiness of an inquisitor, revealed in those curving wrinkles and creases that wound about his temples, indicated a profound knowledge of life.

  6. The wrinkles of the body in general proceed from this cause; but those of the face seem to proceed from another, namely, from that variety of positions into which it is put by the speech, the food, or the passions.

  7. His red forehead became a network of wrinkles and his scant white eyebrows bristled.

  8. Here the surface of the map is covered up with the tortuous wrinkles of the hills.

  9. Mr. Harby stood sturdy and unmoved, waiting now to have done, with the twinkling, tiny wrinkles of an ironical smile at the corners of his eyes.

  10. The eyebrows of the round, perceiving, but unconcerned eyes were rather high up, with slight wrinkles above them, just as a monkey's had.

  11. A big swashbuckler of a man with a hard face, hard blue eyes with quizzical wrinkles around them.

  12. Her face is corrugated with wrinkles and as tough as leather.

  13. They seemed wrinkles of good humour till you looked closer.

  14. Already the sweat had started on his forehead, and across one cheek the old gray fretwork of wrinkles began to shadow suddenly.

  15. Furrowed abruptly from brow to chin with myriad infinitesimal wrinkles of perplexity, his lean, droll face looked suddenly almost monkeyish in its intentness.

  16. Many little wrinkles radiated fanlike from the corners of his eyes.

  17. Wrinkles are as frequently produced by the motion of the part as by the advance of age.

  18. If the yacht is coppered, wrinkles must be looked for under the channels, runners, and about the bilge.

  19. The writer hopes that these few wrinkles may prove as serviceable to the readers of these pages as they have been from time to time to himself.

  20. Even if, in after life, we return to the scenes of our childhood, they have lost the bloom of youth, and in its place we see the wrinkles of that age which has graven its hard lines upon our hearts.

  21. The wrinkles of his coat, after it was on, were cut out by the tailor, and carefully drawn up with the needle.

  22. A hundred cares wreck his heart, countless anxieties trace their wrinkles on his brow, until his inmost self is bowed beneath the burden of life.

  23. Mr. Spragg held her away at arm's length, a smile drawing up the loose wrinkles about his eyes.

  24. Merlin," Lamorak growled; And then there were more wrinkles round his eyes Than Bedivere had said were possible.

  25. In Broceliande Time overtook me as I knew he must; And I, with a fond overplus of words, Had warned the lady Vivian already, Before these wrinkles and this hesitancy Inhibiting my joints oppressed her sight With age and dissolution.

  26. It often wrinkles up his face, and ties hard knots in the wrinkled lines.

  27. But I found that the wrinkles grew thick, and the physical strength gave out, and yet at the end of vigorous campaigning there seemed about as much left to do as ever.

  28. This other little brother, Whose name is Little Bert, Frowns in a dreadful manner Whenever he is hurt; The wrinkles right above his nose Look like the letter M, He keeps them there so long, he must Be very fond of them.

  29. I pictured them to myself, adorned with all the venerable loveliness of a virtuous old age,--even in greyness engaging, even in wrinkles interesting.

  30. But he did not speak further for the moment and Enistor employed the time in trying to read the inscrutable face, which was seamed with a thousand wrinkles and made quite inhuman by the passionless look of the cold, steady, blue eyes.

  31. It always wrinkles one dreadfully to think, you know.

  32. She commenced stirring again, with two little wrinkles between her brows.

  33. Never cry over spilt milk, Mrs. Endey; it makes a body get wrinkles too fast.

  34. As she was thin, her face showed the lines and fine wrinkles which at middle age offset a slender waist.

  35. She now wishes me to sit to her," said Mrs. Franklin; "for my wrinkles have grown so deep lately that she is sure she can make something satisfactorily hideous.

  36. Most of my wrinkles have been caused by my wretched habit of contorting my poor thin slave of a face, partly of course to show my intelligence and appreciation, but really, also, in a large measure from sympathy.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wrinkles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.