To gather something into small wrinkles or folds.
Become wrinkled or crumpled or creased.
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Examples for "crease "
Examples for "crease "
1 Greer's age deepens in the way his wrinkles crease , his body slouches.
2 The point found the gap, the secret crease gave to the blade.
3 Use the color Sable to softly define the crease and create depth.
4 Fold the halves into fourths and the fourths into eighths and crease .
5 Flames goaltender David Rittich was assessed two minutes for leaving his crease .
1 Dr Donna Lacap-Bugler answers: Why do hands and feet wrinkle in water?
2 I said, convinced I'd just found the fatal wrinkle in her argument.
3 The lines of the smile were as deeply marked as the wrinkle .
4 Every wrinkle shows in that room what with all those overhead lights.
5 The Englishman bowed again, the wrinkle of a smile on his face.
1 By the way his brows crinkle I know I have guessed correctly.
2 Then he looked at Billy, a crinkle of amusement in his eyes.
3 There was cloth underneath me, and the crinkle of plastic underneath that.
4 All at once the crinkle of a chill ran across the Chevalier's shoulders.
5 Her smile grows, and that adorable crinkle forms between her eyebrows.
Disturb the smoothness of.
1 This was perhaps because she disliked to rumple her beautifully starched skirts.
2 She turned to rumple the smooth light thatch of his hair.
3 His outfit was a color-clashing, coffee-stained rumple that stank of cigarettes and sweat.
4 Besides, children are sticky little creatures who babble and cling and rumple clothing.
5 Perhaps Clara had been afraid Peggy would rumple her dress.
6 So she continued to playfully rumple his hair and kept her thoughts to herself.
7 Besides, children rumple and spoil my dress, and she looked down at herself approvingly.
8 Now Chloris laughed, and quittedherqueerembroidery in order to rumple up his hair.
9 Ye shall not rumple thus my shift so white.
10 I like dancing very much better with girls, for they never squeeze and rumple one.
11 He allowed the man to stroke his head and rumple the thick fur on his back.
12 She was afraid to refold the dress, almost afraid to touch it, lest she rumple it.
13 It is, perhaps, more difficult to rumple up a bed than to put it in order again.
14 Then he began to tear away his beautiful necktie and to recklessly rumple his gorgeous shirt front.
15 I won't let you; you'd rumple me.
16 Madame-(hastily)-Notthere ,mydear, you will rumple my skirt.
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About this term rumple
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