To gather something into small wrinkles or folds.
Become wrinkled or crumpled or creased.
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Examples for "knit"
Examples for "knit"
1Participants described close-knit communities with limited access to confidential reproductive health care.
2Everyone is different; sometimes personalities knit nicely together, other times they don't.
3We bring in the raw material, and the women knit it up.
4The woman knit her brows; the problem set her was too difficult.
5Lucy was silent for a minute; her brows were knit in thought.
1But now, as Government revenues crumple, radical reform has become a necessity.
2I thought Sir Henry was going to crumple up in his chair.
3She smoothed it out, and the crumple transferred itself to her forehead.
4He saw the derringer fall and Kao crumple up like a jackknife.
5Afraid that if I looked away, she might crumple to the floor.
1She considered the estimate with the prettiest pucker of her meditative brows.
2And perforce she smiled in return, a pucker appearing between her eyebrows.
3There was a droll little pucker at the corner of her mouth.
4His face was very pale and drawn into a pucker of pain.
5She peered out the window, an ugly little pucker creasing her forehead.
1The parables of the sower and the cockle: of the mustardseed, etc.
2Stir in half a glass of sherry and serve in cockle shells.
3An important fish nursery that was once home to rich cockle beds.
4The paper will be found to cockle the mounts badly in drying.
5I had never been in such a cockle-shell of a steamer before.
Disturb the smoothness of.
1This was perhaps because she disliked to rumple her beautifully starched skirts.
2She turned to rumple the smooth light thatch of his hair.
3His outfit was a color-clashing, coffee-stained rumple that stank of cigarettes and sweat.
4Besides, children are sticky little creatures who babble and cling and rumple clothing.
5Perhaps Clara had been afraid Peggy would rumple her dress.
6So she continued to playfully rumple his hair and kept her thoughts to herself.
7Besides, children rumple and spoil my dress, and she looked down at herself approvingly.
8Now Chloris laughed, and quittedherqueerembroidery in order to rumple up his hair.
9Ye shall not rumple thus my shift so white.
10I like dancing very much better with girls, for they never squeeze and rumple one.
11He allowed the man to stroke his head and rumple the thick fur on his back.
12She was afraid to refold the dress, almost afraid to touch it, lest she rumple it.
13It is, perhaps, more difficult to rumple up a bed than to put it in order again.
14Then he began to tear away his beautiful necktie and to recklessly rumple his gorgeous shirt front.
15I won't let you; you'd rumple me.
16Madame-(hastily)-Notthere ,mydear, you will rumple my skirt.
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