(v. t.) To draw or press into wrinkles or folds; to crush together; to rumple; as, to crumple paper.
(v. i.) To contract irregularly; to show wrinkles after being crushed together; as, leaves crumple.
Example Sentences:
(1) Synapses or other sites that might be responsible for exciting these muscles during crumpling have not been found.
(2) 3 Once chilled, line the pastry with crumpled baking parchment and then with baking beans or dried pulses and bake blind for 15 mins.
(3) A sixth conducting pathway is the epithelial system, which mediates crumpling, a response involving the radial muscles without pacemaker intervention.
(4) The BBC had a great subject: working-class, postwar Britain was being revealed.” Frears, a great crumpled bear of a man whom I met at his regular cafe in Notting Hill, said: “I tell you what: it’s really the growth of management you should be writing about.
(5) Congenital contractural arachnodactyly (CCA) was described by Beals and Hecht as an autosomal dominant disorder distinct from Marfan syndrome and comprising joint contractures, arachnodactyly, scoliosis, and a distinct "crumpled ear" deformity.
(6) she cried, jabbing the sculpture with a pole until it crumpled.
(7) A lesser side might have crumpled, particularly after the clumpy 2-2 draw against Sunderland that left them six points behind the following Wednesday, with only one game in hand.
(8) It is the details of Martin's story that catch in the throat: his anxiety about his mother's wellbeing; his conviction that if he had been more helpful she would have wanted him to stay; his gentle care for the neighbourhood cats; the crumpled piece of bread he carries in his pocket for comfort.
(9) Louis van Gaal described it as “one of our best matches this season” and, even if he was exaggerating at times, talking about their opening 35 minutes being “unbelievably good,” it says a lot about Leicester that they refused to crumple.
(10) pedicaled subcutis muscle flaps, free tissue flaps or bone chips) we see no crumpling up of the obliterated areas and no retractions.
(11) Dressed in black Armani and heels, she walked the corridors, perching on desks reminding the crumpled agents that they were not only talented but handsome.
(12) We describe a male neonate with severe arachnodactyly, hypermobility of the fingers, flexion contractures of elbows, wrists, hips, and knees, micrognathia, crumpled ears, rockerbottom feet, loose redundant skin, and ocular abnormalities.
(13) The hands and feet appeared to be swollen and crumpled.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Crumpled Guggenheim … inside the rotunda.
(15) He began to make still-life photographs of his own discarded clothes, battered and crumpled and suggestively sexual, as if they still held the scent and warmth of the person who had worn them.
(16) The manner in which they had crumpled was almost shocking to see.
(17) The new houses paid for by the casino revenues, clustered together in their own neighbourhoods, stand out from the crumpled homes that have endured decades of desert winds.
(18) It is argued that these swollen and crumpled fiber knots are slowly degenerating fibers.
(19) Two triangular lobes jut into this space on either side, housing science and technology labs, their faceted forms giving it all the look of a crumpled New York Guggenheim rotunda .
(20) "You could see the little girls, fat with complacency and conceit while the little boys sat there crumpled, apologising for their existence, thinking this was going to be the pattern of their lives."
Crumpling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crumple
Example Sentences:
(1) Synapses or other sites that might be responsible for exciting these muscles during crumpling have not been found.
(2) 3 Once chilled, line the pastry with crumpled baking parchment and then with baking beans or dried pulses and bake blind for 15 mins.
(3) A sixth conducting pathway is the epithelial system, which mediates crumpling, a response involving the radial muscles without pacemaker intervention.
(4) The BBC had a great subject: working-class, postwar Britain was being revealed.” Frears, a great crumpled bear of a man whom I met at his regular cafe in Notting Hill, said: “I tell you what: it’s really the growth of management you should be writing about.
(5) Congenital contractural arachnodactyly (CCA) was described by Beals and Hecht as an autosomal dominant disorder distinct from Marfan syndrome and comprising joint contractures, arachnodactyly, scoliosis, and a distinct "crumpled ear" deformity.
(6) she cried, jabbing the sculpture with a pole until it crumpled.
(7) A lesser side might have crumpled, particularly after the clumpy 2-2 draw against Sunderland that left them six points behind the following Wednesday, with only one game in hand.
(8) It is the details of Martin's story that catch in the throat: his anxiety about his mother's wellbeing; his conviction that if he had been more helpful she would have wanted him to stay; his gentle care for the neighbourhood cats; the crumpled piece of bread he carries in his pocket for comfort.
(9) Louis van Gaal described it as “one of our best matches this season” and, even if he was exaggerating at times, talking about their opening 35 minutes being “unbelievably good,” it says a lot about Leicester that they refused to crumple.
(10) pedicaled subcutis muscle flaps, free tissue flaps or bone chips) we see no crumpling up of the obliterated areas and no retractions.
(11) Dressed in black Armani and heels, she walked the corridors, perching on desks reminding the crumpled agents that they were not only talented but handsome.
(12) We describe a male neonate with severe arachnodactyly, hypermobility of the fingers, flexion contractures of elbows, wrists, hips, and knees, micrognathia, crumpled ears, rockerbottom feet, loose redundant skin, and ocular abnormalities.
(13) The hands and feet appeared to be swollen and crumpled.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Crumpled Guggenheim … inside the rotunda.
(15) He began to make still-life photographs of his own discarded clothes, battered and crumpled and suggestively sexual, as if they still held the scent and warmth of the person who had worn them.
(16) The manner in which they had crumpled was almost shocking to see.
(17) The new houses paid for by the casino revenues, clustered together in their own neighbourhoods, stand out from the crumpled homes that have endured decades of desert winds.
(18) It is argued that these swollen and crumpled fiber knots are slowly degenerating fibers.
(19) Two triangular lobes jut into this space on either side, housing science and technology labs, their faceted forms giving it all the look of a crumpled New York Guggenheim rotunda .
(20) "You could see the little girls, fat with complacency and conceit while the little boys sat there crumpled, apologising for their existence, thinking this was going to be the pattern of their lives."