(1) I scanned quickly through the available faces: there was one, all scrunched up in dismay about something or other.
(2) But my timid scrunch-face puts me so behind the curve that I might as well start training carrier pigeons.
(3) Crack in the egg and use your hands to scrunch everything together.
(4) He showed me a scrunched piece of paper, which was thrown into a school playground.
(5) He's scrunching up his eyes in order to forget the pain.
(6) 47 min Busquets pulls a short corner back to Alonso, who scrunches it miles over the bar from 20 yards.
(7) And learning the Korean for, “I need to go to the toilet,” would have saved me countless afternoons of scrunch-faced detergent-soaked floor-scrubbing.
(8) Villagers scramble towards the aircraft, arms aloft in supplication and eyes scrunched against the tornado whipped up by the rotor blades.
(9) I wasn’t sure what to do, so I just put on extra pairs of underwear and threw them away one-by-one, scrunched at the bottom of the bathroom trash bin, as I bled through them.
(10) When it came to paying, he pulled a pile of £50 notes out of his pocket, most of them scrunched up like used tissues.
(11) It may help to hold the potatoes in a scrunched-up towel.
(12) I was finishing at four [am] some days.” He cracks up again, the sound like a crisp packet being scrunched.
(13) Despite its hero's ineptitude, Goldfinger is full of quintessential Bond moments, all of which have since been recycled or spoofed so many times you forget this is where they began – Bond tricking the jailer into opening his cell door, a minor bad guy's car reduced to a scrunched-up cube in a scrapyard compactor, the villain shooting his own henchmen.
(14) 4 Scrunch up a large piece of greaseproof paper into a ball and smooth it back out again (I promisethis makes it much easier to work with).
(15) Apartment blocks were smashed, steel beams scrunched and metal fences shredded by shrapnel.
(16) And the final ball is fended away, quite possibly with his eyes scrunched close.
(17) He has scrunched up an entire stone corner of the London School of Economics into a rocky tumble, hanging precipitously above the street in Aldwych, and sliced a Thames dredger in half and anchored it outside the Millennium Dome.
(18) She is as chic and telegenic as he is overly tanned and scrunch-faced.
(19) Indoor ball games These are best played with a scrunched-up ball of paper.
(20) A copy of the Sun with the money edging up to £50,000 was found carefully folded in his flat, unlike a Daily Mirror, which was scrunched in the bin.
Squinch
Definition:
(n.) A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower; -- called also sconce, and sconcheon.
Example Sentences:
(1) The extent of these orbicularis festoons is evaluated by a careful examination--including the "squinch" and the "pinch" tests.