Verb (used with object), verb (used without object) : Worry puckered his brow. From Dictionary.com.
The professor's smiling expression puckered into one of prim censure. From Wordnik.com. [A Kiss Remembered]
It was as though it was puckered out of all shape. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
Elizabeth's brow was drawn into a puckered wrinkle. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
Her cheeks puckered as blood poured into her stomach. From Wordnik.com. [s Vacation] Reference
He puckered his lips and shook his head in perplexity. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
Roland puckered his brows for a moment, then he began. From Wordnik.com. [Bulbs and Blossoms] Reference
The expressman puckered his lips into a curious expression. From Wordnik.com. [How Janice Day Won] Reference
Joy answered with a toss of her head and a puckered-up grin. From Wordnik.com. [The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure] Reference
Then he puckered his mouth, curiously, as if trying to whistle. From Wordnik.com. [Old Valentines A Love Story] Reference
Her plain, pleasant face was puckered with anxiety, her eyes searched. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
So, too, is the paint in the dining room that is puckered in one spot. From Wordnik.com. [I can have my dream house, at least until I wake up] Reference
Chicken Little puckered her brow for a moment trying to think this out. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
His rosy mouth was puckered into something between a whistle and a smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference
An unmistakable frown puckered Mary's brows, but Marjorie did not see it. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
His forehead puckered up like he was squeezing his thoughts one by one. From Wordnik.com. [Rescue 1973] Reference
But to himself the Senator muttered, with puckered brow and half-shut eyes. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
Grace's smooth forehead puckered in a frown which her laughing lips denied. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Problem] Reference
Baroness puckered up her rosy lips and sang the stanzas of the Japanese maestro. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The knights had all close dresses of white satin, puckered in a variety of ways. From Wordnik.com. [Coronation Anecdotes] Reference
She then held her tea up to puckered lips with both hands, but didn't take a sip. From Wordnik.com. [Who Will Carry Us?] Reference
Isabel's mother's grotesque lips puckered from her face in two liver pink heaps. From Wordnik.com. [Isabel and I] Reference
"'The enemy attacked in force our lines south of Cambrai,'" she read, with puckered brow. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in Army Service Or, doing their bit for the soldier boys] Reference
Peace puckered her rosy lips, Allee opened her baby mouth, and this is the song they sang. From Wordnik.com. [At the Little Brown House] Reference
She held her breath again to harken to the music, then puckered her lips and mocked its song. From Wordnik.com. [The Lilac Lady] Reference
"I believe something struck me -- they puckered at the corners a bit -- rather attractively.". From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
Today we're all tuckered out on chemicals; we're puckered and sucked dry like sticks of jerky. From Wordnik.com. [the plunge] Reference
They are angry looking, with ragged, raised margins, and when they heal leave a puckered scar. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
"How are you to-day, Majah, sah?" he asked while his puckered and wrinkled face tried to smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
The leaves are yellowing, and the edges are puckered and careworn; they are falling from on high. From Wordnik.com. [When Leaves Fall] Reference
Queen Elizabeth was seated in her private apartment, her white forehead puckered in anxious lines. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from English History] Reference
But she had regained it, and now her heart did not flutter and her lips were no longer puckered. From Wordnik.com. [The Paprika Ewer] Reference
The pressed tin ceiling, puckered from water damage, hung so low her husband could not straighten his shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Jew] Reference
"What the hell's the matter with those pickles?" he asks, his face puckered up as if he has swallowed a lemon. From Wordnik.com. [Your Guide to a WASP Bar Mitzvah] Reference
My deep-in-concentration look involves cocking my head and locking up to the right, knuckles on my chin and lips puckered. From Wordnik.com. [The Saurians' Revenge] Reference
Fergie walked, talked and puckered up with the animals at Toronto's Royal Winter Fair two weeks ago, where beasts mingled with guests. From Wordnik.com. [Love At First Lick] Reference
That night as they slept I pried open their puckered lids, already knowing what I would see: eyes flat and white as fluorescent lights. From Wordnik.com. [Zom Prom Mom] Reference
With a little prompting, he shows off his battle scars - puckered, pinkish wounds that are on his arms, his hips, his legs, even his feet. From Wordnik.com. [Progress In Kandahar A Matter Of Whom To Trust] Reference
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