crunched nuts.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The first piece kind of crunched between my teeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

Of course, we ditched the Oregonian long ago, and we've stopped a few other ameneties to make life a bit less "crunched".    From Wordnik.com.  [Two thirds of a day with an iPhone (Jack Bog's Blog)] Reference

My nose "crunched" in a collision with my daughter's head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and style | guardian.co.uk] Reference

"Every seat was taken, so we were kind of crunched up," he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

She said a BMW was "crunched" against the guardrail in the downvalley lanes in the slide area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aspen Times - Top Stories] Reference

It uttered a low squall, but the next moment its head was "crunched" between the muscular jaws of the puma.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference

And while the data was 'crunched', a myriad of not-controlled-for, influential factors leaves me unconvinced ... but interested.    From Wordnik.com.  [BlogHer] Reference

Or that his crunched face would be less flat and bruised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celebration] Reference

To those who've crunched the numbers, it's not a surprise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not Quite So Cheap] Reference

Computers allow numbers to be easily crunched; so they are.    From Wordnik.com.  [Technology In Reverse] Reference

The marauder had gnawed or crunched right through the bone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunting the Thylacine] Reference

Surprise and horror crunched our face with demonized wrinkles.    From Wordnik.com.  [November Moon] Reference

Luckily, the Tax Foundation has crunched those numbers as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Research desk compares: Who gets hit hardest if the Bush tax cuts expire?] Reference

The sea shushed as Peter's boots on my feet crunched the gravel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island] Reference

Something crunched beneath her feet, she didn't want to know what.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camera Obscura] Reference

It has crunched numbers and plotted sine waves for an entire generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [They Hacked Real Good, For Free] Reference

My brother Jalen crunched up leaves and stuffed them in Annabelle's mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captions] Reference

Then she crunched all the data together, and the results were unambiguous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wray Herbert: The Link Between Education and Living Longer] Reference

We crunched the numbers, compared the buys and came to the following conclusions.    From Wordnik.com.  [What you need to know about the NRCC and DCCC ad buys] Reference

Isabel was wrestling a tube metal chair from under some crunched-up chicken wire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prom Date] Reference

And then steps crunched on the snowy path that led to the shanty door, and Mike came in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys] Reference

Just so you know, the figures come from the NCAA and were crunched by the folks at the institute.    From Wordnik.com.  [March Madness In Black And White] Reference

He stood in their yard, his house slippers crunched in the frost underneath as he danced in the cold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Around Town] Reference

This means if you turn your back your neck will most certainly be crunched with every tooth they've got.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Short Snippet of Text] Reference

Great moon shaped vitamin C's that turned into a bitter chalk-like powder when you crunched down on them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vitamins] Reference

Linda fell down toward Roy at the last moment and was crunched between the front seats and the dashboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [s Vacation] Reference

I crunched and said the first thing that popped into my head, “What do you like best about Barcelona?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Witch from Bilbao] Reference

When someone is crunched for time, as most of us are, why take the long way anywhere instead of a shortcut?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Irene S. Levine: Let's Take The Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship] Reference

It gets so crowded and I get so crunched I just have to ask: When it gets this crowded, it doesn't bother you?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secret Stations And Boyhood Love On The Paris Metro] Reference

 In rain boots, I crunched across remnants of fish skeletons bristling from the exposed pond floor to get closer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dynamite] Reference

 He moved slowly down the stairs, his hand on the metal railing until his foot crunched into the gravel of the drive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eclipse] Reference

But buying in this market is no cakewalk, especially given the challenge of securing a loan in a credit-crunched environment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home buyers should look beyond low prices for long-term values] Reference

Four years ago, after the birth of her first child, she sat down with her husband, an auto mechanic, and crunched the numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smart Moms, Hard Choices] Reference

The researchers crunched numbers on waist circumference, height and weight to draw conclusions about who was more likely to die.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belly Bulge Can Be Deadly For Older Adults] Reference

Ms. SHERHOLZ: Another ongoing threat to the economic recovery is the fact that state and local budgets are really crunched right now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despite The Numbers, Jobs In Short Supply] Reference

It crunched off across the gravel road and onto the tarmac road that ran by the river and was soon a faint hum on the edge of silence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moon Over the Downs - excerpt] Reference

When he obtained it, he and his adviser, marketing professor Jehoshua Eliashberg, developed theories, wrote formulas and crunched numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rent or Buy That DVD?] Reference