Absurd as it was, the phrase crinkled Stanton's heart just the merest trifle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Molly Make-Believe] Reference

"crinkled" no longer claims to be a badge of superior sanctity.    From Wordnik.com.  [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference

And the other fellow-his left ear was kind of crinkled, if you know what I mean. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hidden Staircase]

Harry's face crinkled again in his all-over smile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unwise Child] Reference

The genial lines crinkled lightly in Tisdale's face.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rim of the Desert] Reference

But Daoud saw understanding in the crinkled brown face.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference

It was crinkled at the top, but otherwise looked correct.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way It Smelled] Reference

Otherwise it gets all ripped and crinkled, and I hate that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The View From The Starting Line] Reference

They were crinkled and soaked and water-logged and shrunken.    From Wordnik.com.  [Injun and Whitey to the Rescue] Reference

 Her face crinkled below her pink-blond hair like I'd farted.    From Wordnik.com.  [How I Used to Ponder Stars] Reference

"Ah," Willcoe said, in a voice that sounded like crinkled paper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Supermind] Reference

We have often wondered how our collars get those crinkled edges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-08] Reference

Miss Campbell rose and lifted her little crinkled hand for silence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference

The German made a short bow and his round face crinkled into a smile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frontier Boys in Frisco] Reference

After they have been arranged, the edges may be crinkled down somewhat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Make Your Own Hats] Reference

Claire crinkled up her eyes and rolled her lips into an O and said, Oooo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ann, meet Bob] Reference

  When I came in, she crinkled her brow at my purchase and went to her room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Every Time a Bell Rings] Reference

As soon as the oysters are crinkled serve on hot buttered toast on hot plates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining.] Reference

A quizzical smile crinkled the corners of his eyes as he "hefted" his burdens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference

Her crinkled hair was combed quaintly over her ears and back from her forehead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tin Soldier] Reference

Then, with her blamed, sassy little nose all crinkled up; 'my! how it does smell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference

They were fragile, as if of tissue, and were beaded at the crinkled tips with dew.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragon Painter] Reference

Heidi is impressed by the skirt, which was a crinkled tube he pressed with an iron.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: Project Runway Episode 4, "Hats Off To You"] Reference

           The corners of the barmaid's eyes crinkled up when she smiled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bad Boys, Bad Boys, 2] Reference

The sliver of ocean at the bottom of a fall 2006 picture looks like crinkled tinfoil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art review: ‘Phil Nesmith: Flow' at Irvine Contemporary & Renate Aller at Adamson Gallery] Reference

Luther Hansen's face crinkled into fine lines and his blue-gray eyes laughed amusedly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference

A creeper, planted at the corner of the veranda, already sent out pale, crinkled shoots.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rim of the Desert] Reference

Powell's scalp crinkled in disgust as he realized the nature of the thing confronting him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil Crystals of Arret] Reference

"Thank you, Betty," he returned, with the ready smile that crinkled the corners of his eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference

She does not look sixteen and her crinkled hair drizzles around her face like bleached tinsel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Line] Reference

I tore a strip from the newspaper, crinkled it carefully and put it away in my cigarette-case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914] Reference

The bank notes no longer crinkled when he walked; they had taken the contour of his hairy chest.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference

This is powerful medicine in a lovely green, crinkled leaf that anyone can obtain for a low cost.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Richard Palmquist: Green Veterinary Medicine: Veggies for Pets] Reference

She pulled her Honda into the lot that housed the crinkled aluminum building that faced Front Street.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventy-two Hours or Less] Reference

When all at once her face crinkled in a sudden irresistible smile, even the seniors said she was dear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls] Reference

But, "the tiny lines about her eyes crinkled in amusement," at present you are just a little too perfect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ralestone Luck] Reference

The old face twitched and the soiled, crinkled arms -- so empty and yearning -- hugged the trembling body.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shield of Silence] Reference

They clung to the sides of the shell, swum round it, or climbed up to rest themselves on its crinkled edges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soap-Bubble Stories For Children] Reference