The vehicle will have features of regular road vehicles, such as crumple zones and airbags. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
But she says she knew it was time to leave after she watched a fetus "crumple" as it was vacuumed out of a patient's uterus. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
I was just going to when I saw you begin to crumple. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at School] Reference
Today's news has me fuming and I crumple up the memo. From Wordnik.com. [The Celebrity] Reference
Our little, neat hypotheses crumple like withered leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
He drew it out, scowling at it, and started to crumple it. From Wordnik.com. [Police Your Planet] Reference
On impact, the car's fenders crumple and its wheels pop off. From Wordnik.com. [Feel Like A Wreck?] Reference
Vistula rivers threatens to crumple the right flank positions of the. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
One had 150-mile-an-hour winds, strong enough to crumple five buildings. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2008] Reference
It wasn't a bird, so just what caused the nose of an airliner to crumple?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 9, 2008] Reference
I crumple two sheets of newspaper and put it in the bottom of my Weber Kettle. From Wordnik.com. [Craig "Meathead" Goldwyn: How to Grill Great Steakhouse Steaks] Reference
I had to agree but took no pleasure in watching my friend's expression crumple. From Wordnik.com. [Faulty Wine? When to Put a Cork In It] Reference
When released, it was not unusual to see a man crumple to the floor from exhaustion. From Wordnik.com. [Danger in Deep Space] Reference
Old man Genovese clucked his tongue, goose-like when he saw me crumple onto the porch. From Wordnik.com. [Wife Beater T] Reference
The sensation that he was going to cry, or throw up, or just crumple came on him again. From Wordnik.com. [Unprecedented weirdness] Reference
TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Let's take this map and crumple it up and get rid of it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 20, 2009] Reference
Cassie giggles into her empty glass. we crumple our lists. the boys always choose Cassie. From Wordnik.com. [Dreamphone Sleepover] Reference
"They start off like a house afire, but about the fifth inning they begin to crumple up.". From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference
Dave glanced over the edge again to see one of the tall buildings crumple under the impact. From Wordnik.com. [The Sky Is Falling] Reference
He pshawed and went behind Beth Anne, pushed her enough to push me and crumple us all bedward. From Wordnik.com. [None Of It Grace] Reference
The boy stared at the girl blankly for a moment, then seemed to crumple as if from a new blow. From Wordnik.com. [Murder at Bridge] Reference
It should spend billions of dollars on new rail cars that don't crumple readily in an accident. From Wordnik.com. [Metro simply has to get serious about safety] Reference
Ridgwell held his breath, for it almost seemed as if St. George's armour must indeed crumple up. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Lal A Fantasy] Reference
He squeezed himself through, peered carefully about to see a slim spacesuit start to crumple floorward in. From Wordnik.com. [The Beast of Space] Reference
The design allows for "crumple zones" in the front and rear that absorb energy during high-speed collisions. From Wordnik.com. [Japan's Mini Invasion] Reference
Then arose loud and tumultuous shouts, that made poor Larry crumple up as if he wanted to hide in a thimble. From Wordnik.com. [Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat] Reference
The wall that was aside me just simply crumbled, much the way that you would crumple a piece of looseleaf paper. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2001] Reference
Sometimes even now I go to the closet and close the doors, I crumple on the floor and for a few minutes just weep. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2002] Reference
At the same moment she had clutched the letter, and continued to crumple it in her hand with a spasmodic eagerness. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
In the first half-minute, he saw at least fifty compartmented prefabs partly crumple, as explosives tore into them. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
His ribs seemed to crumple within him -- fortunately they were elastic, as ribs no thicker than a stout hair must be. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
Or the category of people with faces and bodies so elastic that a single touch makes them crumple and sag and deflate. From Wordnik.com. [Fool's Gold On Broadway] Reference
While they looked he seemed to crumple, shrivel, and his eyes stared at them glassily out of his white mask of a face. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle Or, The Girl Miner of Gold Run] Reference
Jerry, in a glance, saw his big comrade crumple up in a heap, the whole front of his body torn away by a piece of shell. From Wordnik.com. [Ned, Bob and Jerry on the Firing Line The Motor Boys Fighting for Uncle Sam] Reference
My hand throbs with pain, and I crumple his picture, believing I can press all the pain concentrated there into his image. From Wordnik.com. [Promises] Reference
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