pucker
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He avoids kissing for 24 hours before a performance and 48 hours before a competition because it makes it difficult to sustain a pucker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
The kind that makes your mouth pucker and your tongue go numb from all the acids decimating your taste buds.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2025
Mattel should have considered traditional pucker toe moccasins, instead of black shoes, and included symbols on the basket that Cherokees use to tell a story, she said.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
In other words, this complex dance between art, anatomy, and archaeology can bring the past almost to life—one eyelash, pucker, and pore at a time.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 23, 2023
We head next door to the Asian grocery store for a bag of shrimp chips to share—delicious, crispy, salty, French fry-looking crackers that make my mouth pucker.
From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio
The building alternately puckers and swells, like the indolent flexing of a muscle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Fattoush is one of the bright, simple joys of summer: Tomatoes spill sunshine, pita shards and cucumbers take turns showing off their snap, sumac puckers, and mint and parsley cool, often, in a single bite.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2022
The crunchy onion gives a little sweetness while the pickle puckers in the most pleasing way to cut through all that heat.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2022
As my forehead sadly puckers, I will play them all for suckers, Yes, I'll con the rubes in Maine.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2021
He puckers his lips and makes a kissing sound.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
Some people love the sound of songs blown through puckered lips, or at least appreciate the effort.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
Hashtags such as #sunburntanlines, #sunpoisoning and #sunstroke are popping up alongside videos of young men and women - some in tears - revealing deep red, almost purple, often puckered skin.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2025
Unscrewing the cap on a tube of mauve goo and giving it a generous swipe across puckered lips.
From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2023
It’s puckered with what looks like bright red mouths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2023
On his back below the hump, four blowholes puckered for air.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
"We had particular difficulties with hard sounds like 'B' and with sounds involving lip puckering, such as 'W'. But these abilities will likely improve with time and practice," Lipson said.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 16, 2026
Nobel’s Super Lemon Sour Candy will surely have your mouth watering and puckering.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2025
“They’re the Sour Patch Kids of chips,” said one puckering colleague.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2022
The building — which soars some 15 stories — sits surrounded by a chain-link fence, with broken windows puckering its elongated, and rusted, rooftop cupola.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2022
Not only the teacher and the boys; also missing were the furniture and fixtures, and there were long winding gashes puckering the walls where someone had ripped out the wiring.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
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