unwrinkle
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Theory’s new pants promise to repel water and dirt, wick away perspiration, quickly unwrinkle, stretch for comfort and cool the wearer down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2016
San Francisco's family-owned Levi Strauss & Co., the behemoth of blue jeans, has a new wrinkle-or, rather, an unwrinkle.
From Time Magazine Archive
The April rain-drops tinkle In cuckoo-cups of gold, And warm south winds unwrinkle The buds the peach-boughs hold.
From Child Songs of Cheer by Inglis, Antoinette
The eyebrows and lashes had disappeared; the skin, grown hard, could not unwrinkle.
From Beatrix by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
Hence the Latin phrase, exporrigere frontem— to unwrinkle the brow—means, to be cheerful or merry.
From The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Darwin, Charles
The good news is that doctors are no longer serving up the “Botox-face” — think, eyebrows frozen in perpetual surprise, foreheads unwrinkled but not exactly youthful.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2022
Yet all three are shown with unwrinkled faces, smooth hands, and firm necks.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2020
They’re unwrinkled young men who began this decade playing football together for that 326-year-old football coaching conservatory, William & Mary.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 10, 2019
Many studies have focused on the goal of keeping skin looking youthful — plump, dewy, firm and unwrinkled.
From Nature ● Nov. 20, 2018
He had deep blue eyes with large pupils and an unwrinkled face.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
When you pass out, you become cut off from your experience and the return feels like an unwrinkling of the senses.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2022
In his office, at home and on his travels, Mr. Bratton keeps with him a steamer for instant unwrinkling, Mr. Miller said.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2016
"I know," replied the girl, unwrinkling her forehead.
From Ambrotox and Limping Dick by Fleming, Oliver
Gingerly she lifted the cover and drew out two slips of paper folded, then unwrinkling them on her knee she looked down and gasped, while a wave of brighter crimson swept over her face.
From Peggy Parsons at Prep School by Sharp, Annabel
Hedwig regarded her puzzled, till her brow unwrinkling at last, she exclaimed: "Upon my word, I believe you have fallen in love with master."
From The Son of Clemenceau by Dumas fils, Alexandre
