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 Antoinette Inglis
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 Charles Darwin
The eyebrows and lashes had disappeared; the skin, grown hard, could not unwrinkle.
From Beatrix by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
His clean-shaven face is ruddy and, excepting a divot between his eyebrows, unwrinkled.
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2023
Stephanie, still fresh and unwrinkled in her red dress, black hair smooth, sunglasses pushed up on her head, chatted in the midst of all of us, the weight of the day lifting.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2021
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 watched her drift away, drift with her pink face warm, smooth as an apple, unwrinkled and colorful.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
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
Mrs. Mutimer's face exhibited the dawning of intelligence, an unwrinkling here and there, a slight rounding of the lips.
From Demos by George Gissing
"I know," replied the girl, unwrinkling her forehead.
From Ambrotox and Limping Dick by Oliver Fleming
Roman by birth, in appearance and character, his inexhaustible Southern wit often succeeded in unwrinkling the brow of his young companion.
From The Carlovingian Coins Or The Daughters of Charlemagne. A Tale of the Ninth Century by Eugène Sue
