crimped

Example Sentences

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That I should mistake the hide of a buffaloe, scorched and crimpled as it is, for the carcass of a horse!

From The Prairie by Cooper, James Fenimore

The girl's face flamed an angry red under her crimpled thatch of hair.

From Stories of the Foot-hills by Graham, Margaret Collier

Glory stared curiously, tossed his crimpled, silver mane, dodged a second too late and found himself caught.

From The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories by Bower, B. M.

For his boy friends, he made lanterns of "crimpled paper" with a candle inside, to light them to school in the dark winter mornings, and paper kites of the best form and proportion.

From Famous Men of Science by Bolton, Sarah K.