crinkly
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Lay’s is redoing the bags too, ditching the crinkly sheen for a heavier, matte finish emblazoned with pictures of potatoes and chips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
Although I know plastic is a problem, something still feels friendly about the bright-colored toothpaste tube, the crinkly bag of pasta.
From Slate ● May 28, 2025
It's actually a painted veneer, presumably because there was not a piece of foil large enough, lest a run on crinkly silver lead to stale sarnies.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2025
“Your hair, soft and crinkly / Your body, strong and stately,” Flack sings against a laidback groove, “You don’t have to search and roam / ’Cause I got your love at home.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2025
The crinkly paper holds a bright blue shalwar kameez with a tiny purple paisley pattern and gold buttons.
From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan
The ferocious beauty has mellowed into a gentler, crinklier handsomeness.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 30, 2019
I left Arabella smiling triumphantly through her tears, but when I returned in the evening the breakfast-time frown had reappeared with even crinklier ramifications.
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 8, 1914 by Various
No," answered Henry, "but it's getting crinklier and crinklier and she looks pinker and pinker, and prettier and prettier, and you ought to see her in her new purple sweater.
From The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by William Allen White
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