crumple

Example Sentences

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To wrap a basketball, for example, you’d need to crumple the paper in a horrible mess or cut many pieces and tape them together with unsightly overlaps.

From Slate • Jan. 21, 2026

His adversaries think he’ll crumple like yesterday’s broadsheet when they turn him away, and are perturbed to realize he’s more like the human equivalent of tissue hanging onto the heel of a shoe.

From Salon • Sep. 23, 2025

Yael and Shachar, at just 11 and 9, have seen such horrors that their small faces crumple into tears again and again.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2023

Materials designed to crumple or deform in a crash to protect pedestrians or passengers, for example, can be hard or impossible to repair.

From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2023

I never understood how the Senor managed to convey a sense of dignity, majesty even, considering his stick-rickety, see-through skeleton and the ridiculous, leathery crumple of hide about his foot, his fallen britches.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli