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He avoids kissing for 24 hours before a performance and 48 hours before a competition because it makes it difficult to sustain a pucker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

These compounds, which look like rings at the molecular level, interact with proteins in your saliva to produce a dry, astringent sensation that makes your mouth pucker.

From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024

Mattel should have considered traditional pucker toe moccasins, instead of black shoes, and included symbols on the basket that Cherokees use to tell a story, she said.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2023

In other words, this complex dance between art, anatomy, and archaeology can bring the past almost to life—one eyelash, pucker, and pore at a time.

From National Geographic ● Oct. 23, 2023

Watching Ess run her tiny hands around the bed, pulling and tucking at each pucker, made Jinny smile.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder

The building alternately puckers and swells, like the indolent flexing of a muscle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

The crunchy onion gives a little sweetness while the pickle puckers in the most pleasing way to cut through all that heat.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2022

As my forehead sadly puckers, I will play them all for suckers, Yes, I'll con the rubes in Maine.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2021

He looks sidewise at the correctional officers, and when he is sure they aren’t looking, he puckers his lips to fit them through the iron grid separating him from her, and they kiss.

From The Verge ● Mar. 13, 2019

She pictured her mother finishing them with lovely, soft toe puckers so the girls’ feet could twitch and dance.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

But then, it’s hard not to smile at the playfully elegant Bosc pears, puckered mandarins and green-and-purple asparagus taper candles which range in price from $12 to $40.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

Some people love the sound of songs blown through puckered lips, or at least appreciate the effort.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

Hashtags such as #sunburntanlines, #sunpoisoning and #sunstroke are popping up alongside videos of young men and women - some in tears - revealing deep red, almost purple, often puckered skin.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2025

A few days later, Van Gaal puckered up.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2022

If we drop a small mass, the surface is deformed or puckered.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

"We had particular difficulties with hard sounds like 'B' and with sounds involving lip puckering, such as 'W'. But these abilities will likely improve with time and practice," Lipson said.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 16, 2026

These candies will have your mouth puckering — and salivating for more.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2025

In fact, she’s so dedicated to that social critique that she can’t accept any contradictory evidence, even when gorgeous male celebrity lips are puckering up right in front of her.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2023

The building — which soars some 15 stories — sits surrounded by a chain-link fence, with broken windows puckering its elongated, and rusted, rooftop cupola.

From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2022

The bottle makes a puckering sound as he squeezes a dark dollop onto the toe.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz