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

Rot and death would spread through their venerable trunks and crumple their limbs — but their roots and stumps, cradled by the continent’s most ancient mountains, lived on in the sandy, acidic Appalachian soil.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2023

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

Emergency alert systems that crumple when needed most.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2023

You might as well just crumple up the world I know and throw it away.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness