crumple
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They were at work when the quakes struck, causing high-rise apartment buildings, shopping centers and schools to crumple.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
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
Even if voters crumple up and toss the congressional maps Yee and others drafted, none felt as though their labors were wasted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2025
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
“I mean to say,” Gherland said, feeling himself crumple and burn, like paper.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
If people and institutions and businesses and government stand up to him, he crumples.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2026
Bynum keeps the camera on her as Jessie crumples her face in her hands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025
His forehead crumples as he does so and his big hands shake.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2023
The situation is akin to a car that crumples in a crash: the vehicle absorbs the impact to protect passengers, but it is totaled.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 22, 2023
The hope that had been building inside me crumples and I collapse onto my pillow.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
I didn’t feel any affinity with the humanoid that smashed Bolt’s 100-meter record, but found the robot weightlifter that crumpled under a 15kg barbell and staggered into a table very relatable.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
The look on Joe’s face when we first meet him says a lot about his crumpled ambitions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
On Tuesday morning, rescuers at the ruins of what had been a neighbourhood grocery, resumed efforts to recover two store employees who were inside when the building crumpled.
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
Large, irregular, corpuscular clouds made of crumpled paper hung over the stage.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
Masterji Thakur crumpled the paper and slipped it into her pocket before falling to the ground.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
Videos posted to social media and verified by AFP on Monday showed the catastrophic collapse of a shopping centre in General Santos, and an unoccupied school building crumpling.
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
Whether he was laughing, brooding or crumpling into sobs to create one of the most well-known and widely circulated meme GIFs of all time, Van Der Beek’s expressive appeal propelled him to virtually overnight superstardom.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2026
"But when we reached the clinic, we saw that it was closed. I didn't know it had shut down," he said, his face crumpling with agony.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2025
They belt with the conviction of Broadway stars, some crumpling from the emotional catharsis.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2024
I imagined the force of it crumpling the metal husk of Cade Hernandez’s pickup.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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