crumple

Example Sentences

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Footage from the scene just moments after the incident shows a dark-coloured Chevrolet hatchback, its front crumpled and windscreen cracked, at a standstill on a zebra crossing between Kiah Street and Agrippas Street.

From BBC

A quality scene sure to impress finds Galen on horseback riding out of a crumpling castle wall to an open green field with mountains in the background.

From Washington Times

The pitcher then crumpled to the grass, and the Twins training staff rushed out to help him.

From Seattle Times

If dropped on a city like Washington, D.C., it would instantly vaporize an area more than 2.5 kilometers across while crumpling buildings much farther out with its radioactive blast.

From Science Magazine

The Mariners got a bit of a scare when Suarez took a 91-mph fastball off the point of his elbow and crumpled to the ground in pain.

From Seattle Times