scrunch

You cook them really quickly in a pan with butter and then scrunch them, which allows for the maple-soy butter to pool in all the little pockets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

We watched its robot slowly but smoothly make a coffee, scrunch up some socks and clear a table of perilously fragile wine glasses.

From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2026

In signature Smith style, her light-wash jeans scrunch just above a pair of tan, heeled boots.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025

My face would scrunch up and I’d shudder from the intense flavors, but I never cried.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2025

He had just turned off the DS and put it back into his pocket when he heard the scrunch of gravel behind him that told him he was no longer alone.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz

He seems unafraid to be a little silly and puffs out his cheeks or scrunches up his face to entertain the babies.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2023

When a visible star is tugged by the gravity of an unseen companion, the motion to and from Earth stretches and scrunches the light.

From Science Magazine ● Jul. 17, 2022

It scrunches its cheeks, raises its eyebrows, and then grimaces and blinks.

From The Verge ● May 4, 2022

She has a big smile and bigger eyes that she widens or scrunches or closes when she laughs, which is often.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2021

Poppet scrunches up her face while she thinks.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

The footwell was noticeably narrow even for me at 5’6” so someone taller would feel scrunched when fully stretched out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

His face scrunched as a breeze that smelled like vomit hit us.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Manage your draughts by putting a black bag with scrunched up paper up an unused chimney, or try limiting other draughts around the home.

From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2025

When ISA President Fernando Aguerre informed Aguirre on Friday that she had qualified, her face scrunched up on camera as she started to cry.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2024

I scrunched the pillow over my head and let the sobs out.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

When Jimmy is passionately advocating for something and Kayla is in the same frame, she’s often gesticulating, scrunching up her face or emitting noises like “pffffft.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Her habit of scrunching her nose effectively mocked masculine self-importance, and in not much more than a minute, she showed what she had spoken about earlier: how a classical art survives.

From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2021

At Y/Project, Glenn Marten continued to rework the classics – twisting a trench and scrunching its form with the aid of a wired hem.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 28, 2021

Scared and grieving, living in a grim and hopeless world, what’s to stop a reality-altering super being from waving her hands, scrunching her nose, and dropping into the seemingly safe confines of a 1950s sitcom?

From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2021

Outside his aunt’s condo complex, Mim activated the door to the car, and as it whirred open, Maya-Jade bundled the boy into a hug, scrunching his face into her ponytail.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman