scrunch
Example Sentences
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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
My face would scrunch up and I’d shudder from the intense flavors, but I never cried.
From Salon • Sep. 13, 2025
A good way to check if wrapping paper is recyclable, according to Wrap, is the "scrunch test".
From BBC • Dec. 3, 2022
Small amounts of the DNA didn’t appear to affect the cells, but larger amounts caused them to scrunch up, suggesting they were responding to the stimulus.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 19, 2021
I scrunch my feet under the covers and savor that feeling—fresh linen over your feet, bunching up in little mountain ranges.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.