pucker

He avoids kissing for 24 hours before a performance and 48 hours before a competition because it makes it difficult to sustain a pucker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

The kind that makes your mouth pucker and your tongue go numb from all the acids decimating your taste buds.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2025

Mattel should have considered traditional pucker toe moccasins, instead of black shoes, and included symbols on the basket that Cherokees use to tell a story, she said.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2023

In other words, this complex dance between art, anatomy, and archaeology can bring the past almost to life—one eyelash, pucker, and pore at a time.

From National Geographic ● Oct. 23, 2023

Her lips pucker and stretch, pucker and stretch.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

The building alternately puckers and swells, like the indolent flexing of a muscle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Fattoush is one of the bright, simple joys of summer: Tomatoes spill sunshine, pita shards and cucumbers take turns showing off their snap, sumac puckers, and mint and parsley cool, often, in a single bite.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2022

The crunchy onion gives a little sweetness while the pickle puckers in the most pleasing way to cut through all that heat.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2022

Bose says it has refined the design in subtle ways: according to the company, “pleats and puckers have been removed from soft materials, and gaps between components have been replaced with smooth transitions.”

From The Verge ● Aug. 31, 2021

Mary’s mouth puckers, and she gives me a hard look.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

The seams in the seat jackets of our tester were puckered and imperfect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

Hashtags such as #sunburntanlines, #sunpoisoning and #sunstroke are popping up alongside videos of young men and women - some in tears - revealing deep red, almost purple, often puckered skin.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2025

Unscrewing the cap on a tube of mauve goo and giving it a generous swipe across puckered lips.

From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2023

Nandina domestica ‘Firepower’ is a compact form of heavenly bamboo that forms a mounded 2-by-2-foot tuffet of slightly puckered evergreen foliage.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 31, 2022

As soon as our gazes met, her mouth puckered as if she had swallowed a spoonful of horseradish.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

"We had particular difficulties with hard sounds like 'B' and with sounds involving lip puckering, such as 'W'. But these abilities will likely improve with time and practice," Lipson said.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 16, 2026

But those who are familiar with and enjoy Robinson’s puckering brand of cringe are probably up for the challenge — which it is, in the best way.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2025

Beyond the gross-out close-ups of puckering organs, what is most striking here is a rare cinematic quality nowadays: perversity.

From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2022

“They’re the Sour Patch Kids of chips,” said one puckering colleague.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2022

Lena smooshed his cheeks with both hands, puckering his mouth.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack