scrunches

His face scrunches like he swallowed a lemon.

“Emily scrunches herself up in the top half, with her legs tucked tight to her chest,” says Tim, his voice shaky.

Horse manure plops onto the asphalt, and no one blinks or scrunches their nose.

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

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