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单词 crinkle
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Definition of crinkle in English:

crinkle

verb ˈkrɪŋk(ə)lˈkrɪŋk(ə)l
  • Form into small surface creases or wrinkles.

    no object Rose's face crinkled in bewilderment
    with object he smiled boyishly, crinkling his eyes
    Example sentencesExamples
    • When I got to the company who was interviewing me, I rolled my sleeves back down and realised I'd sweated so much the sleeves were all wet and they'd crinkled up as well.
    • Ethan offered her a broad smile that crinkled up the sides of his eyes.
    • Those on the mayor's tour who entered the building immediately came out, faces crinkled, and walked carefully to avoid stepping into pools of stinking water.
    • I handed him the paper I was clutching minutes previous; the edge on the right side was all crinkled up.
    • I still had the map he gave me lodged in my pocket, crinkled up a little.
    • He liked the cute way the edges of her eyes crinkled up when she smiled, the way her eyebrows spread and the worry lines in her forehead disappeared when she laughed.
    • His mouth crinkled up into his usual friendly smile.
    • Natalie blushed and cursed herself for noticing that his eyes crinkled adorably when he smiled.
    • He could not get her out of his head: her voice, her words, the way her bright green eyes crinkled up when she smiled, her hair, practically everything about her.
    • I watched his face as his eyes crinkled up and his deep laughter rung out over the phone.
    • The doctor's wrinkled face crinkled into a broad smile.
    • Conway's eyes crinkled up in a smile that almost reached his thin lips.
    • Her eyes crinkled in a smile but she didn't say anything.
    • Her face crinkled up in disgust, then she darted past him and into the hallway in an effort to get away from him.
    • Seersucker is a lightweight cotton fabric crinkled into lengthwise stripes.
    • There was Gwen, sitting at the table with him, a worried look on her face, forehead crinkled up in thought.
    • His eyes crinkled up the corners and made him look like a kid again.
    • Abby sighed again, this time thinking of the way his eyes crinkled up at the corners when he smiled.
    • His whole face smiled, his eyes crinkled up and his gray green eyes danced merrily.
    • He watched as the side of her face he could see was crinkled up, not sure what to say.
    Synonyms
    wrinkle, crease, pucker, furrow, line, corrugate, crimp, crumple, rumple, ruck up, scrunch up
    British rare ruckle
noun ˈkrɪŋk(ə)lˈkrɪŋk(ə)l
  • A wrinkle or crease on the surface of something.

    there was a crinkle of suspicion on her forehead
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Several crinkles appear near his eyes as he smiles, ‘You're the best, Boss.’
    • He delivered this all with a wet smile and a charming crinkle in his eye and only the veins standing out in his neck mirrored the hostility of his words.
    • It measures a person's mood by examining key features, such as the curve of the lips and the crinkles around the eyes.
    • There's barely a square inch of skin between his beard and wire-rimmed glasses, only the crinkle of laughter lines around the edges and the occasional smiling rack of slightly yellowed teeth.
    • He even wears the same moustache and has those crinkles in the corners of his blue eyes.
    • Authentication of the unknown painting included a congruity between crinkles in the paint surface of the unknown picture, and cut marks on the back of the Minneapolis Study.
    • If he has crinkles and a furrowed brow, he goes to war.
    • The region's slickrock, sandstone from long-gone seabeds, is a moonscape of crinkles and undulations that make for exhilarating riding.
    • Mia smiled, the corners of her eyes forming soft crinkles.
    • Shallows webbed with gold ripple, then draw back to expose crinkles tender as the lines a bedsheet etches on skin.
    • Family obligations always did crop up at the worst of times, Kratos thought with a crinkle of his nose.
    • Grasping the bag she felt the soft crinkle of old parchment beneath the worn cloth.
    • Pigments wrap themselves, form folds, crinkles and ridges, blur and merge like layers of fabric, and cover the canvas.
    • Do the crinkles in crinkled chips (for Americans that's fries not crisps) actually confer any difference in taste?
    • UVA rays are at their worst in summertime, constantly penetrating our epidermis, damaging our collagen and elastin fibres and creating wrinkles, crinkles, sags and bags all the more likely.
    • The crinkles and distortions virtually disappear.
    • And you can see that these crinkles in the outer layer of the brain in Alzheimer's Disease have taken on a very kind of moth-eaten appearance.
    • He shoots the boardroom scenes in dismal office-grade lighting, showing every crease and crinkle on the stressed faces within the room.
    • He smiles, and the dreaded crinkles appear near his eyes, tiny lines.
    • But he was younger than his many creases and crinkles suggested.
    Synonyms
    wrinkle, crease, fold, pucker, gather, furrow, ridge, line, corrugation, groove, crumple, rumple

Origin

Late Middle English: related to Old English crincan (see cringe).

Rhymes

besprinkle, sprinkle, tinkle, twinkle, winkle, wrinkle
 
 

Definition of crinkle in US English:

crinkle

verbˈkrɪŋk(ə)lˈkriNGk(ə)l
  • 1Form small creases or wrinkles in the surface of something, especially the skin of the face as the result of a facial expression.

    no object Rose's face crinkled in bewilderment
    his face crinkled up in a smile
    with object Burney crinkled his eyes in a smile
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Her face crinkled up in disgust, then she darted past him and into the hallway in an effort to get away from him.
    • He watched as the side of her face he could see was crinkled up, not sure what to say.
    • There was Gwen, sitting at the table with him, a worried look on her face, forehead crinkled up in thought.
    • His eyes crinkled up the corners and made him look like a kid again.
    • Natalie blushed and cursed herself for noticing that his eyes crinkled adorably when he smiled.
    • I handed him the paper I was clutching minutes previous; the edge on the right side was all crinkled up.
    • Abby sighed again, this time thinking of the way his eyes crinkled up at the corners when he smiled.
    • Ethan offered her a broad smile that crinkled up the sides of his eyes.
    • When I got to the company who was interviewing me, I rolled my sleeves back down and realised I'd sweated so much the sleeves were all wet and they'd crinkled up as well.
    • Seersucker is a lightweight cotton fabric crinkled into lengthwise stripes.
    • He liked the cute way the edges of her eyes crinkled up when she smiled, the way her eyebrows spread and the worry lines in her forehead disappeared when she laughed.
    • His whole face smiled, his eyes crinkled up and his gray green eyes danced merrily.
    • I watched his face as his eyes crinkled up and his deep laughter rung out over the phone.
    • Her eyes crinkled in a smile but she didn't say anything.
    • Those on the mayor's tour who entered the building immediately came out, faces crinkled, and walked carefully to avoid stepping into pools of stinking water.
    • I still had the map he gave me lodged in my pocket, crinkled up a little.
    • Conway's eyes crinkled up in a smile that almost reached his thin lips.
    • His mouth crinkled up into his usual friendly smile.
    • He could not get her out of his head: her voice, her words, the way her bright green eyes crinkled up when she smiled, her hair, practically everything about her.
    • The doctor's wrinkled face crinkled into a broad smile.
    Synonyms
    wrinkle, crease, pucker, furrow, line, corrugate, crimp, crumple, rumple, ruck up, scrunch up
    1. 1.1with object Cause (something) to make a crackling or rustling sound.
      we tried hard not to crinkle the plastic as we unwrapped the pies
      Example sentencesExamples
      • She pulled a large loaf from the bag, crinkling the brown paper.
      • He thrust the door open and slipped the coins into the appropriate slot and brought the phone to his ear, using his shoulder to keep it up as he dialed with one hand, the other in his pocket crinkling money.
      • The afternoon typically includes one to three bags of chips, of which I hear each foil-wrapper crinkle and crack as she reaches into the bag, then the bite of each chip.
      • He turned the page and for some reason the simple sound of the page crinkle made me want to cut off my ears.
      • He walked back out from behind the counter and put his hand back in his pocket, crinkling the paper money softly.
      • ‘This is for you,’ he said, reaching into the cargo pocket and crinkling the shrink-wrap.
      • I'm holding a piece of something in my hand right now and crinkling it.
nounˈkrɪŋk(ə)lˈkriNGk(ə)l
  • 1A wrinkle or crease on the surface of something.

    there was a crinkle of suspicion on her forehead
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Authentication of the unknown painting included a congruity between crinkles in the paint surface of the unknown picture, and cut marks on the back of the Minneapolis Study.
    • There's barely a square inch of skin between his beard and wire-rimmed glasses, only the crinkle of laughter lines around the edges and the occasional smiling rack of slightly yellowed teeth.
    • UVA rays are at their worst in summertime, constantly penetrating our epidermis, damaging our collagen and elastin fibres and creating wrinkles, crinkles, sags and bags all the more likely.
    • Pigments wrap themselves, form folds, crinkles and ridges, blur and merge like layers of fabric, and cover the canvas.
    • Several crinkles appear near his eyes as he smiles, ‘You're the best, Boss.’
    • The crinkles and distortions virtually disappear.
    • He even wears the same moustache and has those crinkles in the corners of his blue eyes.
    • The region's slickrock, sandstone from long-gone seabeds, is a moonscape of crinkles and undulations that make for exhilarating riding.
    • And you can see that these crinkles in the outer layer of the brain in Alzheimer's Disease have taken on a very kind of moth-eaten appearance.
    • He shoots the boardroom scenes in dismal office-grade lighting, showing every crease and crinkle on the stressed faces within the room.
    • Mia smiled, the corners of her eyes forming soft crinkles.
    • He smiles, and the dreaded crinkles appear near his eyes, tiny lines.
    • Shallows webbed with gold ripple, then draw back to expose crinkles tender as the lines a bedsheet etches on skin.
    • If he has crinkles and a furrowed brow, he goes to war.
    • He delivered this all with a wet smile and a charming crinkle in his eye and only the veins standing out in his neck mirrored the hostility of his words.
    • But he was younger than his many creases and crinkles suggested.
    • Family obligations always did crop up at the worst of times, Kratos thought with a crinkle of his nose.
    • Do the crinkles in crinkled chips (for Americans that's fries not crisps) actually confer any difference in taste?
    • Grasping the bag she felt the soft crinkle of old parchment beneath the worn cloth.
    • It measures a person's mood by examining key features, such as the curve of the lips and the crinkles around the eyes.
    Synonyms
    wrinkle, crease, fold, pucker, gather, furrow, ridge, line, corrugation, groove, crumple, rumple
    1. 1.1 The sound of crinkling.
      I heard the crinkle of clothing

Origin

Late Middle English: related to Old English crincan (see cringe).

 
 
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