Wrinkling

"Wrinkling" in a Sentence (6 examples)

"Do you think this salmon's still all right to eat, Tom?" asked Mary. Tom regarded the fillet slices on the plate with suspicion, wrinkling his nose when he encountered a particular smell. "Best throw it away," he replied, doing so immediately.

"Does a bigger brain mean being smarter, Arnie?" "Neurologists know that the amount of folding or wrinkling on the brain matters more than the mere size of it, Matt." "Yeah, many people have the wrong idea..."

The new generation of coffee drinkers, many of them young, black and upwardly mobile, are wrinkling their noses at wan, syrupy swill and asking for chic, pared-down concoctions with single-origin, fair-trade beans.

To address wrinkling below eye level, plastic surgeons turn to fillers, including tiny plastic beads, liquid silicone, and collagen from cows and even humans to plump up the grooves in one's skin.

The character of these wrinklings, when seen on the flat of the beds, forbids the idea that they are due to end on compression[…]

Would she be able to appreciate the subtlety of their advances, if they made any; those little twitches and twists of the lips, those narrowings and rollings of the eye, those wrinklings of the speculative temple, that shrugging of an eyebrow at play?

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