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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
crinkly
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The leaves turned brown and crinkly.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His crinkly hair was a glossy brown colour still unmarked by grey; his moustache was neat and trim.
▪ In his crinkly fair hair there was hardly any grey.
▪ Overnight there was a frost and it went hard and crinkly.
▪ The islands rose sheer out of a millpond sea, pillars of white limestone with ochre splotches capped in crinkly green.
▪ Uneven blotches and crinkly patches are on the leaf surface.
▪ With his receding, crinkly black hair, beaky nose, toothbrush moustache and protruding teeth, Fender came gift-wrapped for cartoonists.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crinkly

Crinkly \Crin"kly\ (-kl?), a. Having crinkles; wavy; wrinkly.

Wiktionary
crinkly

a. 1 That crinkles. 2 Having crinkles; wrinkly.

WordNet
crinkly

adj. having wrinkles or waves [syn: crinkled, rippled, wavy, wavelike]

Usage examples of "crinkly".

Older than she by but ten years to my twenty, at six-four three inches taller than I, this reptile had been blessed with a misleadingly winning Irish countenance and a full head of crinkly red-blond hair.

One letter, on crinkly tissue paper, showed that as late as the Japanese-Russian War he had been caught running coal into Port Arthur and been taken to the prize court at Sasebo, where his steamer was confiscated and he remained a prisoner until the end of the war.

He sat in the middle of his earthtone houndstooth sofa and looked like a stickman with his ankles crossed, his clasped hands between his knees, and a big smile on his crinkly face.

Bake the batches one at a time, until the cookies have puffed and flattened and have a crinkly surface, 10 to 12 minutes per batch.

Bake the batches one at a time, just until the cookies have puffed and flattened and have a crinkly surface, 9 to 12 minutes per batch.

Every time I suckled her crinkly areolae, she’d moan softly and gently kiss the top of my head.

Others, like Pan, benefit from the crinkly edges of modern holisticism - all those dopeheads dancing nude in leafy woodlands do him the power of good.

That’s when she noticed tiny blebs beneath the skin of his chest and when she pressed them with her fingers, they made tiny crinkly sounds, like bubbles in a plastic polymer.

In the north, this man told me, the trappers and loggers are great patrons of the beauty shops, and like to have their hair and beards arranged in crinkly marcels.

In front of him stood the district attorney, Ed Topper, a slight man in his forties, with crinkly salt-and-pepper hair cut en brosse, and cold, black eyes.

Bill could see that the little lizard was visibly growing, its crinkly skin stretching to accommodate the newly acquired bulk that the little reptile was putting on.

The door was answered by an elderly woman in a red mac and a crinkly plastic rain hat.

Traffic crawled on the slick streets and bicycle riders pedaled at double speed, their heads wrapped in newspaper or crinkly plastic rain hats.

Thick strands of his mother's fine, long crinkly black hair had wrapped around the entire length of the roller, filling the groove of the rubber belt and impeding its progress.

Tall, expansive, with a crinkly mat of red-blond hair and a senatorial waistline, Green swaggers through the bars, the courthouses, the public arenas of La Riviere and its surrounding communities, distributing wised-up charm.