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Usage examples of crumple.

Boldly I performed the chasse en avant and chasse en arriere glissade, until, when it came to my turn to move towards her and I, with a comic gesture, showed her the poor glove with its crumpled fingers, she laughed heartily, and seemed to move her tiny feet more enchantingly than ever over the parquetted floor.

The lanky man crumpled to the floor like a kid, breaking into sobs, his face in his arms, his back in a fetal curl.

He slashed open the one on his left and caught the other with his backswing, and the two began to crumple to the ground together.

One of the baggagemasters, an elderly sergeant who had been through World War I, remained on the ground, crumpled up with his hands pressed hard into his guts.

McWhirter was grinning and verbose as he walked bouncily from one working party to another, his crumpled jacket flapping.

And as the Xcab crumples under her impact, she can see the other cabs wandering lost for a second as the hive-map adjusts to the loss.

It had been recently occupied, but there was still unopened cans in the kitchen, and still crumpled sheets on the bed.

Given the stress of the dementia work-up, every organ system crumpled: in a domino progression the injection of radioactive dye for her brain scan shut down her kidneys, and the dye study of her kidneys overloaded her heart, and the medication for her heart made her vomit, which altered her electrolyte balance in a life-threatening way, which increased her dementia and shut down her bowel, which made her eligible for the bowel run, the cleanout for which dehydrated her and really shut down her tormented kidneys, which led to infection, the need for dialysis, and big-time complications of these big-time diseases.

In its flickering light they could all see three flyblown bodies crumpled against the wall, rocks scattered around them.

Graham got a glimpse over the heads of the surging crowd, saw two crumpled gyrocars which appeared to have met in head-on collision.

Tossing the crumpled headrail aside, she stood and moved in front of him.

The Nobel laureate crumpled old newspapernot much in the way of new newspaper around these daysand padded the box with it.

Rupert Juneau crumpled forward onto the rock, his weapon plunging down the side of the mountain.

The outer corolla is much shorter, crumpled, rolled back, and somewhat marked with green, as if intermediate in its nature between the larger corolla and the calyx.

Headless, blinded, the imp staggered, stepped back, piled up questing lemures against the back of its knees, and crumpled atop them.