单词 | wrinkle |
例句 | In the produce section in the bottom of the bins they found a few ancient runner beans and what looked to have once been apricots, long dried to wrinkled effigies of themselves. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Kapu wrinkled his brow and turned an ear to tune in more acutely on her voice. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The young mouse wrinkled his nose in disgust. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The clothes I’d spent so much time picking out were wrinkled and covered in dust, and strands of my hair had escaped my ponytail and curled out in a thin frizz halo. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Lapp read the note, scanned it again, then wrinkled his upper lip, squinched his nose until the bridge was thoroughly grooved, and weighted down his entire prissy face with a formidable, puzzled frown. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl is kept longer, but she too is dismissed, her forehead wrinkled in confusion. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In fact, when I offer him groosling, he wrinkles his nose at it and turns away. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Pong watched the monk—who had aged now, into the wrinkled version that he remembered so well—as he blessed a little girl. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z She looked at her younger sister whose very wrinkles were fine. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “How about that? Can you live with it?” she asks me, wrinkling her nose as if it’s barely worth considering. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z “Oh, my God. Who can imagine how wrinkled and loathsome those two really are? I think I'm getting nauseated. Can’t someone in the projection booth turn off the electricity? Please!” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandma’s face was slightly wrinkled but still looked like Dad’s around the eyes. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I looked at him abstractedly, seeing how the light caught on his wrinkled forehead, his snowy hair. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z His wrinkled face, his relaxed and swinging arms. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The lines and wrinkles seemed to smooth out on Nana’s face as she recalled the memory. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z At my old school, teachers were either really old with wrinkles and graying hair or else young with ponytails and, sometimes, pimples. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Dad walks away from the ticket counter, his face scrunched into tight wrinkles, then, without warning, he smashes his fist into the wall right next to where I’m sitting. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Pressure ridges reared up like wrinkles in a huge white blanket. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “I smelled the blood,” I said, wrinkling my nose. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I wrinkle my face as mean as I can and pull my lips across my teeth and yell: “You and your axe better get out a my way. ” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Still, with her little vein-lined nose all wrinkled up, I sort of wish I wasn’t wearing my armband right now. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Her wrinkles tighten around her old eyes, her squint shifting into a glare. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z She could only focus on his face as it wrinkled and withered in front of her eyes, his skin collapsing like the petals of a lily drooping at the end of the day. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z There’s a wrinkled hand in the window next door. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He was also wrinkled as a prune and ready for a break. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z I suddenly liked the way all the wrinkles in her face crinkled up in tiny smiles. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Impishly, he wrinkled his nose and thrust his tongue into his cheek, making the funny face that Claire had taught him. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He was smiling, as always, his hands clasped in his lap, his dark school uniform without a wrinkle. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “Your hair is white and your face all wrinkled.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why, you got the best manners I ever see. You always dress up nice. Your clothes never got wrinkles—and you don’t slurp soup.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Lyra pushed back her hood to be cooler, but she couldn’t help wrinkling her nose. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Looking at Alys, wrinkled and bent, it was hard to imagine her as a willful, wild girl. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In this fluorescent lighting, the blemishes and wrinkles in his brown skin look more obvious than usual. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The wrinkles across her forehead are deeper than they used to be. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z He saw a brown, weathered face etched by deep wrinkles. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look at the way he behaves as if anything you touch starts smelling like perfume. He really likes you,” Aunty Uju said, and then, face wrinkling, she added, “And even with your hair like that.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The mouth was askew too, and the voice came out of the part farthest away from the withered, wrinkled, lifeless side. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But I am surprised myself by what’s in these stories, of separate colored refrigerators at the governor’s mansion, of white women throwing two-year-old fits over wrinkled napkins, white babies calling Aibileen “Mama.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Her red lips are purple and dry, her cheeks are sunken, there are deep shadows under her eyes, her porcelain white skin is brown and wrinkled from the sun. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He discovered that more complex tasks not only took more time, they introduced a new wrinkle: more error. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z She gave a narrowed eye to the crow, wrinkling her lips into a frown. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Mother wrinkles her brows, thinking, pausing, then rings the buzzer again. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He’s so close I could run my fingers through his shiny, tangly brown hair, run them across the faint spidery wrinkles that fan out at his temples, across the dark worrying shadows beneath. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z La Llorona’s gaunt face shriveled up like a pale raisin, becoming sallow and ashen, creased by centuries of wrinkles and dark blotches. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z She was afraid of wrinkling it, but she did not know where else to hide it. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z A leathery wrinkle parted to reveal a liquid glint of elephant eye. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Under the wrinkles and white hair is my brother. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The man was older, with more wrinkles and less hair. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He lays the wrinkled baby-blue scrap of paper on the counter and asks our question. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z “A new wrinkle. I never seen it before.” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Go run some heat over them clothes and knock them wrinkles out before people think I ain’t trained you. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Dark skin and white hair, the broken nose, the wrinkles at the comers of his eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Next came my shirt, swatting it out of the tight ball it had been in for the previous five days, the wrinkles deep and seemingly permanent. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Her wrinkled face mirrored the emotions on the screen as he translated ER, The Price Is Right, and Oprah for her, which helped improve his English. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z He had a kind face, tan and wrinkled around his eyes. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Only her hands had really aged, the palms and fingerpads shining and tight, the backs wrinkled and splotched with brown. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Kapu sat down and watched with wrinkled forehead as she scooped the meat into the pot. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In twenty-something years, she would be lined and wrinkled, as ugly as the Boss, an outcast. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The woman's hair was white as snow, her skin was wrinkled, and one eye was blind. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z I was in the cave again, and his horrible smile was snaking up his wrinkled cheek and his eye was once more half-closed. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Standing near him, I could see how wrinkled his face and brow were. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “Cooler than your bloody nose rag?” she asked, and wrinkled up her face. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Lie down next to him, a wrinkle in the sheet, and contemplate his pain and by doing so ease it, diminish it. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The man was wrinkled, and his eyes, though piercing in their unusual lightness, seemed tired. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z She picked up the apron and studied it for wrinkles. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The old woman, wrinkled, dirty, clothed in an ill-sewn sack of sealskin, pointed at the little silken dress and at herself, and smiled: a sweet, unmeaning smile, like a baby’s. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Down the embankment they swayed and there it was, a plain, homely little house, barn-red, and below it the last of the sun flashing on the wrinkled surface of a tiny lake. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Her face was wrinkled up, and she leaned in to the assistant principal. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z This wasn’t too difficult, as the younger boys took one look at the shiny, wrinkled gray sacs and turned away in horror; you couldn’t have paid them to put one in their mouths. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The old man smiled, creasing his already wrinkled face. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Right before their eyes, Brahmasura’s skin began to wrinkle and sag. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Pa grins at me, his round face wrinkles around his mouth and eyes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was calm, like my father, so it was unusual to see his forehead wrinkled that way. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z He was more wrinkled than he had been the last time she had seen him. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z During the wait her skin had become wrinkled, her breasts had withered, the coals of her heart had gone out. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Mr. Patterson’s brow wrinkled like he was thinking carefully about his answer. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z “Did you fall into some toxic sludge?” she asked, wrinkling her nose. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Grandma answered the door—an old-fashioned, wrinkled black woman, with fuzzy gray hair. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Her face bent into the single wrinkle of the small white neck. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The golden tiger prowled out of the wall, her muzzle wrinkled in a snarl. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Bubble, bubble, boils and stubble, wrinkles triple, gray hairs double,” Seven said and Valley repeated perfectly as Seven handed the mirror over to her. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z He was a tiny thing, wrinkled and hairless, shrunken beneath the weight of a hundred years so his maester's collar with its links of many metals hung loose about his throat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z When I glanced at Peach, the ancient lines and wrinkles on his face had smoothed out. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z As time went on his smile began to resemble the ferryman’s, was almost equally radiant, almost equally full of happiness, equally lighting up through a thousand little wrinkles, equally childish, equally senile. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z His frame had withered, wrinkled skin hung off his face, his hair stuck out in brittle clumps, and he'd lost his top front teeth. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z His shirt was dirty and the stolen clothes were wrinkled and soiled from having been slept in for a week. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They were puffy, wrinkled, and white as dough, as if they’d been soaking in formaldehyde for a few centuries. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I give you a dollar, and he looks in his pocket for wrinkled money. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z She is tall and slender, with just a few wrinkles in her face and not one in her clothes. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It was a lovely thing to do, though such flowers always looked rather wrinkled and hurt for a day or so. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z I pick it up and finger the wrinkled pages, flip to the story on the Soviet Space Girl. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She gives me a disapproving look, and her nose wrinkles up. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Her brown skin wrinkles toward her nose like cracked bark on a tree. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z His long, clean, yellow teeth appeared and disappeared in a yellow face all webbed, though he was not an old man, with fine, soft wrinkles. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Strips of cracked paint wrinkled away from the walls, like insects clinging to a nest. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z He was short and stooped, but his face smiled at me through his wrinkles. “—you need shoes.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They were just made of synthetic material that never wrinkled. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z A woman in a wrinkled gray sari turned away from the stove and looked at us. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z His eyes danced, and a smile cracked his old, wrinkled face like an egg. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The remaining pages were wrinkled and stained from water damage. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z He puts his hands on his hips and his nose wrinkles up. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, just as the music, slow and smoky, loads up the air, his smile bright as ever, he wrinkles his nose and turns away. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Beads of sweat dotted his bald, wrinkled head. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z My clothes were wrinkled even though we owned a laundry. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Abuela exhaled slowly and deeply, wrinkling her face like she knew my mind was full of crazy thoughts. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She paused, her delicate nose wrinkling itself in distaste. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z A button-down shirt without a single wrinkle and black pants with a sharp crease. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Taryn emerged from her locker with a wrinkled red folder clutched in her hand. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She had neither iron nor clothes but did not stop her fastidious lining up of pleats or pressing out of wrinkles even when she acknowledged Nel’s greeting. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Now I will not have to see her wrinkled face or hear her poisonous mouth for a while. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z First there was Johnny in green wrinkled salt-stiff pants, an undershirt full of big holes, a derby hat and a disorderly mustache. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She was always saying stuff like, “If the public only knew what the government was up to, there would be a revolution!” and pumping her spotted, wrinkled fist in the air. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z It hurt more than crying, wrinkling my mouth up like that. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z If Jerome had told the truth, and fiends had pink eyes and pale skin and evil, wrinkled hearts, then these men and women surrounding William now were, without any question, fiends. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z His mouth is expressionless, but in the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, Werner can see despair. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He wasn’t grinning in that way that made the corners of his eyes wrinkle up. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The boy’s mind grew more receptive, the Whisperer’s wrinkled messages straightened, and Mr. Curtain had at last settled into some real, productive work. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Adding yet another wrinkle, Cingular and AT&T had recently merged. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Her shalwar kameez is wrinkled, with smudges of turmeric dotting the hem. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Ma Charles had her own peculiarities and didn’t sleep on wrinkled sheets. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z His eyes look like black pits, and he wears a smirk that spreads too wide across his face, forcing wrinkles into his cheeks. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z I shook him, gently, then roughly, but still no flicker of his wrinkled lids. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z My grandmother does and is very very careful not to wrinkle or soil them. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Alex watches his small smile, the way it wrinkles the corners of his eyes, and very deliberately does not kiss it. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “The other team’s penalty gives you a wrinkle in time.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z This suggested that as the molten Earth had cooled, it had become wrinkled in the manner of a baked apple, creating ocean basins and mountain ranges. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z His face was a little wrinkled now and he was much skinnier than when I had last seen him. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z His eyes were brown and gentle, and deep wrinkles spread from their outside corners like tiny furrows. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z But he couldn’t bring himself to wrinkle his shirt by rolling up the sleeves. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z The river here was bordered with clumps of wrinkled rock that seemed to grow out of the ground like fungus. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I poked at it with a toe, nose wrinkling at its faint scent of stale cigarette smoke. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Squeeze up your wrinkled face and seize the hangnail tip of a searing thought: Violence hacked this shack-filled hole in the woods where you play freedom games. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z She was as wrinkled as a dhobi’s thumb from being in water for too long. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Otherwise they looked exactly like Mrs. Dodds—same gnarled hands, paisley handbags, wrinkled velvet dresses. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He had dark curly hair and a black mustache and black eyebrows that moved up and down or wrinkled as if they had a life all their own. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z She wrinkles her nose and shakes her head. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The skin on the cowboy’s face was wrinkled; it had been rubbed dry and red by the wind and sun. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t like the way you talk, old man. Why don’t I carve a few more wrinkles in your face?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z How wrinkled all the clothes were going to get! Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “I went to go see Susan Thomas,” I said, but hearing the name only made Grandma wrinkle her eyebrows in confusion. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z The dim, dining-room light had rubbed the wrinkles off her face, leaving it looking—in a strange, sunken way—younger. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Opening my eyes, I looked down at my hands and saw each dark pore, each black wrinkle in the hairless flesh. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt a pinch inside me and couldn't stop myself from imagining her flesh covered in wrinkles, her heart slowing. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Her skin is a patchwork of colors—gray, white, beige—and wrinkled like a paper sack. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z His eyes narrowing, his forehead wrinkling as he tries to see and comprehend. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z His face was coffee-colored and cross-hatched with a million tiny wrinkles, and his lower lids showed red rims like a bloodhound’s eyes. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The forest was full of shapes and shadows and only barely could he see the faint footprints on the ground — it was like searching for a wrinkle in a flower petal. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z The man pinched the top of his nose and wrinkled his brow. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He twined his fingers through mine, his forehead wrinkling in a grimace. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z When he looked up again, fear showed in every wrinkle of his face. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Her hands turned wrinkled and dry, despite being in the middle of a fountain. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z His face was leathery and wrinkled, his hands gnarled as old roots. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But I couldn’t stand the thought of Miss LaVole’s wrinkled hands on my body, smelling of coffee and mothballs. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Right there, from her perch on her rollator, Aunt Nancy cups her wrinkled hands around her wrinkled mouth. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The creature eyeing them had the face and torso of an old, bare-chested man, complete with thinning gray hair and wrinkles etched deep into his features. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The wrinkles in her face turned into smile lines. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The Object’s forehead wrinkled and her eyes grew soft in appeal. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Ma's eyes and lips squeeze into a mass of wrinkles around her nose. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She wrinkled her nose and pushed the crib over to the changing area. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Every time they had passed in the hall, she had tensed visibly, wrinkling her nose as though he’d carried a terrible stench with him. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Blanche’s face had the plumpness of adolescence, but in the flickering firelight of the great hall, wrinkles collected at her eyes and lips. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The entire effect would be surreal except the clothes are ridiculously wrinkled. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z The mouth, twisting up at one corner, the nose and forehead wrinkled in distaste. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z His tie was loose and his shirt was wrinkled. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The leather had grown scratched and wrinkled, but they were very comfortable and still pretty. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I could tell by the wrinkled brow and whiny tone that he was bothered by the fact that Fiona was doing my makeup. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z And all the lines in her face, the flabbiness, the wrinkles. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Through the steam of my soup, I watch her wrinkle her eyebrows in response, looking uncertain. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Once dressed, I faced the rather dead mouse and wrinkled my nose. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m fine. Don’t wrinkle your forehead like that, Eugenia. It’s not good for your complexion.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Through her window she could see the last wrinkled leaves gripping the branches of the ancient red maple, refusing to drift down to the ground until absolutely necessary. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Only a few feet away a woman was sitting watching her, a very old woman with short-cropped white hair and faded, almost colorless eyes set deep in an incredibly wrinkled face. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “Take off your uniform before it gets wrinkled.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z She turns to fuss with the dress and make sure it doesn't get a single wrinkle while draped across the bed. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z His scar might as well have been a wrinkle, and his thin smile a seam. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z His uniform was clean but wrinkled, and the dark circles under his eyes looked like they covered most of his face now. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I can see the wrinkles under Aunt Lydia’s eyes, the pallor of the seated women, the hairs on the rope in front of me on the grass, the blades of grass. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He thrust his tongue into his cheek, wrinkled his nose and creased his forehead. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Her wrinkled black face wrinkles even more when she concentrates. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z His clean-shaved face was leathery too, with wrinkles at the comers of his eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Gum Baby started jumping up and down as well, and I wrinkled my forehead at her. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Eyes bloodshot, face wrinkled in anger, breathing heavily—to Thomas, he suddenly looked evil. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Ben wrinkles his nose, and it’s so cute, it makes my heart flip. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Foremole smiled, his whole face almost vanishing into dark velvet wrinkles. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Their faces wrinkled in confusion, and they did more urgent whispering back and forth to one another. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The ink is barely visible, and the words are wrinkled. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The wrinkles in her face were arranged into something that resembled a smile. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z I didn't even know that jeans could wrinkle. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z The rain was running down the wrinkles in her face like they was streambeds. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Antain’s mother stood in the doorway of the workshop late one morning, her nostrils wrinkling from the sawdust and the sharp smell of Zirin hip oil, which gave the wood its particular sheen. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Then he thrust his tongue into his cheek and made their secret funny face with its creased forehead and wrinkled nose. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z They were loose in the bag and wrinkled; a few were marked with crayons. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z A small wrinkle of concern marred her usually placid forehead. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The one he kept was black, which seemed to hide some of the inevitable wrinkles that came with travel, so he could arrive at his destination looking somewhat presentable. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z His chin was granite and there was no wrinkle on his tunic. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Patterson was sitting on the porch, in a pair of pants with no wrinkles and a collared shirt. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The captain is full of weatherworn wrinkles from a lifetime at sea—although his dark, tangled beard hides many of them. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Every inch of her, even her wrists and ankles, were wrinkled. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z For one thing, he was older than anyone Pong had ever seen—even his ears were wrinkled. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z He led them to an old, rotten stump on which a large white fungus was growing—a rounded, convoluted mass of creamy folds and wrinkles. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In this new space, I had time to aim squarely between the man’s eyes, watching his muscles contort and his skin wrinkle. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z But what if she wrinkled it when she slept? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He set up new hybrid crosses—tall with short; yellow with green; wrinkled with smooth. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Grandma Rose wrinkles her nose at my Indian outfit. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He was carrying the fighting harness, which was strapped up in apple-pie order according to his own dodges and wrinkles—for, from now on, he was Lancelot’s squire. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z His skin was dark and wrinkled, his cropped hair nearly white. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He tapped the wrinkle between her brows with his thumb. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Papa was standing in the front yard, near an orange tree, screaming at a wrinkled old man in a tom white singlet and a wrapper wound round his waist. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He took out the bottle of whiskey while they removed their soiled, wrinkled jackets. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I was wearing my school uniform pants, my belt, unbuckled and twisted halfway around to my back, and a wrinkled T-shirt. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z There, a wrinkled old man was waiting for us with a yellow-and-black taxicab. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The skin between Declaration’s eyebrows wrinkled up—she looked like she was thinking about what she wanted to say next but couldn’t quite come up with it. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z There were old prospectors, their faces wrinkled and brown from the sun, like dried-up apples. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z But she could see his delicate, wrinkled hands, skillfully tying the figures in his lap together with a red thread. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z After cutting the dragon free, Minli’s knife was dull and the skin on her fingers and toes was wrinkled from having been in the dragon’s lake of tears for so long. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z "Very much like Paris," Brett smiled at him, wrinkling the corners of her eyes. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “It’s bad news if that’s all it takes for them to ID us,” Chubs said, rubbing a hand over his forehead and smoothing out the wrinkles there. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z What struck me most about their faces was that I couldn’t see their eyes, just a faint glimmer in a nest of wrinkles. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Edith is small and thin, proportioned like a girl, her white hair cut in a bob and her face deeply wrinkled. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She studied me with suspicion, her eyes hard in their wrinkles. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the gauze rippled as if a hand had passed across it from the other side, and in one place it wrinkled into a wad as if somebody had snagged it. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Her skin is so soft, like old thin leather that’s been folded and wrinkled a thousand times. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He wrinkled his brow, thought for a moment, and took my pulse. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Honey,” Paige said, “it would take a lot more than God and Virgil Hedgepath to get me to one of those godawful boring teas where those dumb wives sit around counting each other’s wrinkles.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The sky was nothing but falling water, a ceaseless deluge that wrinkled and bloated my skin and froze me stiff. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “We’re fine,” she said, but the wrinkle in her forehead was back. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It looked like a huge thumbprint, even to whorls of wrinkled skin. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I unpack my dark skinny jeans, the slightly wrinkled black silk camisole I borrowed from Violet. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z There was a sag now to his eyelids and the skin of his neck, which was wrinkled and leathery. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “A toad?” said her grandmother, wrinkling her nose in disgust. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy of coconut-shell skin is dressed better than for church, a purple bow tie, a white white shirt that wouldn’t wrinkle even if he rolled down a hill. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Clean air and trees and long brown fields that curved with the hills like patches on a wrinkled blanket. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z She nods toward the far end where a family of five has taken over half the tent, and wrinkles up her face to show how bad the smells are. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Her mouth folded into a tight, wrinkled stamp. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z She wrinkles her delicate nose, but panic underlines her words. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Doc Smith rubbed the wrinkles below her eyes. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Granny’s clock had just chimed midnight when Miss Love came back in, her eyes dark-circled, her green print dress wrinkled. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He was a man of middle age, with no stoop to his shoulders and fewer wrinkles, though he had the same cheerful smile. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “Are you looking for her for some reason?” the TA asked, wrinkling her eyebrows at Trevor. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “Virginia,” Silvia says, her forehead wrinkled in concern, “you don’t seem like yourself. Have you been sick?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He deepened his frown and leaned in close, wrinkling his brow. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z On the platform, people moved away from him, wrinkling their noses. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z On his left thumb, a birthmark smattering of freckles in the shape of a constellation dots across his wrinkled left thumb. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z An added wrinkle had to do with the Church. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z George patted a wrinkle out of his bed, and sat down. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides the red face, the boy had noticed the fat, bulging neck that folded down over the man’s collar and pushed up in wrinkled circles under his chin. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He put the flint stones back into the pouch, then ate a rice cake from the bag, wrinkling his nose a little at the first bite. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z And when I stand to fill up my water bottle and pop a lozenge and check that my audition music hasn’t wrinkled, I break into tears too. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I cooked the kidneys, my nose wrinkling at their stink, and stirred the beans, although they hardly needed it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Good-bye, Gogol,” Patty says, planting a quiet kiss on his shoulder, and to Ashima, dressed once again in her wrinkled silk sari, “Good luck.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “You two are animals,” says Liberty, wrinkling her nose. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z He made a terrible face, wrinkling up his nose and rolling his eyes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The deeply wrinkled face of a sleeping woman looks back at me, alongside her grace, fragility, and her sadness. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Hearing his voice on the air I saw again the long-toothed smile and the face masked with a net of fine wrinkles. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z She put the encyclopedia down and studied the old, wrinkled bills. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Her skin was tan and her face was covered with wrinkles. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Hundreds of dollar bills—ones, fives, tens, twenties, all wrinkled and worn—spilled into my lap. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Septa Moelle had stiff white hair and small mean eyes perpetually crinkled in suspicion, peering out of a wrinkled face as sharp as the blade of an axe. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The woman working there was young, maybe only thirty or thirty-five, but she had wrinkles all around her lips that made her mouth look permanently puckered. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Yes, you, my friend I will never forget,” Yishan said, and his wrinkled hands grasped hers. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Its forehead was wrinkled by the wide cuts, which made it looked puzzled, and the eyes squinted above the twisted nose. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The old lady would pick out the purple brinjals and yellow pumpkins, the shiny green and red chillies, feeling them with her wrinkled fingers and complimenting me on their size. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Their noses wrinkling in disgust, yet enjoying their inclusion for the first time into this forbidden bacchanal, Karen and Matt watched each detail of the operation with the keenest interest. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z That scared me, because he didn’t have a lap, just an empty wrinkled blanket where his legs should have been. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She did run fast, as fast as a child, although she was a wrinkled woman, an outburst that jumped at us from bushes, between cars, between buildings. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She had few teeth and her skin was folded into wrinkles, but her eyes were unclouded. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Calder noticed that she had unusually green eyes—a sea-green surrounded by lots of wrinkles and bones. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Later, the pace of the column slowed as the pleasant meadows wrinkled into hills. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Constance stood just outside the boys’ room, pointing at a patch of mildew on the ceiling and wrinkling her nose. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z She was going to get wrinkles from all that wringing. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z In the sudden tense silence, the air wrinkling between them all, Georgina got up and said, “Everyone ready for my roast lamb?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Her hair had become white and streaked with iron, and the flesh of her thin cheeks was wrinkled. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z My skin was wrinkled and swollen all over from being constantly wet. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Her wrinkled hand rubbed and squeezed his shoulder. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Its face was wrinkled, a composition made of a long snout, two black eyes, and a sliced mouth full of teeth. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The grandmother’s hair was gray and her face was wrinkled, but other than that she looked exactly like her granddaughter. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z It’s gone wrinkled, and the backs of his hands have turned transparent. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z This wrinkled old man in a straw hat tried to show me something when I poured out the water. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Gloves for my poor old wrinkled hands. How nice.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Eleanor's mom dumped the yellow plastic bag into the bathtub and started rinsing out the clothes, wrinkling her nose, even though they didn't smell. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z I turned back to racist dude’s wrinkled white face, his thinning gray hair. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Between his legs hung a limp cocoon that seemed smoother, free of the wrinkles that crisscrossed the rest of his body like mosquito netting. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z She wrinkled her nose and rubbed it on mine. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Later Elizabeth, with worried wrinkles: in her forehead, asked Melanie if April really meant it. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He had died of a mysterious African plague that had turned him as yellow and wrinkled as a piece of parchment. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And the texture of skin around the eyes, how fragile it was, and earliest to wrinkle, and the dart and flicker of the orb beneath the lid. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Uncle smiled and his whole face wrinkled upward in those happy curves. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She gave Pinmei a smile, her face wrinkling like the pit of a peach. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Miles wrinkled his nose when he said it, which didn’t surprise me—I imagined that Miles was sort of like an overgrown house cat. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Tufts of gray hair escaped from the braids beneath her beaded wrap, and more wrinkles than I thought humanly possible lined her face. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I’ve put in the incipient wrinkles, the little chicken feet at the corners of the lids. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “She’s so old and wrinkled,” they whispered, “all worn out. Only some old Indian would want her anyway.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z A wrinkle weaved its way across her forehead. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z What a way, he thought, his wrinkled lips flapping as he laughed and sputtered: What a glorious way to go.' The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Rob’s dad smiled at Gerald as he opened the car door, laugh marks making walnut brown wrinkles in the sides of his eyes. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He looks different in person than he does in his portraits or on the city’s JumboTrons, where his skin has a much warmer color and no wrinkles. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z After they left, Mama had Hanako press the clean clothes that were wrinkled from being in Mama and Papa’s suitcases. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He’d been walking toward Cootie’s car, carrying his best suit to put in the trunk so it wouldn’t get wrinkled on the way to Cootie’s mother’s funeral. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Suddenly I saw that they had some gray hairs and wrinkles. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The wrinkles between his brows were pulling his frown farther down. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “My paws were wrinkled like prunes after that shoot,” said Scruffy. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z This older version of Siobhan Washington was grayer, with more wrinkles. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Dazed, she threw off the covers and dragged herself out of bed, pulling on her wrinkled dressing gown as she stumbled through the kitchen and front hall. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Concern wrinkles her forehead, so I nod and smile enthusiastically. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Thomas followed, wrinkling his nose up at the sudden smell of dirt and manure coming from the animal pens. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z His face was grave and long and wrinkled more than it should have been. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Meggie dug her elbow into his stomach, but she had to laugh, even though her tears were still blurring everything, the table, her hands, Fenoglio’s wrinkled face. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z My shoes squeak loud when I walk, and my fingers are all wrinkled. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The road descends into the Rift, cutting across wrinkled knees of bluffs, until it hits bottom and unravels on a savanna dotted with acacia trees. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In this new space, I had time to aim squarely between the moose's eyes, watching his muscles contort and his skin wrinkle as he bent to take another mouthful of grass. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Tata Ndu didn’t say much, but he frowned so hard his big bald forehead wrinkled up like the bread dough when you punch it down. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She wrinkled her brow as she considered the question. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z She wrinkles her lips and scrunches her nose. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The skin around Uhmma’s eyes wrinkles in concern, her lips gather together in a knot. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Her wrinkles had wrinkles, small folds in deeper folds of leathery skin. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Mother smoothed out the wrinkles in her skirt. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulled out one wrinkled piece and smoothed it against the steering wheel. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Leaning out of the cloud, looking down, is a wrinkled white man with glasses. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Her hands were brown, darker than mine, and covered in faint wrinkles that made them look like paper bags someone had balled up and then tried to smooth out. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z I’m fifty-three years old with wrinkles on my hands. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Dallas wrinkles his nose like he smells something. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Rosa whisked her off the bed and wrinkled her nose at Matt cowering against the wall. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Takumi wore a starched white shirt with a red tie with a black paisley print; the Colonel wore his wrinkled pink button-down and flamingo tie. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z His mother was still beautiful, though her face was a bit wrinkled and cracked with powder, and her auburn hair had a few silver streaks. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “I hope not,” Grace said, wrinkling her nose. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He sized up the passengers, chose his prey: a wrinkled woman at the tail end of her Geritol years who fears her own shadow with good reason. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The swab low looked down at its wrinkled talons, narrowing its eyes. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “Not really. They do know how to needle me. They tease me about growing old—my hair, my wrinkles. They ask how I will enjoy being buried in a box.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “Thank you, Kiko,” she says, smoothing out the wrinkles in her gown. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Tiller’s mouth was squeezed tightly shut, and his nose was wrinkled and his eyes squinty. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Inside, the quilt on top of the opklapbed is wrinkled, with a faint depression in the middle. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Rubbing one foot against the other, I remove the layers of red mud to expose my small, wrinkled toes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Any irregularities in the universe would simply have been smoothed out by the expansion, as the wrinkles in a balloon are smoothed away when you blow it up. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Whilst Miss Duncan-the-first had been asking Mr. Taylor all those questions, it seemed like every growned-up that was listening had their face getting longer and longer and their foreheads getting more and more wrinkled. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z He took a fresh grip and lifted it, his nose wrinkling. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Lita grips her pendant smiling, and tiny wrinkles form around the corners of her eyes. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z If I took the sword, which my hate must surely have forged out of the air, and gutted him, I would put color and wrinkles into his shirt. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The tops of her hands were roped with muscle and veins, but her skin was wrinkled and soft. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s the kind of wrapping that’s been carefully chosen, not the wrinkled tissue in a Christmas bag that Zach Oh might give. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z She touched the faded scar upon her wrinkled cheek, where her tears had been cut away. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His face was profoundly wrinkled and black, like a mask of obsidian. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The deep wrinkle that had appeared between Liam’s brows eased but didn’t disappear. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Examining the two of them in that bright light I saw that they looked wrinkled, dusty, and gray. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “Behind the thirteenth door”—the guide flourishes one of his impossibly wrinkled hands—“is the Sea of Flames.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The outside can become hard and wrinkled, for all they care, like the shell of a nut. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z A fiendish rage animated him as he said this; his face was wrinkled into contortions too horrible for human eyes to behold; but presently he calmed himself and proceeded— Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z She had no wrinkles, and when her mouth was closed she gave the impression of extreme youth because of the innocent look on her face. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But it pleases me somehow to cut out all these imperfect women, with their forehead wrinkles that show how worried they are, and fix them into my scrapbook. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He wrinkled his nose in disgust at the odor, which filled the wood around and was already attracting ants and bluebottles. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad’s forehead was all wrinkled when he said this. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I lift and smooth my dress once again before laying it down carefully, making sure it will not be wrinkled tomorrow. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He trailed off, a perplexed look wrinkling his eyebrows. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He saw the face of a newly born child, red and full of wrinkles, ready to cry. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “You stink like an old billy goat,” she said, and wrinkled her nose. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She smiles with such incredible warmth and says, “I knew you’d come, Jimmy” She steps toward me and hugs me hard, her soft, wrinkled arms encasing me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z It seemed to be made up of nothing but lumps and wrinkles, and it squeaked and groaned every time he moved. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She had gray splotches under her eyes, and the fine wrinkles that came out from the edges of her eyes and her mouth seemed deeper this morning. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I notice that the edge of my tunic sleeve is wrinkled, and I smooth it carefully. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z But because of all the wrinkles, they weren’t dripping off. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Lily’s face wrinkles for a moment and then I see her hands stiffen, and the stiffness travels all the way to her mouth. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z I could see the wrinkles around her big eyes, and I could see her cheeks sunken without her top teeth. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z His black tunic was unbuttoned at the top, and slightly wrinkled—and his short hair needed a combing. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The other side of the amphitheater was set against what looked like a giant, wrinkled brown wall. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z In the middle was a blob of dark and the savage wrinkled up his face, trying to decipher the darkness. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He lifted his thin shoulders and wrinkled his forehead in an expression of ignorance. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The black eyebrows were less bushy, the wrinkles were gone, the whole lines of the face seemed to have altered; even the nose seemed shorter. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Luma handed him the roster, and the referee wrinkled his brow. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The creature looked almost exactly like one: a wrinkled hag with batlike wings, brass talons, and glowing red eyes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z His lean face was lined with deep black wrinkles, and he had thin, pain-tightened lips which were lighter than his face. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z From the highway, it looks like a wrinkle in the hills, or like the space in between fingers in a fist. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Both times I felt far worse after being groped by a pair of wrinkled hands than I had before I’d come in. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z It had come out of the hawk’s case so smooth, but now it was wrinkled and a little damp in places. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Her skin, crisscrossed with wrinkles, seemed almost transparent. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Xan puckered her wrinkled lips into a tight rosette in the middle of her face. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z People came and went, dressed in their Sunday clothes, some looking as if they were going somewhere, others wrinkled and worn, as if they’d already been away and couldn’t wait to get home. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The wrinkle had appeared between her brows again, and she stared hard at the symbol in the center of the cover, as if she could bore through it with the sheer intensity of her gaze. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z When they found the fool he was naked, his skin white and wrinkled and powdered with wet sand. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And not good for the complexion, not at all, wrinkle you up like a dried apple. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z One had tattered chairs, scattered sets of wrinkled magazines, and wobbly tables. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Her hair, however, was as gray and dusty as moth wings, and her sagging wrinkled skin almost hung off her face like a worn leather sack. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z She smoothed out a wrinkle in the tablecloth. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked, wrinkling my nose back at her. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Then he sniffed the air himself, and he couldn’t help wrinkling his own nose. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z She wrinkles up her face and narrows her eyes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Her shoulders had become plump while her hands grew lean and wrinkled. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It seemed that there were more wrinkles than I had ever seen before. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, she slept, without dreams; and in the morning when Kira woke the little cloth was limp, no more than a wrinkled scrap of pretty fabric in her bed. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There had been a rhythmic vibration in the ground audible through the paws, so that ears swung and nose wrinkled, but that had stopped. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The young dog nosed his friend all over, his lips wrinkling at the rank bear smell, then attempted to stanch the wounds with his rough tongue. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z When Eang sees the woman, her face wrinkles up and bursts into tears. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His big wrinkled hand reached for her, soft as old leather, and Dany wanted to take it and hold it and kiss it, she wanted that as much as she had ever wanted anything. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z There were no wrinkles in the face at all. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I kept my face neutral as I took wrinkled paws as well as brown hands like mine and lifted the Midfolk off the raft. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Though somewhat grey-haired and wrinkled by the time I came to know her well, from the stories I heard of her youth she could have captured the heart of any man she wanted. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z And what Dr. Muller said appeared to be true: though he was only forty- two, his face was wrinkled, burdened with jowls. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I saw the sun caught in sweaty black wrinkles at the back of his neck as his head flopped forward. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Around Halloween the last, stubborn wildflowers died away and the wind became sharp and gusty, blowing showers of yellow leaves on the gray, wrinkled surface of the lake. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z His flesh was wrinkled and spotted, the skin so papery thin that he could see the web of veins and the shape of bones beneath. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He set his hat upon a nearby chair and leaned in to drop a kiss on Mrs. Caruthers’s wrinkled cheek before straightening. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z And this dactyl—this strange and beautiful creature with its wrinkled, gray-brown hide, barrel chest, and slender neck—she wanted to hug it. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Her face, while a bit wrinkled, was red-cheeked and finely colored. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I watched the food slide down his throat, struggling to get past his sagging Adam’s apple, which pushed out of his neck like a wrinkled nut. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Caruthers looked like she was going to complain again but thought better of it, and just wrinkled up her mouth instead. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I began to cry with frustration until Mama handed me a red box and popped a tiny, wrinkled brown fruit into my mouth. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Johnny’s tuxedo dried to a stiff wrinkled greenish outfit. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hair was mostly grey, now, and her face was pouched, and wrinkled at the throat and eyes and at the corners of the mouth. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z When she heard me stir, she turned, wrinkling her forehead, and looked at me. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Stuart’s sunburned beneath his white shirt, the back wrinkled from driving, the sleeves rolled up. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z But I was looking at Schmidt’s hands, really wrinkled, chipped cheap nail polish. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Lyra wanted to ask all kinds of questions, but suddenly she felt shy of this massive man, with his little eyes so sharp and kindly among their folds and wrinkles. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “What’s so special about”—she wrinkles her nose at it— “pig fat?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “I was just looking at the way you wrinkle your forehead. That’s why you get those headaches.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “I’ll tell her the queen watches every night while he wrinkles his nose seven times.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z It took nearly an hour to press out all the wrinkles. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z And the odd thing was the brown part of his skin was as wrinkled and creased and folded-up as a hunnert-year-old saddle, while the white part was smooth as a baby’s behind. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z When I came out, my hair dripping, the tips of my fingers wrinkled, Mami and Abuela still sat across from each other. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I could barely see her bright eyes through the sea of wrinkles surrounding them. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He wore a wrinkled brown suit that stretched into folds around his waist because he was so fat. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The Black Tips’ lieutenant might have wrinkles creasing the corners of his eyes and burgeoning jowls beneath his sideburns, but he looked confident, experienced. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Because I can already see the wrinkles and gray hairs begin to fade away. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z No matter how he wrinkled his forehead and poked at it, he couldn't see any different than he'd done before. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Hazel looked steadily for a long time, listening with raised ears and wrinkling his nose in the unmoving air. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She walked bent over and was as wrinkled as a newborn baby. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Much cleaner, although a bit pink and wrinkled from her long soak. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z An arching wrinkle around its edge was my clue. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z One of his field trips was literally a trip to a field where the class watched a wrinkled man fill his mouth with rotten goat meat and feed it to a pack of waiting hyenas. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I wrinkle my nose as I squeeze a glob of the medicine onto my palm and begin to massage it into my leg. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Back in the ward, he found his wife lying vanquished beneath the blankets like a desiccated old vegetable, wrinkled, dry and white, her enfeebled tissues absolutely still. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “The solder melted,” he announced, wrinkling his nose at the sulfurous stench. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z An old woman with a sour wrinkled face, their grandmother, sat closest to Olanna, clutching a handbag and murmuring to herself. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Before my eyes his face lost its wrinkles, smoothing out to look like that of a much younger man, and the cotton....All the cotton in the room began to tremble. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I expect a smile—at least from Mother—but instead, as I bring the mug to my lips, her face wrinkles in horror and she yells, “No!” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z She’d be getting her cap and gown, and Mom would be taking pictures, and Malcolm would be trying it on while she yelled at him not to wrinkle it after all that ironing. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z She knelt beside him, wrinkling her nose at the smell, and pushed back his dirty grey hair to feel his brow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z With time, the outer petals would start to wrinkle, beginning at the tips. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Father’s arm went back and forth rhythmically across the sheet, smoothing out the wrinkles. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She wrinkled her nose as if she’d come to the conclusion that Narcissus smelled worse than he looked. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Rayburn didn’t move from his dog bed—not even a wrinkle wiggled. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I swear Principal Trask glances at my armband, and then she sniffs and wrinkles her nose like something stinks. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z His hair is uncombed, and his orange prison jumpsuit is wrinkled. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z She did not want her coat to get wrinkled! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He looks at the portrait of the parrot, wrinkles his nose, and throws it overboard. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Chubs reached between us and plucked the wrinkled letter out of my hand. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z It would inflate the balloon with a huge burst of power, smoothing out the lumpiness of the universe in the same way a breath of air smooths out the wrinkles of a balloon. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Twenty years from now, she'll have wrinkles in those spots, but for now I can enjoy the view. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Ruby looks thinner to me, more wrinkled than Stella ever was. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z His skin was so dry and wrinkled, his feet looked like they were chiseled from stone. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z She became stiff from all the sitting but wouldn’t lie down for fear that her dress would wrinkle. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z While the world awaited Whitney, an event at Tanforan introduced a new wrinkle in the match plans. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s wrinkled and a cuff is already fraying. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z An old Siberian Tartar, his eyes almost lost in the wrinkles around them, laid his bow down beside it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wait,” Sophia said, her face wrinkled up in a mixture of horror and disgust, “are you saying that none of you were contacted by the Oakland Police Department about Mr. Perez’s death?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The news directors must have sensed that their viewers liked Kwang’s youthful face, his grinning eyes, the tiny, new wrinkles. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Elinor wrinkled her nose as if such an idea were too ridiculous for her to waste a single word on it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Somkit wrinkled his nose, as if he were trying to decide whether to believe her. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Strange whitish eyes stared out of a wrinkled, brown face. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z His navel had once jutted out, I could tell, but now it looked like a wrinkled eggplant, drooping. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I felt country enough in my wrinkled homespuns and I didn’t want to be saying that I couldn’t read. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I step inside and glance around at the wrinkled rap posters hanging alongside his framed photographs of Stephen Hawking and Martin Luther King. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z "Ma'am! Want to get rid of those wrinkles? Better than Botox, and gluten-free!" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z After I took off my boots, my feet looked wrinkled and tender and white. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When finly we got here I was so tired and my dress was wrinkled and full of dust but the minute I saw Shad it was like heaven for both of us. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z He was wearing his favorite pair of jeans and a wrinkled black T-shirt. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z She pulled the dress over to the edge of the bed and shook out the wrinkles. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z When he came close enough to speak, he raised the lantern and held it to show his face: an old man with a broad, lined face, and eyes nearly lost in a thousand wrinkles. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Last seen when she was red and wrinkled. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The skin of her face was stiff and shiny as if from overstretching, elsewhere it showed folds and wrinkles. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z She got a square of thick wrinkled duck material with linen tape ties and sprinkled it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z My nose wrinkled at the smell of vinegar coming from the woman. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She blinked, then stared at my coiled-up hair and wrinkled dress. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Matt examined his own image with interest, wrinkling his nose and raising his eyebrows. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I wrinkle my brow, trying to remember, and nod again. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z She studied his face: the wrinkles, the aquiline nose, the mumbling mouth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It takes a while to get the wrinkles out, of anything new. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s this wrinkled old bat with bad breath, so kids avoid her. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She tapped it lightly on the floor as she looked down at Aunt Jimmy’s wrinkled face. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Because it smoothed the wrinkles, the fumble and rush of unfamiliar love and roused them to fever pitch. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When he reads, he has a deep wrinkle in the back of his head. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z She noticed that Noah was gently picking up the trembling slave girl, moving her to the other side of the wagon and placing her on a blanket that lay wrinkled on the rough floorboard. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z "But is it true . . .?" "Suh?" the farmer said, his brow wrinkling with bewilderment. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked at him and wrinkled my nose, deliberately insulting him. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Their eyes wrinkled, their trunks waved, they tossed their heads—and from their throats came the unmistakable sound of merriment. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Then as she reached for my hand, her face turned toward mine, the last firelight rays of sun softened her wrinkles. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z I carefully smoothed out all of its folds and wrinkles. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Then came the day Scythe Goddard threw a new wrinkle into the taut fabric of Rowan’s life. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I saw Old Granny again, toothless and wrinkled; Kenny, his eyes sorrowful when I told him we were going; Sacrabani’s face, white and scared as it often was. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “You are a star, Chubs, a—” His nose wrinkled at the name. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z His white button-down—bright against his dark brown skin—wrinkles as he moves. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The wrinkles on the chief’s forehead began to ease. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z A tiny wrinkle of surprise appeared between Tanin’s brows as she set her cup aside. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He squinted at her ruefully and wrinkled his nose. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She took a whiff and wrinkled her nose. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Imagine a flock of vultures the size of people—with dirty black plumage, gray talons, and wrinkled pink necks. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Troubled, Siddhartha looked at the kind face, in which there were many good-natured wrinkles. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z She wrinkled her nose and cast a contemptuous look through the window at the crumbling plaster of the neighboring houses. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Minli wrinkled her forehead in confusion, but was too eager to get home to her parents to ask any more questions. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Bengalis like Masjid learn early how to save ten minutes' worth of words by raising an eyebrow, wrinkling a nose, or tipping a head at a specific angle. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Her face was pale and as wrinkled as a dhobi’s thumb from being in water for too long. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The airshaft was topped by a miniature, slant-roofed skylight whose heavy, opaque, wrinkled glass was protected from breakage by heavy iron netting. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I see us old and wrinkled and visiting each other a few times a year and watching The Wizard of Oz and Ellis grabbing my arm when those monkeys appear. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z She sipped, wrinkled her nose, added another spoonful, stirred, then sipped again. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z His skin was so black and wrinkled that it seemed to absorb light into its crevices, to be let out again in the most glorious smile I’d ever seen on anyone with no teeth. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I'm so hungry right now all I can think of is taking out the belly wrinkles, as the fellas say. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The burn is maroon- colored and wrinkled like a dead apple. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Of course not,” Garland interjected, his face wrinkled with indignation; his words broke off, bitter and sharp. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Her face was gentle and kind, pleated with wrinkles. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z And to complicate it, new wrinkles are being added to the fabric of the Scythedom every day. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I look at their dirty, wrinkled faces and ask, “Where is Tatarska Street?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I look at the Quinns and see that the wrinkles around their eyes are pink and raw. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It was getting darker in the room, but for some reason, even in the dim light that hid their wrinkles, her grandparents looked older. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The wrinkles around them were drawn in radial lines inward by laughter. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In four years he’s achieved more wrinkles, and the sideburns and mustache are graying further. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A wrinkled, yellow palm waved timidly from the hall. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Her fingers wrinkled from being immersed in water and, perversely, her mouth dried up with thirst. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And again, her fist making wet smacking sounds against Nin’s wrinkled flesh. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He clutched his knees with his wrinkled hands. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z They wore printed rayon party dresses, wrinkled now and clinging to their convexities. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Her tan and gold sari, tinged with dirt, her face dry and looking even more wrinkled. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The only way to tell if someone is a bodiless witch is by the deep wrinkle lines around her neck. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z No stains, all tucked in, and only wrinkled on the shoulders because of my backpack straps. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Her forehead wrinkled; she mumbled and handed it to Daddy. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even from a distance, she could see the tent was anchored closely to the snow-cleared ground, the cloth tightly stretched without a wrinkle. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z I’m glad it’s dusk; I’m nervous about the backs of my thighs, the wrinkling above my knees, the soft fold across my stomach, not fatness exactly but a pleat. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes, washing the Doctorita’s huge, stretched- out underwear, I’ve noticed bloodstains, which I soak in soapy water with my nose wrinkled in disgust and horror. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Though maybe it wasn’t her after all—her face seemed to have extra lines and wrinkles, as if she’d started frowning and squinting all the time. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I restarted the first track and watched his face for clues—the wrinkles in his brow, his squinty eyes. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Stella looked down and tried to smooth her wrinkled dress, suddenly regretting that she had not taken the time to change her clothes. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She sees all of it, I know she does, but all I see her do is wrinkle up her lips and squint her eyes a bit. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z They saw his lips wrinkle and curl away from his teeth, which, even without his fangs, were still formidable. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Erlan wrinkled his nose at me, and I watched his face while he thought hard. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z I knew he heard me, because his forehead wrinkled, but he didn’t answer. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z As I served the hot chocolate and tidied the chamber, Madam rubbed her face with Venetian Bloom Water beauty wash, said to remove wrinkles. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Trina had not stopped looking at Mark, her face wrinkled in confusion. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Bud Gleason sucked in a tortured gasp, shot up his eyebrows and lowered his eyelids, wrinkled his upper lip and twitched his nose, going “Ah . . . ah . . . aaah . . .” But it didn’t come. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In his new personage he was always cold, sullen, distant, contemplative; always wrinkling his brow and scratching his balding head and wringing his hands and muttering curses and complaints, especially on Fridays. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I wrinkle my nose at all the pennies and try to look elsewhere as the woman behind the counter watches Uhmma count. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Behind the closed door, she pulled the two bills from her pocket, and lying on the bed, smoothed out the wrinkles. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z She hands me a wrinkled flyer and asks me for directions in Spanish. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z They were not normal wrinkles—there was no better word for them than “slashes.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She paused as she gazed at the wrinkled picture. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z He was so old and his face was very wrinkled, so that a smile used so many lines that all gradations were lost. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z His face is perpetually frowning with wrinkles so thick he could be melting. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He was extremely thin, with shoulder- length white hair neatly combed beside a face so seamed and wrinkled, it hardly seemed real. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I move over to Miss Skeeter, but she wrinkle her nose up at me and say, “No, thanks,” cause she don’t eat no eggs. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She looked at him out of small, sharp, black eyes, as sunken and sharp as a monkey’s eyes in her thin and wrinkled face. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z It’s even worst when they don’t come right out and say they’re disappointed but instead look at me and wrinkle their brow then turn away whilst shaking their head a little. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z He had dark hair, his face young but full of wrinkles around the eyes, as if he’d spent each day of his life worrying about how to make it to the next. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z She had a lucrative side business as a Tailor, seeing to the wrinkles and jowls of the wealthy Kerch, but her chief source of income came from altering moods. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Scattered throughout it are certain words, such as “worried,” “Florida,” “old,” “lonely,” “gray,” “bingo,” and “wrinkle.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z She would think of his laugh, the way his brown face would wrinkle around the eyes and the wide smile would fill their small kitchen. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Minli turned around and saw a wrinkled, poor man begging at a peach stand. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Chubs lifted the wrinkled letter and extended it out to him. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The next day at lunch, Eevie sat down and immediately wrinkled her nose. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z His gray hair was brushed neatly back from his smooth, tanned, barely wrinkled forehead. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “And smoking is a terrible habit that not only eats your lungs away, it gives you those spidery lip wrinkles before your time, which Botox will not fix.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z But then he looked me in the eye and his brow wrinkled. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Kymopoleia wrinkled her nose and waved away the darkness, but otherwise it didn’t seem to affect her. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z In the candlelight Pong couldn’t see any wrinkles on his face. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z As he drove he hauled out the now wrinkled notes, found her so-called “age.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z She turned back to me and wrinkled her forehead. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Robert said, wrinkling his chin and sending his caterpillars crawling toward each other. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The woman’s hands were warm and wrinkled, touching hers with a tenderness so much like Amah’s. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z He stood with his wrinkled old hat held in front of him like a man presenting flowers to a great lady. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z "Send us all a text when you make it out of surgery," I said, ironing the wrinkles out of my khaki skirt with my palms. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z There was a wrinkled Oriental rug bunched up on the corner of the table in front of him, and his left hand rested on what appeared to be a book. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z “You!” she said to him, her face wrinkling in cheerful smiles. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Besides, old women must know something, or they wouldn’t live to gather wrinkles and yell from their front stoops. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z His brow was crisscrossed with wrinkles, his dark eyes brooded and burned with some kind of invisible suffering, and the fingers of his right hand played aimlessly with a long, gray earlock. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Old and wrinkled, each nobleman wore fine clothes and decorative swords. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z In the mirror I can see the wrinkles on my forehead that my mother was talking about. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z She saw his face wrinkle with disbelief when she talked about the fish and he shook his head when she told about the dragon, but he didn’t interrupt once. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z The wrinkled coverall was gone; he was dressed in a whole new outfit; khaki drill slacks, very neat; a blue work shirt; even new work shoes and a straw cap. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The skin on her face was creased by a thousand wrinkles. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z A cloud of steam enveloped him and his wrinkled face could scarcely be seen peering into the cauldron. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Although Mia had flattened the pages, the wrinkles still rippled across the birds’ wings as if the wind were ruffling their feathers. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “You and I are about to prepare a most unpleasant surprise for Capricorn!” he whispered, a smile lurking in every one of his wrinkles. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He had friendly wrinkles around his eyes and mouth. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Vasudeva’s smile was radiant; it hovered brightly in all the wrinkles of his old face, as the Om hovered over all the voices of the river. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z He wrinkled his nose when he said the word Shi’a, like it was some kind of disease. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “He sounds like Percy,” said Ron, wrinkling his nose in disgust. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Tally tried to imagine her growing old, wrinkled, gradually ruined, all without ever having been truly beautiful. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Offended by his friend’s bad taste, Amarante looked stonily straight ahead, his wrinkled old hand still lying firmly atop the gun. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “How are you doing this?” she said, her brow wrinkling. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z They studied wrinkles, reflections, shadows, wood, glass, and fabric. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z He picks up the photograph to look more closely, and when he does, the little wrinkle on his forehead is so familiar it takes my breath away. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Hard to imagine her legs once strong, the bones hard and parting water, clean sharp strokes, not bent and wrinkled like a baby, not drowning under the sticky yellow light. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z As she explained what the words said, Captain Reed glanced at the mate, whose brow furrowed, deepening the lines on his wrinkled face. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I stare at the shirt on the ironing board, half wrinkled, half smooth. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z While Mama tells the class the correct and incorrect ways of cooking vegetables—the microwave makes them soft but also wrinkles their skin—I zone out. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z All of us were embraced and kissed many times and tears flowed down wrinkled old cheeks and suddenly that quiet gloomy house came alive with many children’s voices. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Ranofer smiled uncertainly and the old man’s face seamed into a thousand wrinkles of pleasure. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z She massaged Ambuya's face and felt the teeth clenched beneath the wrinkled skin. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When her cup was presented to her, the blind girl wrinkled her nose and drank it down in three long gulps. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She looks even older than I remember her, and that makes me sad, and she has laugh lines and wrinkles around her eyes, which makes me happy too. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z And I don’t mention the slight wrinkles around her eyes or her pimples, because I know they would bother her, even when they add something real to her beauty. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z In the album Dad’s ticket looks sort of lumpy and wrinkled because he’d crumpled it into a ball when the state trooper handed it to him. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z His chestnut skin was wrinkled and thoroughly spotted, as though age had been welcomed as a friend instead of an adversary. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z My stomach flips again, but I wrinkle my nose, about to delete the message, and then the four o’clock reminder for the AffloVest pops onto my screen, a tiny animated pill bottle dancing. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Nana’s face wrinkles with disgust, but she also looks ready to laugh. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z One Mexico City woman wrinkles her nose when she talks about migrants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z His gray suit is wrinkled and he’s got bags under his eyes like he hasn’t slept in days. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z He prodded my chest with a wrinkled finger, and made a tsk noise with his tongue against his teeth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She looked into Father Cham's wrinkled face with her shining black eyes. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z This interaction would feel worse if he were older, if he were wrinkled, if he had stained teeth or a sagging belly. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Melanie’s forehead wrinkled with worry as she watched Elizabeth make her way timidly through the noisily assembling fourth graders, to the teacher’s desk. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Brett looked at me and wrinkled up the corners of her eyes. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Stuart strides in, wrinkled from the car, pulling on his navy sportscoat. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z My grandfather's white hair is scattered as a haystack and his clothes are wrinkled, but there’s no sleep in the deep grooves of his face. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z There were oak trees here, with enormous trunks, wrinkled and grey like the legs of elephants. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Her hands were large-knuckled, wrinkled; her palms the color and texture of an avocado pit. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z She cut open some wrinkled brownish fruit and pressed the cloudy juice into two small beakers. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Some strains produced only smooth seeds, while others produced only angular, wrinkled seeds. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It made the deep wrinkles laugh instead of worry or cry. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The old man’s face looked as if he hadn’t closed his eyes all night and he had several new wrinkles. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z It is small in my palm, brown from the sun with black dirt burrows in her nails and the wrinkles around the knuckles. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes when I looked at Grans, I could see the pretty girl she used to be underneath the wrinkles. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Xan picked Luna up, feeling the weight of the child’s face on her shoulder and pressing her wrinkled cheek against the little girl’s hair. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “Just so that we don’t end up with scuttles or bugs in the bed,” said Jinny, wrinkling her nose. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z And only a few wrinkles up on the shoulders. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The credits started rolling, and they started saying stuff like, “Does that school have a diving team?” and “I hear those mud baths are good for wrinkles.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The eyebrows and mustache, the fierce wrinkles between the eyes, the face, all were the merest black webs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z To be fair to the chicken, Pong's skin was so wrinkled and white from lying in the soggy mud that it did look like a maggot. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z His clothes were wrinkled and his cheeks were flushed. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “I had to put them up here,” said Fenoglio defensively, signs of a guilty conscience lurking among his wrinkles. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “Sweet Jesus, that’s a stink!” she says, wrinkling up her face. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z At any rate the arms, at a short distance from the trunk, were not wrinkled, but covered with a brown smooth skin. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I wasn’t thinking much of anything as my fingers slid over the wrinkled surface, smoothing it out as I unfolded it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z She sat with her cheek resting in the palm of her hand, bunching together all the wrinkles on that side of her face. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The first direct news that Úrsula received from him, several years after his departure, was a wrinkled and faded letter that had arrived, passing through various hands, from Santiago, Cuba. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Clever had fallen asleep after—Nhamo wrinkled her nose—relieving himself on her skirt. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I could see he was not at ease, so I took his poor old wrinkled hand in mine and asked him to speak fully; so he said, leaving his hand in mine:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z My mother normally ironed all the clothes as soon as Parvin pulled them off the clothesline—it kept the cotton kamizes from getting hopelessly wrinkled—but today the clothes still sat in their basket untouched. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z She wrinkled her nose as she breathed in the sickly-sweet smell. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z Francie pushed the wrinkled dog-eared card covered with stamped dates across the desk. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as he touched the wrinkled brown paper, he knew. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Chou looks at me now with her brows wrinkling close together, as if trying to figure out my thoughts. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to go over and touch Papa- Nnukwu, touch the white tufts of hair that Amaka oiled, smooth the wrinkled skin of his chest. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z It was mirrors, not aches and pains, that turned a person old, everywhere white hairs and wrinkles. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She approached them, smiling, and then wrinkled her nose. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Some wrinkled their noses as he passed, whilst others laughed at the sight of him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Marie has wrinkles under her eyes and looks worn down from life and kids and putting food on the table each night. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z One by one she drew them from the paper wrapping, wrinkled and tinged with blood. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The old gentleman was thinner and wrinkled now but as dapper as ever. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I notice passersby wrinkling their noses as they try to avoid getting close to me on the crowded sidewalk. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Constance knelt to cradle her old friend’s head, and Matthias gently clasped the wrinkled careworn paw. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z And plink! a silver drop falls, and the round wrinkles in the glass make all the towers bend and waver like weeds and corals in a grotto of the sea. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The first worry lines appeared within a fortnight; the first wrinkles within a month, and before the year was out, creases abounded. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Dad’s forehead wrinkled as he lowered his phone. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z She wrinkles a bit when she smiles, but, yes, she looks happy. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z She hardly has any wrinkles and has these big, round eyes that always look sad and wounded. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Then she smiles and there are no more wrinkles in her forehead. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z These wrinkles were the only indications that the face had suffered and that time had left at least a few footprints in passage. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But then, feeling the fingernails of their wives, also staring, digging into their arms, their foreheads wrinkle. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Uriah wrinkles his nose at his brother and puts the pellet gun away. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z She hand the check to her but Miss Hilly all wrinkled up, thinking. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Ron peered into Harry’s teacup, his forehead wrinkled with effort. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Now he was coming to the end of the inlet, a high blank wrinkled mass of rock against which, narrowed to the width of a little creek, the last sea-waves lapped feebly. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z I acknowledged him with a tiny smile, found my money, and dropped it into Wally’s wrinkled hand. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z The few wrinkles they have are highlighted by this dust that’s blowing everywhere. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z She was almond-buttery with sweat and sun, her face corrugated with a thousand caramel wrinkles and her hair looking flour dusted, but the rest of her seemed decades younger. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d started out earning petty cash by ironing and rubber-banding wrinkled money from dice games, and then moved up in the organization. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z His face was a deep Indian brown but his hands were bleached and wrinkled from the chemicals in the pool. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Her face was old and wrinkled, but her eyes were clear and sparkling, like the eyes of a young child. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z How we loved him then, when his frown wrinkles reversed their field and became a wide grin. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z He wrinkles his nose and holds out his hand. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z “Many coattails were wrinkled by Sandy Pittman latching on to them,” says a former business associate of Mr. Pittman who insisted on anonymity. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z She still looked old, but she stood straighter than the last time I’d seen her, and many of her wrinkles had disappeared. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z There was one of him as a newborn in the hospital, red and wrinkled like a raisin, and another of him sitting in a playpen, grinning up at the camera. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He’s always just looked “old” to me: wrinkled, gray-haired, holding a cane. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z By the little wrinkles that bunched up on her forehead, I could tell that Mama wasn’t satisfied. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I resolve not to be so tenderhearted as even Minerva says crying will bring on prematuring wrinkles. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes hid in the folds of her wrinkled lids. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I wrinkled my nose as dramatically as possible. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Mom would be even angrier at me if she knew I had slept in my nice button-down shirt; it was wrinkled and drenched in sweat, despite the cold clinging to my bedroom window. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Its body was wrinkled and swollen, filling out a tunic that had been too large before. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “All wrinkled. What am I going to wear?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z His manner is kindly, fatherly; he gazes out at us from the screen, looking, with his tan and his white hair and candid eyes, wise wrinkles around them, like everybody’s ideal grandfather. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He was smiling broadly and warmly now, his eyes wrinkling at the corners, the hard lines of his face almost gone. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I pull the filthy plaster off the end of my finger and look at the pale, wrinkled flesh beneath, dried blood caked at the edge of my fingernail. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I drink tea and kiss Milla’s wrinkled cheek on my way out. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z And her perfect skin was wrinkled, with a mole next to her nose. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z My gown was stained and wrinkled from the journey, and my hair was probably limp and unkempt. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I took the paper and made a big show of smoothing out the wrinkles on the tree house floorboards. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Mrs. Farmer traced a dark, wrinkled finger across the letters stamped into the aluminum. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z His wrinkles smoothed and his hair filled in until he promptly looked like himself again. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z She says this the same way my brother says “slug juice” or “snot” when Carol’s around, and Carol does the same thing, the same wrinkle of the nose, the same wriggle. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z "I always wore gloves. You got to understand—gardening ages your skin faster than a month of sunbathing. Not that that matters now," he said wryly, studying his wrinkled hands. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Her face was buried in a romance novel titled My General Forever, and a large snoring bulldog lay curled in a pile of wrinkled skin at her feet. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z She was lying in bed, smiling, and her many wrinkles could not hide the light in her eyes. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z She smoothed out the wrinkles in her not-at-all-like-Mom blouse and gray skirt. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z She clicked the watch into place and closed Our Lady, smoothing out the wrinkles on her sash. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Her branches began to wind back into her spine, one by one, while the folds of bark were devoured, bit by bit, by the folds of her wrinkles. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z When she saw that I was, Bat Lady’s wrinkled face spread into a smile that sent little icicles down my spine. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Moss imitated one of Njemile’s moms, and he fixed his face with a wrinkled frown. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He is full of years and wrinkles and also full of solemnness. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z I pry the box open to reveal a new and unexpected wrinkle to my current situation. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Sometimes these brought a smile that wrinkled Elnora’s wide, round face. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z They felt so warm and strong, almost as wrinkled as a crumbly’s from days spent working in his wood shop. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Under the weight of the chains their young faces wrinkled and grew old. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time I pay him back, I’ll be almost thirty—a wrinkled, old woman.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z A man with wrinkled brown skin and a long white beard blocks the path to the elevator. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Their eyes are moist and clear, their skin is smoothed of wrinkles, and their nails grow strong. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He was there too, peering at the baby’s wrinkled little face, peering with even more concern at Alice’s face, sweat-streaked and weary. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z He sniffed around, wrinkling his facile nose at the unfamiliar smell, then reached out a long curved black paw and tapped the white head. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Conrad’s eyes got large and his forehead wrinkled as he let go of the train’s engine and Grandma placed it in the gift box with our other contributions. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The left side of the Belle's face is fused into hard wrinkles, like melted wax. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The policeman pulls out a wrinkled slip of paper. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z I was appalled to see how wrinkled and used up I looked. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z It was measured in the wrinkling of human flesh. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The oak leaves wrinkled at the edges, though they had no notion of going anywhere for quite a long while. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z His face was wrinkled from hunger and fear. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z She laughs, wrinkles her nose, shakes her gold earrings. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z At the largest table, six ragged men laughed and clinked glasses with old women in wrinkled dresses and faded lace. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I wrinkle my nose and hold my breath. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z The arm was slim and sparsely haired, without wrinkles or kidney spots. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She handed it, wrinkled and brown and fragile, to the Owner. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “Tree-ear!” she exclaimed, her face breaking into the thousand wrinkles of her smile. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z She looked like an old magpie, with her gray hair scraped back and a pointed nose that didn't seem to fit her small, wrinkled face. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The wrinkles in the silk lining seemed, for some reason, to annoy him. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z “What y’all want?” a wrinkled, skinny slave sitting on the bank of the river asked. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Only around the eyes where the tip of the iron couldn't get to were there wrinkles—from smiles. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Alys, toothless and wrinkled though with piercing eyes and a sharp tongue, told the men roughly: “Leave us be!” when they carried the trembling creature in to her. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z All three women looked ancient, with pale faces wrinkled like fruit leather, silver hair tied back in white bandannas, bony arms sticking out of bleached cotton dresses. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Then he continued, his forehead wrinkling as he looked at Hanako. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The page looks like the day—wrinkled and empty no longer promising anyone anything. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z The women around them wrinkle their noses, some start to laugh. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z And seen closer in the light of two candles that he lit and carried before them the landlord’s face looked rather wrinkled and careworn. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z There were small waves inside the big waves, and the surface reminded me of an elephant’s wrinkled skin with lines in all directions. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z He was walking in a daze, his clothes wrinkled from the drizzle of rain, his face splattered with mud, his shins scratched. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I had been studying very carefully the way my hands wrinkled when tightly clenched, but I was able to bring my head up and return his inquiring look. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She was about seventy now, a little more wrinkled but still petite and still kind. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Standing, she smoothed down the wrinkled skirt of her dress and looked around for Gitl. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did he go crawling around like this—look, Joey—like this? Did he wrinkle up his nose like this? Did he have a big old long tail?” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z What looks like an older version of him appears on the screen, but this man doesn’t have the scar on his lip, and there are more wrinkles on his neck than freckles. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z I could just see her raising her wrinkled fist in the air and warning Connor about the coming revolution. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Her forehead was wrinkled by a frown because she kept thinking: Where am I going this time? Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The Director slithers out from behind them, glaring at me—his suit wrinkled, his face beet-red. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z He covered them quickly with a wrinkled brown tarp, then called across the parking lot to the tiny black-haired girl. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Her legs were crossed with veins and her eyes were sunk in a web of generous wrinkles that did not make her look old. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Dinah was snuggled against my side, her crepe wool hair standing on end and her dress wrinkled and in need of a wash. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Her face wrinkled up into a grimace of disgust. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Dustfinger wrinkled his brow, looking at her as if he wasn't sure whether to believe her. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Her forehead was wrinkled up like it was at Dad sometimes when they talked about who was supposed to do the grocery shopping, but I still didn’t get why. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes are half closed, white hair strewn in all directions, and skin yellow and wrinkled. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Her frown wrinkles two deep vertical lines between her eyebrows. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z I kept my eye on Sammy and for a second the dumbstruck look flew off his face and his brow wrinkled, but just as quick he went back to looking stupid-fled. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Dr. Somerset looked up, her weary gaze landing on Ivy, a frown wrinkling her eyebrows. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Pippin could see that his old brow was wrinkled and knotted. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z However, the road outside the house was not in good condition, and the delicate silk wrinkled over the many cracks and holes in the street. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z His face had a few wrinkles, mainly smile lines. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Weak children, wrinkled old women, the sick and the stupid and the heedless, the cruel land claimed them all. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She get the same wrinkle between her eyebrows when she worried, like her mama. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Heaven forbid that the clothes had a wrinkle. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Brown Ben had a seamed and weathered face, skin the color of old teak, white hair, and wrinkles at the comers of his eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Luke tried to smooth the garbage bag, which suddenly seemed impossibly wrinkled. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z My grandmother was tremendously old and wrinkled, with a massive wide body which was smothered in grey lace. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z I run my hands over the soft velvet of my dress, smoothing any unseen wrinkles, and I happily discover it has hidden pockets! Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z The prison guards watched her more closely because they thought that the wrinkles resulted from her taking off her skin at night and then putting it back on in a hurry, before sunrise. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z She stared at her hands as if to make sure they weren’t wrinkled. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I slid my wrinkled dollars up on the counter almost as if it were a secret note I was passing in class. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z In one shot, Ishtar sat in the shade of a cypress tree, holding an old man's dark, wrinkled hand, his head as bowed as the branches. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Gilly ran a finger over the wrinkled brown leather, which could almost have been a piece of Mr. Randolph, but the observation seemed too raw, so she kept it to herself. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Everything felt wrinkled to us when he was gone. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z As I came closer, I saw he was actually fixated on the wrinkled sheet of paper in his hand. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z W.E. squinched his little nearsighted eyes together, wrinkled up his stubby nose, drew his arm way back, and pitched the airplane with all his might. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z “That’s not what I mean,” said Mia, and Pearl noticed the wrinkle between her mother’s eyebrows that meant she was deeply worried. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She could only see the kind wrinkles around the lady’s eyes, but not the eyes themselves. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I saw the thinking wrinkles bunch up on Grandpa’s forehead. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z That was decidedly less fantastical, but by then, Ivy was hooked on Taryn’s bubbly laugh and the way she wrinkled her nose at anyone who made fun of Ivy’s poofy hair and freckles. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z There he stood, a cut on his cheek, his clothes wrinkled and gray, even his hair saturated with dust. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I wrinkled up my forehead at her to explain what she meant, but she just nodded at the door again. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “He recognizes Nemesis cracked another cookie and wrinkled her nose. “You will have great fortune when you least expect it,” she read. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The wrinkles on her face catch them like silver fish in a net. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Saggy wrinkles creased his face, and he had only a few wisps of white hair left atop his head. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Competing for attention on an adjacent stage was a loudmouthed showman in coattails and a large, prehistoric-looking creature whose gray skin hung from its frame in cascading wrinkles. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “I was her favorite,” he said, and as he said it, a grubby schoolboy seemed to look out through Aberforth’s wrinkles and tangled beard. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z His chubby legs and bare feet poke from beneath his wrinkled shirt. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z They were a mom’s hands, soft, with only small wrinkles, and chipping polish on the nails. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Many of these chattels were on their way to ruin by the late rains, their veneer being invaded by the water and swelling so that the wood wrinkled and buckled. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z She rubs at the sides of her eyes, where she has deep wrinkles that never go away. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z It was wrinkled and dirty, its edges ragged. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I could tell from her wrinkled, squinty eyes she was grinning. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z It was wrinkled like an old woman who'd spent her youth sunbathing. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z I noticed that his wrinkled old hand trembled as he rubbed the wire-stiff stubble on his chin. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Her wrinkled face contorted with fear when she saw what little Jeanne was doing. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The officer wrinkled his nose and tucked the box beneath one arm. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z She pressed her wrinkled hands together, forgetting the man in the yellow suit. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z It had a round wrinkled face that looked very dark and upon its head the hair was long and damp and black. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The bartender’s smile was a crooked, wily thing that made the scars wrinkle in his cheek. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z In great haste Gregor had drawn the sheet down even further and wrinkled it more. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z Her forehead is all wrinkled up, just like when her mama fuss at her. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z In the afternoon, when I rise, the garment is wrinkled, and I have no one to blame but myself. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z McCoy stood before the scoreboard, his gray hair disheveled, his suit wrinkled. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Nearby, I see one of his spies, a wrinkled creature with a nose like a parsnip and a back hunched higher than her head. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Through the indigo murk, she could make out the wizened features at the Undying One to her right, an old old man, wrinkled and hairless. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Today it was three brown eggs boiled hard, with fried bread and ham steak and a bowl of wrinkled plums. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I wanted to tell her that her lipstick was bleeding into the wrinkles around her lips. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He wiped his eyes with a wrinkled handkerchief he took from one of his pockets. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z I see her dark wrinkled hands spooning masa onto a corn husk. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z As he nears, I see his brow is furrowed in wavy wrinkles of a permanent scowl. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z She wrinkled her nose and squinted like I’d said something funny. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z She pulls out a few family photos that are folded and wrinkled. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Her eyebrows are doing this slight wrinkle in the middle, which is what happens when you’re worried. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Her face is tomato red and her forehead is all angry wrinkles. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I rub her hand over and over, memorizing her wrinkles. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It was a map of the world, and it wrinkled and distorted itself hotly and went—flimpf— and was gone like a warm, black butterfly. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I could see the sweat already wrinkling the pamphlet I’d just given her. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Every time she sips her drink, her nose wrinkles. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Her smile spread wrinkles across her whole face. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He was still wearing the same wrinkled black suit, which now looked like something from a trash barrel; he couldn’t even find time to buy a new one, despite repeated requests from Ophelia. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z If anything, most academics would wrinkle their noses at a Rolling Stone piece. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His face was too wrinkled to still be alive, yet his dark skin was shiny and he spoke slowly, gobbling the words in his jaws before he let them out. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z She wrinkle her nose a little when she ask, like she think Lafanmi be maybe a nasty place. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He leaned back against the tree, and balanced the wrinkled paper napkin on his knee again, and scribbled something else on it. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The wrinkles around her eyes become a little unsettled and her eyes seem filled with sparks. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Chief Joyi was so old that his wrinkled skin hung on him like a loose-fitting coat. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The back of his suit was wrinkled from where he’d sat in it all day. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Mom raised an eyebrow, and a curved wrinkle formed across her forehead. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Startled, I looked up into Ultima’s brown, wrinkled face. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The wrinkles on her forehead are like ocean waves, her eyes are deeper and piercing, and her thin lips stretch into a weak smile when she sees me. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Luke wrinkled his nose at the thought of eating soybeans. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Then she stood up and smoothed the wrinkles in her apron. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He liked to look at the way her light brown skin had wrinkled at the corners of her eyes and her mouth, from too much laughing she liked to say. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z A small colony of them, shrunken, dried and wrinkled. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z She smelled bad, or perhaps it was her house: Harry wrinkled his nose as they sidled past her and pulled off the Cloak. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It hadn’t ever looked quite the way I saw it then: The sheets were wrinkled and shoved to the foot of the bed. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z The head seamstress glanced at us, brow wrinkled. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Tree-ear was so called after the mushroom that grew in wrinkled half-circles on dead or fallen tree trunks, emerging from the rotten wood without benefit of parent seed. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z At the sight of them, she wrinkled her nose. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z When he opens the door, his face is sagging and deeply wrinkled. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The long flowy man comes out, his face flush and his blouse wrinkled into a fret, and he looks as if he’s already given up on the entire project. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The striped parachute wrinkles and deflates in my hands. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z With his many years like the rings of a tree, his many wrinkles, his life crosses mine to give his many wisdoms. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z A small secret smile brightened the wrinkled face. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z She could feel the old women watching her, the ancient crones of Vaes Dothrak, with eyes that shone dark as polished flint in their wrinkled faces. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z To be clutched so fiercely often resulted in wrinkled clothing. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z She looks at me, a wrinkle running across her forehead. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Joey rolled his eyes and wrinkled his nose. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z “Watkyn, a towel. This water’s growing cool, and my toes have wrinkled up like raisins. No, not that towel, the soft one.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They wrinkle their brows as they struggle to rhyme “wombat.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z There was no repose there and no trace left of the laugh wrinkles at the corners of his eyes. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The newscaster raised her eyebrows, but not a single wrinkle lined her forehead. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Rishi waited for her to continue, a small wrinkle between his brows. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z His little wrinkled hands were making fists, then straightening, then making fists again. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Every wrinkle was a patch of sorry to be smoothed and flattened. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Nana is gritty and hard; she wears her wrinkles and liver spots like battle scars from a war she’ll never stop fighting. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z We were all shivering, our fingertips pale and wrinkled. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Wash thought on it for a second, then puffed his cheeks out, lowered his eyebrows, and worked wrinkles into his forehead. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He unfolded it, his forehead wrinkling up as he looked at it. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It seeps into the dry and wrinkled folds. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Her skin is the color of coffee beans, and she has no wrinkles, though several silver strands are woven into her black braid. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z He wordlessly pulled on his jumpsuit, smoothing out what wrinkles he could. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z After stowing the rugelach in the icebox, I ran my hand over the sheet to smooth out the wrinkles, thinking of the night Yakov had come to live with us. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z When he laughs, the wrinkles stretch tight, and you can see the muscles and sinews of his neck. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z There was a dimple in the folds of wrinkles and baby fat. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Emo stood close to them; the fat under his chin was wrinkled with his grinning. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The Red Cross team leader, a middle-aged man with deep wrinkles on his forehead, is shouting, trying to be heard above the commotion. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “I didn’t want a tell you,” she says and her forehead wrinkles. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z A sheen of sweat covered the broad dome of the old man's brow, and wisps of white hair clung to his wrinkled skin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Deep brown, with wrinkles at the corners of his eyes and also on his forehead, like he could only smile or frown. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The tears ran in uneven channels down the wrinkled maze of skin on her face. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I took the soft, wrinkled piece from him. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I can feel the wrinkles of his pruney fingertips embedding their whorls into my body. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Chicken Man was a small man with deep, rich, almost copper-toned skin, a wrinkled face, and laughing eyes. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I never realized how short you are,” he said, and the half-amused, half-serious black eyes she knew so well looked down at her from his wrinkled face. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z He just looked back down to his wrinkled paper. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He moves himself in that wise, wrinkled way. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He looks at me and Jamie and gives a wrinkled smile. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z My pink dress was still crisp, no sign of wrinkles anywhere. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z When I stepped in to help him, he was dressed only in a pair of wrinkled khaki pants. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Dulcet wrinkled her nose and poked Boots gently in the tummy. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I walked to the dump, just a block or so from our house, wrinkling my nose as I got close, swatting away flies, and making sure I didn’t step on anything in my nice shoes. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Below our hill, the lights of Oakland would gleam like a cloud of fireflies and the wrinkling waters of the bay would turn to quicksilver under the moon. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Judge Biederman continues, but I don't think people break in on her very often, because her nose wrinkles up. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z She patted my arm, her wrinkled fingers like dry carrots. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The wrinkles in Bullet's forehead smoothed out like a sheet pulled tight. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Gloria withdrew her chubby little forearm from before her eyes and stood for a moment, wrinkling her nose and blinking in the sunlight. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z First the pregnant young woman recoiled and then she spat with a vicious intensity that wrinkled her forehead. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I can see her forehead wrinkle with frustration. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Her eyes, almost lost in the folds of leathery wrinkles, had a humorous gleam. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The man’s skin was dark and wrinkled as a walnut shell, though there was little sun damage on his face and hands. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z When he saw Vasudeva’s kind face, looked at his little laughter wrinkles, into his bright eyes, he smiled also. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Adam looked down at her hand and saw it wrinkled as a pale monkey’s paw. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He looks about like what you’d expect for a guy named Muqtada: big; straight gray beard; wide, wrinkled dark face; glasses with white plastic rims. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Her face wrinkles and she begins to cry. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Gran’s nose wrinkled as if she’d caught a whiff of Dad’s cooking. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z She was a very ugly old woman, Bran thought spite-fully; shrunken and wrinkled, almost blind, too weak to climb stairs, with only a few wisps of white hair left to cover a mottled pink scalp. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Somebody’s short, wrinkled grandma stood there, eyes folded shut, hands raised with the Spirit, murmuring over and over, “We’re ready for the overcoming, Lord. We been singing for it long enough.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z She breathed deeply, allowing her heart to slow and her soul to loosen its worries and wrinkles and knots. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z They got there bread, and butter, and cheese and apples: the last of the winter store, wrinkled but sound and sweet; and a leather flagon of new-drawn ale, and wooden platters and cups. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Riccio wrinkled his nose and pushed a finger into his mouth. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z His pants and jacket were wrinkled, but he didn’t look as derelict as some of the press accounts had indicated. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Phoebe put it on over her wrinkled blouse. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z She places a hand on top of my head and uses her thumb to smooth out the wrinkles on my forehead. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z She isn’t a whole lot to look at, I’ll grant you, with her sad little eyes and wrinkled mouth she keeps shut, morning till night, while she does everybody’s hair. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The old man was there now, the old man with the wrinkled face. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The wrinkles in Roy's cheeks shifted as he rolled his mouth a few times. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z The cradle has been turned towards her, but the tiny, wrinkled baby is not looking at the grandmother. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “It smells as bad as before,” Finn said, wrinkling up his nose. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Years of marriage, love, loss, trials, and tribulations were written in every wrinkle, line, spot, and curve of their faces. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z I see wrinkles in her forehead and around her mouth when she frowns. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Taylor smoothed the wrinkles from her wet dress and wiped her hands on her knees. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z They sent for the old woman, and she came: so frail, so gray, so wizened and wrinkled that it seemed like a breeze would blow her away. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The chief mate was a handsome figure, with his square jaw, his wide mouth, though the skin around his neck was beginning to sag, and the wrinkles in his face were like ravines. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z There was green powder in the wrinkles along her eyelids. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Up in the sky, her nose wrinkled as though she were experiencing the concentrated male stench firsthand. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The skin of my bare feet recognized the skin of the red earth with all its wrinkles. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z The high dead eyelids wrinkled more, the corners of his mouth snaked up as he chuckled, sly, hardly hiding his malice. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Some shiny, some speckled, some covered in wooly cocoons, some wrinkled and plain except for a curious sling that held them to a branch. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A crease of annoyance wrinkled the boy’s brow. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “Well, what do you do with your time? “I write a... domestic maintenance column for the Jackson Journal He wrinkles his brow, then laughs. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z And he muttered, not looking at her but at her wrinkled, wet hands, “There is no use in keeping pearls for nothing.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z He frowned as he studied the wrinkled little face. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “An old woman’s hand, I am thinking, wrinkled and feeble. I pray Daenerys returns to us soon.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Harry could see a strip of gleaming yellow beneath its wrinkled black eyelid. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I could see the guilty thoughts tumbling down his wrinkled forehead. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Her face is smooth for her age, but the wrinkles on her neck are like ripples in the ocean; the tiny brown spots above the neckline of her white dress are like small, muted suns. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z My mother always liked to say he was never going to get wrinkles because he hardly ever frowned. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z A tremor shaking the ground and ripples wrinkling the surface of the ponds were the only indications that some great force was passing through. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z When Mom got home, she wrinkled her nose at the sulfurous odor, then went into the basement and looked at the ruined hot-water heater. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She got up from her bed and smoothed out the wrinkles in her skirt. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z I sighed, taking in his perfectly made little ears, his smooth flat nose, the wrinkled brow over thoughtful eyes. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z My mom is like, ‘Oh my God, Ashton, please tell me you can’t see this wrinkle by my chin.’And of course I can see it—it’s, like, the size of a river. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He squinted at them, deepening the wrinkles around his eyes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The guy takes a look at us and wrinkles his nose like we’re the worst-smelling people he has ever gotten a whiff of. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Why did Eevie have to wrinkle her dumb nose like that? Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z She looked younger in it, almost like a girl who has woken up one morning to find her face wrinkled. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Professor Binns paused again, pursing his lips, looking like a wrinkled old tortoise. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z It brings onto our faces the same wrinkles and age spots our parents had. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I love the patches of human wrinkles on her face and the joy in her eyes. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z She wrinkled her nose and covered her face with her sleeve. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z This time, he closed the gap between them, placing a wrinkled hand on Ekon’s shoulder. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Granny stiffened and stared at me in amazement; then a glad smile lit up her old wrinkled white face and she nodded and gently patted my hand. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Her face is dark and wrinkled and her expression is fierce. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Hers were bright and soft, set in a small face netted with fine wrinkles. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Kit looked back at the faded eyes, sunk deep in wrinkles, and caught the twinkle there. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z His nose was wrinkled; he almost seemed to be smiling. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z After having gone back and forth with Aston for fifteen minutes, Tuttle finally waved his wrinkled hand at him like he was trying to shoo away a fly. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z “But—but how is it that they’ve forgotten it all?” said John, wrinkling up his forehead and trying to understand. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z A little wrinkled strain came between his brows. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Nan’s brow wrinkled, her eyes filled, and the corners of her mouth dipped. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z He scratches at his thick red beard, wrinkles his fat nose, and studies me. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I put Mister Leefolt’s wrinkled shirts in a basket, get a cloth for Baby Girl’s face to wipe off the jelly. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Her face was a map of wrinkles, and looking at them he felt more deeply how he would miss her when she was gone. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I rang the office buzzer, and an old woman with brown wrinkled skin like a well-used pirate map opened the door and flicked a cigarette butt over my head. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Her hair is like gray thread, her mouth soft, her face wrinkled and sweet. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z She smiles at me, and I see different wrinkles than before, at the corners of her eyes. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He showed them pictures then; they crowded around his La-Z-Boy as his wrinkled hands flipped slowly through a photo album thick with memories. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z By the wrinkles on his face she could tell that he was long overdue to turn a corner. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Abbot Mortimer stood and put a wrinkled old paw lightly on the small head, right between the velvety ears, now drooping with shame. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He looked back up the stairs and raised his head, letting the raindrops splash on his pale, wrinkled skin. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I notice today that Marge has a lot of wrinkles. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z A single wrinkled page spat out of the copier. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The smell of the salve stings my nostrils, and I wrinkle my nose. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Her pale arms, bare almost to the shoulder, were thin and wrinkled, with faint blue veins and a few purple scabs. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Gerald and Lydia are tanner, leaner, a bit scantily dressed, Lydia in a white tank top and a denim wrap skirt, Gerald in wrinkled blue shorts, a green polo shirt faded with use. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The dog stared at her, her wrinkled brow lifting, and Celaena smiled and set her down on the floor. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z She puckered her lips, and her already wrinkled face drew into more wrinkles. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z And the Doctorita—ancient, nearly blind, and wrinkled like a raisin—laughs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I found a wrinkled and damp five dollar bill. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z It was wrinkled and battered and just as valuable as the magic phone I held next to it. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z But here was the wrinkled, veined, discolored, shuffling, horrific truth, right before her eyes. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Not because of the wrinkles, and the face so old it could not be alive, but because out of the toothless mouth came the strong, mellifluent voice of a twenty-year-old girl. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Frederick’s mother shows him the unopened envelope—it is wrinkled, sepia-colored, and old, his name written in small cursive letters— but he shows no interest. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Bent-backed, wrinkled, and toothless, he was carried to the table by two strapping slaves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Phoebe reluctantly got dressed, pulling a wrinkled blouse and skirt from the closet. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z He had green eyes and smile wrinkles around his eyes, but he wasn’t smiling now. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “Get ready for questions like, ‘How many bubbles in a bar of soap?’ or ‘How many wrinkles in an elephant’s trunk?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z A trickle of blood traces a wrinkle down her face. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Even when I’m a wrinkled old lady, Sunday will always remind me of a worn, gray fake-leather sofa at the mall. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z The mane had been delicately cut, as had the wide-open roaring mouth and the wrinkles in the folds of fur. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Under her hands her nipples wrinkled and hardened like dark nuts, pulling at the soft skin on her breasts. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He gasps a tiny sound, wrinkling his nose, and I wonder if it’s the clam flats he’s smelling or if he’s dreaming. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Though there were wrinkles at the comers of her mouth and more around her eyes, she still stood tall, unbent, and handsome. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I noticed for the first time tiny, delicate wrinkles at the corners of her lips and on her forehead. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “What is that smell?” she asked, wrinkling her nose. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z But he keeps looking at me with his Thinker face, nose wrinkled like a bunny’s. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Boy21 wrinkles his brow and nods every so often like he agrees with whatever he’s reading. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “The movie that you’re going to make about your swimming lessons—Hidden Beach,” he says, but I wrinkle my nose. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The boy wrinkled up his face, folded his arms. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I sat on a hassock and wrinkled my nose. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Comrade Pillai stepped carefully around this wrinkle, waiting for a suitable opportunity to iron it out. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When she saw the inkfish, she wrinkled her nose and added, “Ew! We aren’t really going to eat that, are we?” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Finally, Mrs. Fields's wrinkled knuckles rapped on the heavy glass window of the classroom door. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z I paid twopence for the painting—half my weekly pocket money—and then asked the wrinkled shop woman what it was meant to be. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Everything’s a mess in here. A mess. All wrinkled . . .” “Water’s hot. Where you want the tub?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Tears filled her wrinkled eyes as she proceeded to unwrap the rest of the package. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The man’s shirt was wrinkled and stained with sweat under the arms, and Stella could see bits of the egg he must have had for breakfast in his beard. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I must wrinkle my nose, because she notices it and looks away, as if I might think the smell is coming from her. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I imagined the man picking up his radio—every detail, from the way he would fumble for it without his glasses to the way his jeans would wrinkle. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Behind the epic variance of natural organisms—tall; short; wrinkled; smooth; green; yellow; brown—there were corpuscles of hereditary information, moving from one generation to the next. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She had layers of ‘respectable’ wrinkles on her face, the kind my mother might also have one day, if she has a chance to survive. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z As we approached a street vendor whose spicy food was making my mouth water, a passerby in a faded sari wrinkled her nose and pulled her sari across her face. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z On the table in front of her was a wrinkled sheet of homework. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z |
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