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Examples of crumple in a Sentence
Laurel Wamsley, NPR, 30 Mar. 2024
The structure crumpled, sending the men, their vehicles and parts of the bridge into the Patapsco River.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
The Francis Scott Key Bridge would crumple into the harbor just four minutes later.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024
Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge crumpled at the impact of the Dali shipping container a gross tonnage of 95,000 on Tuesday morning.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2024
Finally, a whistle blew in overtime, and USC’s JuJu Watkins crumpled.
—Luca Evans, Orange County Register, 9 Mar. 2024
Footage from the scene by WJHL shows the fronts of both vehicles crumpled in.
—Olivia Lloyd, Charlotte Observer, 26 Feb. 2024
Curry, while attempting to go for an offensive rebound and keep a loose ball alive, landed on the foot of Philadelphia center Paul Reed and crumpled to the court, unable to get on his feet to run back on defense.
—Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 1 Mar. 2024
Her carte blanche curation begins with what looks like a blank canvas crumpled into a sculpture.
—Amy Verner, Vogue, 1 Mar. 2024
Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
Each card makes the fire burn a little brighter, a burst of light and memory as the paper singes and crumples.
—Time, 12 July 2023
In the Koroyd zones of the helmet, tiny tubes crumple upon impact to disperse and absorb energy.
—Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2023
The crumple of a man unfolding a newspaper, and a pencil scribbling the answers to a crossword puzzle.
—Andy Meek, BGR, 20 May 2022
Along the Gulf Coast, this is largely due to the extraction of oil and water, which makes the ground crumple like an empty plastic bottle.
—Matt Simon, Wired, 24 Feb. 2022
The man was outside, on a mobile, his voice dipping in and out amid the ambient scratch and crumple of the elements.
—Colin Barrett, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
Then came Osaka, a winner of the U.S. and Australian opens, acknowledging that athletes can publicly share vulnerability and truths about the types of pressure that would cause most to crumple.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Aug. 2021
The frenetic music in the background, the melodramatic slaps, Sarah Jane’s slow crumple to the asphalt.
—New York Times, 23 Feb. 2021
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Word History
Verb
Middle English crumplen, frequentative of Middle English crumpen
Verb
14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1
Noun
15th century, in the meaning defined above
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“Crumple.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crumple. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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