adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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crumpled soda cans
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Don't sit around in your suit. It'll get crumpled .
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I spent the night under a bridge, using a crumpled blanket as a bed.
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Jo pulled a crumpled piece of paper out of her pocket.
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She reached into her pocket and handed the clerk a crumpled ten-dollar bill.
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They found the boy crumpled on the pavement.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Behind one souvenir from a day trip to Brighton was a crumpled 100-franc note.
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Grimm tugged a crumpled purple handful from his pocket and restored some shape to the hat.
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Kirov stooped over his crumpled form, retrieving the photograph from between his fingers and tucking it safely into his inside pocket.
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Rory was crumpled head-down into the floor, his feet, above his head, still tangled in bedclothes.
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She'd come creeping back again, complaining about Dad's crumpled collars and his scuffed shoes, sprucing him up.
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The bright one was moving in a silvery blur, and there were quite a few dark-furred heaps lying crumpled nearby.
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The men lay crumpled and motionless, open-mouthed, their thin legs tangled together.