There was a guy behind me, and he whopped me on the shoulder with something and crumpled me down. |
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Out of the corner of my eye, I could see the pages crumpled against the blue tile, but I didn't care. |
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He clenched his fists tighter and the metal crumpled in his hands like paper. |
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He crumpled up the juvenile green and yellow paper wrappings and tossed them into a plastic sack. |
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There were torn posters lying crumpled up on the floor and dirty clothes strewn all around. |
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She looked at the wrinkled shirt, crumpled into a ball, lying on the floor. |
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The island is crumpled by mountains and creased by deep ravines just begging to be explored. |
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Dayra stood, menacing as always, and stared down at the crumpled mass lying on a pile of decaying straw in front of her, chained to the wall. |
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In cases of severe growth inhibition, the wings appeared crumpled with strong structural deformation. |
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And then he glanced at his own almost crumpled gray shirt and the plain scruffy jeans. |
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I inevitably ended up crumpled on the floor after receiving a dodgeball to the kidney. |
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It broke into a thousand tiny pieces, and my mother crumpled to the ground. |
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Rummaging in her evening bag, she withdrew a crumpled pack of cigarettes and a wilted book of matches. |
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Referee Alfred counted him out at two minutes and 51 seconds of the fourth, by which time Iron Mike had rusted into a crumpled heap. |
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Erik shook his head in disgust as he looked at his brother crumpled on the floor and looking so pitiful. |
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I was expecting Stephen to lash out at her, but he just crumpled down to the floor, a single tear falling down his face. |
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The Firth of Tay glittered like crumpled silver foil, and the city shone with an inner light. |
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Jack's crumpled white shirt was rolled up around his elbows and his black pants were littered with cigarette ash. |
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My dad crumpled like a wet Kleenex, horrified at himself, and slunked away. |
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Tom crumpled to the ground, bleeding heavily from the right side of his face. |
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He yanked it free and tossed it aside, watching in satisfaction as she slowly crumpled into a heap on the floor. |
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No longer awash with big-boy bravado, they have crumpled into sobbing heaps. |
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I attacked and found myself either crumpled at his feet or piled in a corner. |
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I just crumpled to the floor in the hall and came round literally feeling like seconds had passed since I took the hit. |
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The other family's car, an Audi, was a write-off, with its bonnet tragically crumpled and flames licking away from beneath the chassis. |
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My voice must have broken his trance, because his face crumpled and he turned away from both the children and me. |
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At this, Darcy's face crumpled and she took the seat next to her daughters, dropping her head into her hands. |
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Her face crumpled as tears spilled over, running down her cheeks in a torrent. |
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The watery blue eyes, peeking at you under those bushy eyebrows, the face crumpled into resignation. |
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As I came downstairs, my right knee gave way, and I fell in a crumpled heap at the bottom. |
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Afterwards, fuelled by chocolate Santa heads, I would sit in a nest of crumpled, torn wrapping paper, impatient for the new year to move quickly. |
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She stared at me, her face crumpled by the expression of hurt upon her face. |
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She crumpled it up in her hand and threw it to the floor in disgust, then sighed deeply. |
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He handed over the receiver, watched as his boy's face crumpled, and didn't even have to ask why. |
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Her face crumpled and tears fell silently, as she clasped her husband's arm. |
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At this, Sarah's face crumpled, and she stood up with arms stretched out to Annie as she used to in the past. |
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His shock registered immediately, but when he took in my tears and the letter in my hand, his face crumpled. |
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With this rhythmic cry, Duan, in his crumpled old blue suit, pushes a benchlike cart along the street. |
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A pit littered with chai cups, some made of plastic, now crushed and crumpled, others made of clay, already dissolving under the dew. |
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She sorted through her wallet, phone, and earphones until she came across a piece of crumpled paper. |
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Washed and crumpled cotton, silk and linen contribute to a tone of ease and effortless femininity. |
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So the crumpled, unshaven look is strictly last season and those who are with it are found in designer gear and sports shoes. |
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Despite my silence, she could tell I didn't quite agree with her, and delved inside her layers of clothing and pulled out a crumpled photograph. |
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There are cans of coke on the floor and a road map crumpled up in the glove compartment which won't close all the way. |
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But, as Beth entered, the pity in her eyes melted Alicia's cool reserve and she dissolved into a crumpled heap on her bed. |
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A boy who was being bullied was so angry that he wrote a hit list, then crumpled it up and threw it away. |
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One, a work in progress, showed an old-style baby carriage, leather and steel, crumpled and tilted, in a small dark stone building. |
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He looked dishevelled in old, crumpled clothes, his hair matted and his lips cracking, his tatty shirt a poor defence against the biting cold. |
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On Mondays her hair is crumpled and unbrushed, she is slumped in her seat, and she looks paler than a corpse in a coffin. |
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Bill is yellowed and crumpled, with a good line in apoplectic ranting and a hard-earned smoker's cough. |
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Carefully, doing her best not to rip it, Adia pulled the crumpled piece of paper out of the hole and unfolded it. |
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There was also lined paper with scratched out math problems and crumpled sheets with the beginnings of sentences. |
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Her new season's wardrobe, the result of a bank-balance-busting trolley dash around Selfridges, remained crumpled in her suitcase. |
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He crumpled to the floor to absorb the shock of the impact and whipped around with his flashlight as the horde closed rapidly. |
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I crumpled to the ground where I lay muttering to myself about all the things I did wrong in my life. |
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Four wrecked cars were artfully strewn along the roadway, doors buckled, windshields smashed, engines crumpled. |
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I stopped beside a tumbling waterfall and enjoyed a late lunch below a rowan tree, its bright red berries outliving the crumpled yellow leaves. |
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I remember giving Bernie a big hug afterwards, as he blushingly folded away his piece of crumpled paper. |
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She would arrive late looking crumpled and haggard after a late night, with straggly hair and bleary eyes. |
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Other cabins and superstructure have long since rotted and crumpled to the seabed. |
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Fernando reached for a napkin to wipe his eyes, then noticed a crumpled wad of bills under his coffee cup. |
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He checked the hotch-potch of crumpled notes in his jacket pocket and sank into a deeper depression. |
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There are dark black fishnets underneath the white dress shirt, his tie's undone and the school blazer's lying in a crumpled heap on the floor. |
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It looked as if the cowling had simply popped open in flight and crumpled in the slipstream. |
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They too would disappear one day to leave behind an unimpressionable clean sheet bookmarked in time by a few dry and crumpled old flowers. |
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Tears poured down my face and I blew my nose in a crumpled napkin I had in my bag. |
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He tore open the package, to reveal crumpled rice paper wadded up around a much smaller box in the center of the package. |
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His crumpled body revealed brain damage, multiple fractures, bruises and abrasions. |
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His face looks like a boxer's battered glove, crumpled and creased but boyish and mischievous. |
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The phone clicked back into place as Jackie crumpled onto the floor, her composure finally breaking. |
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He picked up the bottle and shoved it into the breast pocket of his shirt, which lay crumpled on the night stand. |
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In contrast with the facile legibility of the older tower's brickwork, the metal cladding is apparently casually crumpled. |
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During this brief exchange of words, Klauss had ventured over to the crumpled picture and unfurled it. |
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Soon she would be dead, the empty shell of her body to be left crumpled in the dirt. |
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These buildings may have crumpled under the pressure of the quake, but I know for sure that the people will not buckle that easily. |
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In the '50s, he made heavily textured abstract paintings using crumpled mulberry paper and globs of oil paint. |
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Dark brown, nearly black hair was matted with blood and stuck spikily over the edges of the crumpled shirt. |
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The room was in shambles and their master laid crumpled and bleeding on the floor. |
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At this, about a dozen spitballs and crumpled up paper wads made their way towards the girl, testament to the highly bored and volatile class. |
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His hulking two-metre frame clad in crumpled checked shirt fills the doorway as he beckons towards his kingdom. |
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No starched apron-bib is sullied, no long straight gilet is crumpled, no cuff or kirtle torn or buttonless, no bold tricorne hat askew. |
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As it crumpled to the floor, Dawn kicked and kicked and kicked it until it was quite dead. |
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I went into the office to find the offender, and saw a worried woman crumpled in a chair in the corner, wearing a look of weariness and doubt. |
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I looked in the mirror and saw this crumpled old face peering back at me, dishevelled, none too clean, and in desperate need of a shave. |
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Handwritten on scraps of paper, crumpled and often stained, they may be hard to decipher at times. |
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Drowsiness overcame her, and she crumpled to the floor, letting herself sink into dark oblivion. |
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This was no pulled muscle, Ivan thought as he crumpled against the doorway he had just walked through. |
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Folded up against his green steno book was a crumpled sheet of loose-leaf paper. |
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I nodded and he stood up, gathering the styrofoam containers and empty soft drink cups and crumpled napkins. |
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If you don't want to use a squeegee, you can wipe the windows with lint-free cloth, imitation chamois, or crumpled newspapers. |
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Then the young man crumpled to the ground, with his eyes opened in shock, and his mouth gaping. |
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Shoving his hands into the pockets of his tremendously puffy jacket, he heard crinkling and pulled out a slight crumpled piece of paper. |
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The first is to place small crumpled pieces of colored tissue paper on the watercolor paper. |
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Our hood was crumpled and the fender was dented, but the engine continued to run. |
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She fumbled out a clump of crumpled paper money and one tarnished coin, and handed them to the clerk at the desk. |
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When she finished she crumpled the piece of paper into a ball and chucked it away. |
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Flipping a lighter, Peter lit the crumpled sheet and watched the flickering ball of fire slowly turn to a cinder in his hand. |
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His eyes glazed over and he crumpled in the chair like a God robbed of ichor. |
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An arrow hissed threw the air and found it's mark, the old doe fell to the ground in a crumpled heap as her eyes clouded over. |
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Coldly he clouted her and she crumpled, and Shawn barely caught her before she hit the ground. |
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After rifling through her clutch bag, she produced a crumpled letter written in an extremely neat hand. |
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I rustled through pens, crumpled pieces of paper, pencils, candy wrappers, and junk that I had no idea was even in my back pack. |
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He read the letter, then with a face of anger, crumpled it up and threw it on the ground. |
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Suddenly, the color sergeant, who carried the flag, crumpled to the ground. |
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For years physicists have wondered how a crumpled sheet can be so extraordinarily rigid. |
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He glanced over his shoulder, then spun completely around to stare at the inert body crumpled on the asphalt a few feet behind him. |
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Jules took the hint and fished out a crumpled ten-euro note from her purse. |
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What if I blocked the vents with crumpled aluminium foil and kept the hot air from escaping? |
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Others lounge around in their living rooms in a food coma, amid piles of crumpled wrapping paper. |
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Her slender form was a crumpled heap in his arms, with bruises and blood marring her creamy white skin. |
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He carries a foldaway pine stool, a well-thumbed copy of yesterday's Evening Standard and a small frying pan in a crumpled polythene bag. |
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I shook my head vigorously, crumpled the index card, and tossed it into the trash can. |
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For more insulation, put crumpled newspaper between the freezer cabinet and blankets. |
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He stared at the half-written sentence and then crumpled the paper in his hand, tossing it onto the dying fire in the fireplace. |
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The jug-eared Englishman meanwhile dressed down in a winter jacket, crumpled looking jeans and black trainers. |
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Taking out her slightly crumpled test paper, she hurried to the living room. |
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She crumpled up the paper she'd been absently doodling on and threw it into the wastebasket. |
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He reached into his pack and pulled out two dirty crumpled sheets of paper. |
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Finn crumpled the paper and threw it into the garbage can five feet away from us. |
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I threw the pen down in frustration and crumpled the paper in one swift motion. |
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I crumpled the empty paper bag and tossed it in the garbage next to the fridge. |
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I crumpled up my empty juice box and stared at it for a minute before putting it back into my paper bag. |
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Five steps up the dirt path, my trachea crumpled, my vertebrae fused, and the small muscles in my back revolted and spasmed. |
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A concrete car park, several apartment buildings and part of a hospital unexpectedly crumpled despite their steel frames. |
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He muttered darkly about his outraged modesty as he threw on a crumpled white shirt and a black pair of trousers before heading downstairs to the sitting room. |
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Steck crumpled to the moraine, and it looked as though he'd be bludgeoned to death. |
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He crumpled to the ground under a flurry of fists and boots, and as he recalls, no one around him tried to stop the attack. |
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He snatched up the thrown chair and crashed it down onto the head of a charging older black man, who crumpled into a heap. |
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He reached forward and crumpled up the timetable for his last quarter. |
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The scientists further found that the crumpled ball displayed a phenomenon known as hysteresis, in which the effect of forces acting upon an object lags behind its cause. |
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Within seconds, he had crumpled onto the ground like a lifeless rag doll. |
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This explains the crumpled look of his beautiful red velvet suit paired with cowboy boots and a flowery style shirt. |
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The back end was completely crumpled and the rear window was shattered. |
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An aide later found it crumpled in the general's shirt pocket. |
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Yesterday's shirt is currently a crumpled ball in my laundry basket. |
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Depending on the severity of a collision you will end up with crumpled doors, shattered glass or even bumpers and skirts dragging in a trail of sparks behind you. |
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There was a small hand held tape-recorder stuck in the rewind position and a crumpled piece of paper with a phone number and address lying on top of the whole pile. |
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To create the crumpled paper, antique the paper with the ink pads, crinkle it up, smooth it out and then dip it into a mixture of white glue and water. |
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Then, on the morning after Christmas in 1996, John found JonBenet crumpled in the wine cellar with a garrote sunk round her neck. |
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A thin line of smoke started to spiral up from the ruptured engine as Ian scrambled round the back of the car, catching his trouser leg on the crumpled rear bumper. |
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It smelled of mothballs and camphor, the elemental scent of my homeland, and out came crumpled wads of tissue paper containing miniscule treasures. |
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I fished a crumpled copy of my class schedule from my navy suit jacket. |
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Within the blink of an eye, the sword hilt had been lowered upon the back of her head, and she crumpled neatly into a pile unconscious without so much as a snivel. |
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She slid out, landing in crumpled pile on the floor, squirming to get under the bed, her white, cotton nightgown pressing to her body as she tried to escape. |
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However, when I'm in the middle of my second bullet point, I am interrupted by a crumpled ball of paper that's just been thrown onto my side of the desk. |
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He spent nothing on himself or on luxuries, and cared little about his appearance, always wearing a dated, crumpled, violet suit, frilled cuffs and a three cornered hat. |
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Visiting him in his room at the raffish Chelsea Hotel, I noticed that there was a crumpled cigarette package under the bed. |
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She dropped it in quickly, and then crumpled the note and envelope up. |
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I crumpled the note as best I could, and threw it over the wall. |
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Across the region, residents dealt with downed branches, knocked-over trees, malfunctioning traffic signals, leaky roofs, crumpled carports and battered mobile homes. |
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Dirty clothes were strewn hither and yon, along with crumpled paper balls. |
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The magnificent Church of Our Lady of Victories was moved from its foundations and all smaller buildings in the church compound crumpled like a pack of cards. |
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He crumpled up the paper in his hands, only to unfold it again. |
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I accepted it and crumpled the energy bar wrapper in my other hand. |
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An empty can of beer crumpled underneath my foot as I sat down. |
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I was sandwiched between two seats that had crumpled into each other. |
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The frame twisted and bent and the car crumpled like cardboard. |
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My retinas were crumpled up like a piece of rag, and I could see nothing. |
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He eventually left his victim crumpled and unconscious on the ground. |
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His comrades had been studying the green leaves with interest but had jumped half a foot into the air when their companion crumpled to the ground. |
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He lay crumpled on a ruined street of a once high class district. |
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Sarah crumpled into a heap of sobs against the door after he left. |
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There was a young woman lying crumpled on the floor beside the wall. |
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Her shock wore off and her face quickly crumpled into tears. |
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His right eyebrow shot up as his face crumpled up in disbelief. |
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Dian's face crumpled, tears welled up in her eyes and threatened to fall. |
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When she saw me, her face crumpled and she slammed her window shut. |
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She looked at the crumpled ticket that was crushed in her hand. |
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At the rear of the craft struts integral to the ship's docking facilities were bent and crumpled as it hit stern-first, gouging a huge rut through the earth. |
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He slouched in his chair, clutching a crumpled charcoal blazer in his arms, and kept fidgeting. |
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Nervously he tried to straighten his crumpled lab coat and shirt collar. |
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A woman who first seems to be carrying a patch of cloud-mottled sky in her lap proves to be clutching a blue net tote containing crumpled tissue and mail. |
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The main focus is a line of shacks shaded by crumpled metal roofs. |
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Wipe windows with lintless cloth, paper towels or crumpled newspapers. |
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A besuited man wept openly, scrubbing his eyes with crumpled tissue. |
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He crumpled onto the floor in front of his bed and I hit him again, bap! |
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The stalk continues downward and is crumpled into a mangled pile on the ground, where it usually is left to become organic matter for the soil. |
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Open-handed, he walked steadily down the slope, stepping over the crumpled bodies on the blood-damp grass. |
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Chesterton usually wore a cape and a crumpled hat, with a swordstick in hand, and a cigar hanging out of his mouth. |
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When the champion landed a vicious left-handed kidney punch early in the fourth, Azzaoui crumpled to the canvas. |
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There was a heap of little crumpled bills which, with Felicie's griffonage, Helen had thrown into her table-drawer. |
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Forty years ago the crumpled and complex Mobile Belt of Newfoundland would have been considered a typical result of a deformed geosyncline. |
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The crumpled pieces of paper were used as packing because they took up much more space that way than when they were flat. |
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What was it about Charlie Resnick that made him so special? With his shirt still crumpled from the wash and his tie knotted arse-about-face. |
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New Delhi Clad in a crumpled cotton sari and loosely tied hair, social activist Medha Patkar exuberates an indomitable spirit. |
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We could see the big crumpled Mercedes sedan, but not very well. |
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I ripped the phones off my head, fluffed my hair, and tossed the crumpled lyric sheet in the garbage can before strolling into the control room like a queen. |
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Botheration! How she had crumpled her skirt, kneeling in that idiotic way. |
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She was still wearing the crushed and crumpled morning-dress of balzarine that she had put on in her bedroom at the Abuthnots' bungalow in Delhi Cantonment... how long ago? |
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Situated atop a shipping crate were prints featuring converging stripes, but these were crumpled to the extent that they denied use value as framable commodities. |
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Through the open door Clement sees the girls in the shady shelter shed drinking daintily from the bubble taps and dabbing at their mouths with their crumpled white hankies. |
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Through the week, some sticky notes were crumpled up and thrown away, revisited and rewritten, but others were proudly carried to the accomplishment wall. |
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As the man crumpled forward, Snow took a further step with his right foot and brought the pole down backhanded with all his power into the right side of the man's head. |
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She thought for a second he'd come to give her a hug, but instead he held up the crumpled letter from school, which she must have shoved behind the breadbin. |
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He called down to his belayer, but there was nothing the belayer could do but hope that the young Collins would not momentarily be if crumpled at his feet. |
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