Example sentences for: crumpled

How can you use “crumpled” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • On the shingle at the back of the zawn lay a crumpled black car and a bright pink fishing buoy, small as toys against the boulders.

  • A few weeks after that fateful call from Linda, I met the crumpled, rumpled, and I was soon to learn, occasionally hysterical Isikoff.

  • But fortunately, I have a copy of yesterday's New York Daily News crumpled up in my gym bag.

  • Remember the hands, calloused and sunburned,of the Quumran scribes, seated at a cave's mouth,negotiating light that dawn brought backwith the promise of deliverance.Shadow and light, black fireon white fire, the unswerving word,conferring a sacred indifferenceto an urban, merely visual appeal.The caves, dark sockets in a cliff wall,return no one's gaze today,even if they once did seea mountain range of crumpled felt,castiron eagles fixed on approaching spears,and a southbound Jordan feeding the samefluid body, ever moremineral, ever heavier with salt.

  • "At first, the passing bicyclist thought the crumpled form lashed to a ranch fence was a scarecrow," began the initial New York Times dispatch.


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