Example Sentences

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Now 90, the actress turns up as a key character’s elder incarnation in the film’s final stages, bearings deep reserves of accumulated sadness and regret in her creviced expression and clear but fragile line readings.

From The Guardian • Jan. 9, 2020

By the late 1960s, he had gone heavy-duty, creating thick, creviced topographies of paint poured on horizontal unstretched canvases soon designated the “Elephant Skin” series.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2018

Adrienne Kane, the author of “The United States of Bread,” explained that it’s a basic yeast roll with a deeply creviced crust that is made with a topping of rice flour, sugar, yeast and water.

From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2015

There was the bald roll and wrinkle of creviced hills, Black Place III, suggesting the convolutions of a human brain.

From Time Magazine Archive

His cheeks were creviced, his forehead furrowed, his silver eyebrows grew in fat tufts.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson