crisp
adjective
(especially of food) hard but easily breakable; brittle.
had crisped
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past perfectof crisp.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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They paused, rustling maple leaves that had crisped brown from drought rather than turning yellow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
The hair had crisped upon our heads—our skins had the feel of blistering, and the air we inhaled resembled steam from the ’scape pipe of an engine.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid
Her arm rested warmly and confidently within his; the cold had made her cheeks very pink and had crisped the tendrils of her brown hair under the fur toque.
From The Crimson Tide A Novel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
He recalled the feelers that had touched his face yesterday, the searing heat of the aura that before that had crisped off the hair above his ear.
From The Buttoned Sky by Geoff St. Reynard
"He will go to-day," he said of a flaming maple after a night of frost which had crisped the white arches of the grass in his dooryard.
From The Copy-Cat and Other Stories by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
