pucker
verb (used with or without object)
to draw or gather into wrinkles or irregular folds, as material or a part of the face; constrict.
had puckered
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past perfectof pucker.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The long immersion had puckered and bleached their skin, so that in the relatively low light of the nursery their freckles appeared black.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
He had puckered up the edges of the hole like the neck of a bag, and had tied the thread around it.
From When a Man Marries by Rinehart, Mary Roberts
At mention of Cassidy, Gillin, whose cheeks had puckered into dimples at Curran's badinage, grew grave again.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
The frown with which Elizabeth Twitcher's suggestion had puckered his brow faded from it slowly, as the excellence of the chop he was eating soothed him.
From The Loudwater Mystery by Jepson, Edgar
Her even brows had puckered, and the man knew that tears, real tears of sympathy, were not far off.
From The Man in the Twilight by Cullum, Ridgwell
