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
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 Edgar Jepson
His eyes strayed uneasily from one object in the yard to another, while the frown of perplexity that had puckered his brow since Asshlin's death reappeared more prominently than before.
From The Gambler A Novel by Katherine Cecil Thurston
Of course, she remembered him, she said, and the toys and flowers, and told how comically he had puckered his brow in argumentation with her father.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
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 Lewis Wingfield
