Example Sentences

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Primroses patterned the turf, and already ferns were uncrumpling their fronds.

From Carnival by MacKenzie, Compton

In spring the copse is full of tender points of green, uncrumpling and uncurling.

From The Altar Fire by Benson, Arthur Christopher

But when triumphs have no savour, when the cheek grows pale and the eye darkens, then the dark chrysalis opens, and the rainbow wings begin to spread and glow, uncrumpling to the suns of paradise.

From The Altar Fire by Benson, Arthur Christopher

The copse was green under foot, full of fresh, uncrumpling leaves.

From Beside Still Waters by Benson, Arthur Christopher

He turned away, still crumpling and uncrumpling a handful of leaves which he had torn from the wall.

From The Voyage Out by Woolf, Virginia