unwrinkle
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of unwrinkle
Example Sentences
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Theory’s new pants promise to repel water and dirt, wick away perspiration, quickly unwrinkle, stretch for comfort and cool the wearer down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2016
San Francisco's family-owned Levi Strauss & Co., the behemoth of blue jeans, has a new wrinkle-or, rather, an unwrinkle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hence the Latin phrase, exporrigere frontem— to unwrinkle the brow—means, to be cheerful or merry.
From The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Darwin, Charles
The eyebrows and lashes had disappeared; the skin, grown hard, could not unwrinkle.
From Beatrix by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
The April rain-drops tinkle In cuckoo-cups of gold, And warm south winds unwrinkle The buds the peach-boughs hold.
From Child Songs of Cheer by Inglis, Antoinette
His clean-shaven face is ruddy and, excepting a divot between his eyebrows, unwrinkled.
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2023
Stephanie, still fresh and unwrinkled in her red dress, black hair smooth, sunglasses pushed up on her head, chatted in the midst of all of us, the weight of the day lifting.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2021
When Dodie commented on his unwrinkled, youthful-looking hands, he held up a finger and said, “Black don’t crack.”
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019
They’re unwrinkled young men who began this decade playing football together for that 326-year-old football coaching conservatory, William & Mary.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 10, 2019
He had deep blue eyes with large pupils and an unwrinkled face.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
When you pass out, you become cut off from your experience and the return feels like an unwrinkling of the senses.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2022
In his office, at home and on his travels, Mr. Bratton keeps with him a steamer for instant unwrinkling, Mr. Miller said.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2016
Yes," he replied, without unwrinkling his old face, "I saw it in the papers.
From The Web of Life by Herrick, Robert
Roman by birth, in appearance and character, his inexhaustible Southern wit often succeeded in unwrinkling the brow of his young companion.
From The Carlovingian Coins Or The Daughters of Charlemagne. A Tale of the Ninth Century by Sue, Eugène
Gingerly she lifted the cover and drew out two slips of paper folded, then unwrinkling them on her knee she looked down and gasped, while a wave of brighter crimson swept over her face.
From Peggy Parsons at Prep School by Sharp, Annabel
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