Example Sentences

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Not long ago, Actress Dina Merrill, 41, discovered that her delicate skin was creasing into fine wrinkles at a rate disconcerting to any professional beauty.

From Time Magazine Archive

He noted how the soft flesh was creasing into webby folds beneath her chin, below her eyes, at the base of her wrists.

From Babbitt by Lewis, Sinclair

Fraulein's wide smile was creasing and caverning under her hat from which the veil was thrown back.

From Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 by Richardson, Dorothy Miller

He staggered back with the basket, painfully conscious all the while that it was creasing his waistcoat, and dumped it down on the study floor.

From Mike and Psmith by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

He staggered back with the basket, painfully conscious the while that it was creasing his waistcoat, and dumped it down on the study floor. 

From Mike by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)