wrinkle
noun
a small furrow or crease in the skin, especially of the face, as from aging or frowning.
were wrinkling
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past progressiveof wrinkle.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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In another moment four boys were wrinkling their foreheads as they bent over the cryptic strings of letters.
From The Secret Wireless or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol by Lewis E. Theiss
They were held tight to his sides by strands which no longer seemed slimy, but were wrinkling as they dried.
From Key Out of Time by Andre Norton
But when they came out the child carried nothing more than a wicker cage containing two pink-eyed white rabbits that were wrinkling their noses furiously.
From Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson
A rain was falling, and we saw the drops fall into plashes, and the plashes were wrinkling under their blows.
From Twenty-six and One and Other Stories by Maksim Gorky
And soon again Edith's smooth pretty brows were wrinkling absorbedly.
From His Family by Ernest Poole
