wrinkle
noun
a small furrow or crease in the skin, especially of the face, as from aging or frowning.
wrinkled
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past participleof wrinkle.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof wrinkle.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
wrinklenouna small furrow or crease in the skin, especially of the face, as from aging or frowning.
Example Sentences
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A wrinkled Northern elephant seal named Violet slid out of a crate and onto San Pedro’s Cabrillo Beach on a muggy morning in late August.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
The soap-bubble fantasy of Ms. Lemann’s New Orleans rather calls to mind the Hundred Acre Wood, if Christopher Robin were a gentle, dissipated loafer in a wrinkled seersucker suit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
To Martindale, the wrinkled surface looked exactly like fossilized microbial mats.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 3, 2026
"I'm sick and I don't even have the money to buy medication," she said, empty boxes in her wrinkled hands.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
She watched her dad and Mira together, his thick head of dark hair bent close to her wispy white curls, his young but weathered face and her old, wrinkled one carrying matching lively expressions.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
