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    Use "crimp" in a sentence

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    crimp


    crimped


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    crimps


    1. doostEr hadn't really signed up for this responsibility with Estwig, in fact the boy did crimp his style at times, but he couldn't help feeling the responsibility


    2. Of course, the fact that he and Ava weren’t sharing a cabin any more put a crimp in his social plans


    3. Then he would pass it on to Johnny who would crimp the neck of the detonator which held the fuse in Johnny then passed it on to Eli who would push the fuse trough a hole that had been made in the lid and down into the explosive leaving about four inches sticking out the top he would then push the lid on and stack the tin with the others we had made


    4. Along with the depression she suffered, it was a real crimp in her daily activities


    5. The mishap was putting a crimp in the free-wheeling nature of our trip


    6. Crimp all poly


    7. if there is a crimp ring not sealed leaking out


    8. On lightly oiled baking sheet, press chilled dough into 9 x 12 inch rectangle, crimp edges to form a rim


    9. Be sure the edge of the tub does not crimp the hose


    10. Place over the top of the pie, crimp edges with a fork or use your fingers

    11. And you, Jeb, you trying to crimp this poor


    12. Trim lattice ends at edge of pan, seal with water, and crimp with


    13. It suited her exactly, and soon she began to imitate the manners and conversation of those about her, to put on little airs and graces, use French phrases, crimp her hair, take in her dresses, and talk about the fashions as well as she could


    14. 'Put yourself through your mangle, washerwoman,' she called out, 'and iron your face and crimp it, and you'll pass for quite a decent-looking Toad!'


    15. Zhaspahr Clyntahn’s embargo had put a major crimp into the profitable nitrates trade with the mainland, but those same nitrates were just as important for the burgeoning munitions industry


    16. “Nay, Lancelot, a most uncommon one! For the Tricks I’ve learnt in lo these last few Weeks would take the Crimp out of your flaming Locks and cause your very Toes to curl towards Heaven! There is nought common about my Strumpeting!”


    17. He can keep that money safe for a rainy day, but then the low returns on cash will crimp the fund’s results if stocks keep going up


    18. It’s amazing how the threat of twenty-five years in a federal prison puts a crimp in a promising medical career


    19. By the time peak usage season arrived in mid-summer, the market had already topped as higher prices began to substantially crimp consumption and distributors began to anticipate the slack autumn demand season


    1. Her hair was elaborately crimped, her face was quite plump, her cheeks rosy, her white eyes shining


    2. woman with dirty blond crimped hair was crying and rubbing


    3. Her hair was crimped and ironed into improbable curls which were tinted an even more improbable reddish brown colour


    4. "Hmm, I think I'll go with crimped hair-Jakkob style


    5. But thou, that other poverty--for it is of thee I am speaking now--why dost thou love to fall out with gentlemen and men of good birth more than with other people? Why dost thou compel them to smear the cracks in their shoes, and to have the buttons of their coats, one silk, another hair, and another glass? Why must their ruffs be always crinkled like endive leaves, and not crimped with a crimping iron?" (From this we may perceive the antiquity of starch and crimped ruffs


    6. That crimped, tiny cursive, each letter sloping slightly farther uphill


    7. Connector faults were a common occurrence on thin Ethernet networks because prefabricated cables were relatively rare (compared to twisted pair), and the BNC connectors were usually crimped onto the RG-58 cables by network administrators, which can be a tricky process


    8. It was a narrow, natural basin, hollowed out by the water in a clayey soil, about two feet deep, surrounded with moss and with those tall, crimped grasses which are called Henry IV


    9. It was of no avail that the pavements of Paris were there on every side, the classic and splendid hotels of the Rue de Varennes a couple of paces away, the dome of the Invalides close at hand, the Chamber of Deputies not far off; the carriages of the Rue de Bourgogne and of the Rue SaintDominique rumbled luxuriously, in vain, in the vicinity, in vain did the yellow, brown, white, and red omnibuses cross each other's course at the neighboring cross-roads; the Rue Plumet was the desert; and the death of the former proprietors, the revolution which had passed over it, the crumbling away of ancient fortunes, absence, forgetfulness, forty years of abandonment and widowhood, had sufficed to restore to this privileged spot ferns, mulleins, hemlock, yarrow, tall weeds, great crimped plants, with large leaves of pale green cloth, lizards, beetles, uneasy and rapid insects; to cause to spring forth from the depths of the earth and to reappear between those four walls a certain indescribable and savage grandeur; and for nature, which disconcerts the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly where she diffuses herself at all, in the ant as well as in the eagle, to blossom out in a petty little Parisian garden with as much rude force and majesty as in a virgin forest of the New World


    10. In early 2009, the metals markets had all fallen on hard times as recession had substantially crimped demand expectations

    11. To-day he saw all the wrinkles of her face, knew which of her teeth were false, saw the way her hair was crimped, the sharpness of her elbows, and, above all, how large her thumb-nail was and how like her father’s


    12. “Papa is not in,” a pale girl with crimped hair said, crossly, coming out into the ante-room, but, seeing a young man in a good coat, she softened


    1. Sicarius, whether curious about something he had seen outside or just aware he was crimping story hour, chose that moment to walk out of the room


    2. I spent the next couple of hours stringing beads, crimping fastenings, experimenting with different colors, half listening to the television for background noise


    3. Place on top of the pie, crimping the edges of


    4. But thou, that other poverty--for it is of thee I am speaking now--why dost thou love to fall out with gentlemen and men of good birth more than with other people? Why dost thou compel them to smear the cracks in their shoes, and to have the buttons of their coats, one silk, another hair, and another glass? Why must their ruffs be always crinkled like endive leaves, and not crimped with a crimping iron?" (From this we may perceive the antiquity of starch and crimped ruffs


    1. Steel crimps, glass shatters and tires screech


    2. You should always make sure that your lines are held tightly and totally without any problems or crimps


    3. To tell the truth he was mean in fortunes and for the most part hankered about the coffeehouses and low taverns with crimps, ostlers, bookies, Paul's men, runners, flatcaps, waistcoateers, ladies of the bagnio and other rogues of the game or with a chanceable catchpole or a tipstaff often at nights till broad day of whom he picked up between his sackpossets much loose gossip


    4. One end of wire Werner crimps around a shorn pipe standing diagonally up from the floor


    5. Now the crimps were coming out of their holes, and the sniffling gamblers who preyed on sailors


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    Synonyms for "crimp"

    crimp crimper bend crease flexure fold plication crape frizz frizzle kink kink up pinch pleat double gather

    "crimp" definitions

    an angular or rounded shape made by folding


    someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers


    a lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled


    make ridges into by pinching together


    curl tightly