Sentence examples for crumple up from inspiring English sources
"crumple up" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it in the context of physical objects like paper or cloth being folded and scrunched up into a ball. Example sentence: He crumpled up the paper and tossed it into the bin.
verb
To become crumpled or messily folded up.
Crumple up, and roll right down the hill!
"I'm like a Dixie cup that God will crumple up and throw away when he's done with it".
If you're heart doesn't crumple up as a pale, fragile Kate Winslet kisses poor old frozen Leo goodbye, forever, well maybe you have no heart".
"Cars have crumple zones programmed to crumple up and absorb the energy of a crash, so how can you program a helmet to do that?
If you made a typo and had to crumple up a piece of paper and rewrite a memo, you would not be expected to pay for that sheet of paper out of your own pocket (even if it were a sheet of solid-gold paper, which is pretty fancy stationery for a memo and which would probably jam the fax machine).
Is it O.K. to pick your teeth with a business card that has just been handed to you? Answer: If you have to ask, you may as well crumple up this newspaper, toss it to the floor of your train and go back to bellowing into your cellphone.
Make yourself some sheets of parchment by crumpling up some normal printer paper, un-crumpling it, and soaking it in regular tea overnight.
And those over there, the crumpled up, unshaven, unkempt ones?
The others are crumpled up in the bottom of her laundry hamper.
After the meal, leave your napkin crumpled up on the table rather than folding it neatly.
The advance crumpled up on the slopes of Souville, and another German attack on August 1 failed.
