"crushed paper" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it as a noun to refer to a pile of paper that has been crushed into a small space. For example, "The little boy was proud of the crushed paper he had managed to fit into the tiny box."
Scraps of fabric and gift wrapping pour from plastic trash bags, mixed in among crushed paper Pepsi cups and cracker boxes.
I was sure that the races I had run with the streets covered in crushed paper cups and tired cops yelling at me to get on the sidewalk were behind me.
Mr. Mangin celebrates the little things — the pine-tar rags, the bubble gum wrappers, the catchers' masks, the crushed paper cups — in his book "Instant Baseball," a photo essay of the 2012 season produced entirely with Instagram.
Fans, some tossing their torn-up scorecards and crushed paper cups on to the pitch, have turned out to see the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers compete for the National League pennant.
Photographing chewing gum is not entirely out of character for Mr. Penn, who raised a ruckus in the 1970's with his elegant photographs of inelegant models: cigarette butts, crushed paper cups, used ticket stubs and other street trash.
Alex sees his mother sitting in the midst of the remains of a picnic, paper plates and crushed paper cups, bread crusts in a big tin biscuit-box, a banana skin rudely splayed, a bottle with the dregs of milky tea in it sunk at a drunken angle in the sand.
Use wadded newspapers or crushed papers to fill empty spaces of boxes or cartons.
He crushed the paper coffee cup and threw it away.
I saw him crush a paper cup once as well".
And just as the camera closes in on the morning newspaper rustling woefully at the end of the drive, a beat-up Mustang convertible careers up, crushing the paper beneath its wheels.
Try not crushing the paper.
