Sentence examples for the puckering from inspiring English sources
verb
To pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.
- 1914 The conduct of the white strangers it was that caused him the greatest perturbation. He puckered his brows into a frown of deep thought. — Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 13.
Much to my surprise, I ended up buying a yellow striped shirt ($67.50, from $135) — seersucker without the puckering — even though there are only a few days left to wear it this year.
These phenomena are explained by the puckering effect of graphene [9 11].
The use of Diez-parameters into the calculations is fully implemented by using equation 6 for the calculation of exocyclic torsion angles out of the puckering parameters.
Physical examination revealed a swollen right shoulder with puckering of skin at the anterior aspect and localised ecchymosis at the puckering site (Fig. 1).
The appearance of skin puckering is analogous to the puckering observed in paediatric supracondylar humeral fractures of the extension type with the distal spike of the proximal fragment buttonholing through the brachialis.
The results indicate that dispersion effects have a significant influence on the molecular conformation, although packing effects likely determine the magnitude of the puckering about one of the nitrogens (N1) and give a crystal conformation closer to a theoretical local minimum than to the global minimum potential energy, which are calculated to differ by only 6.7 kJ/mol at 298 K.
Jose Arroyo, 50, a messenger, pointed at the puckered tips of his fingers.
The little weird creatures in the movie with the puckered heads certainly look as if they could use some hydration.
He removes the greatcoat, unpeels the layers, seeks out the scars, mental and physical, the amnesia, the puckered flesh, the stitch marks.
It was an anxious time, because now I was becoming more and more convinced that the puckered skin meant something was wrong.
That initial vowel made itawkward-not the rounded Puerto Rican "u" nor the puckered, sharpEnglish "u," but a sound halfway in between, a strangled diphthong.
