CREASE in a Sentence

Learn CREASE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

31 example sentences for CREASE, such as:

1. The bullet merely creased his shoulder.
2. She smoothed the creases from her skirt.
3. He cut across the crease from the left side.
4. He ironed a crease down the front of each trouser leg.
5. She had lots of deep creases at the corners of her eyes.

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 Meanings and Examples of CREASE
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crease
 n.  line made by pressing, folding, or wrinkling
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  En I reck'n de wives quarrels considable; en dat 'crease de racket.'
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV.
2  You've kept it folded too long, and the goods is all gone along the crease.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
3  A crooked smile, like a Malay crease, writhed across the face of one of the women.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
4  Now his forehead would pucker into deep folds and his eyebrows were lifted, then his eyebrows would descend and deep wrinkles would crease his cheeks.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
5  Within the envelope there was a piece of folded paper, grimy from the dirty pocket in which it had been carried, creased and ragged about the edges.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
6  If she had been seen in sleep, with the wrinkles beside her eyes stilled and the creased lids hiding the radiant irises, she would have lost her potency.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
7  Her hair was in tousled strings and her face was sallow, creased.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
8  From under his creased brows he glowered with hate at the mockers.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
9  I dared not offer her the half-worn gloves, the creased handkerchief: besides, I felt it would be absurd.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
10  This doublet and hose, though new, were creased, like traveling clothes for a long time packed in a portmanteau.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
11  He was thin and sallow faced and his yellow eyes were watery and sunken in creases of loose flesh.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
12  She knew that such emotions leave lines on the face as well as in the character, and she had meant to take warning by the little creases which her midnight survey had revealed.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
13  As Selden turned away, he noticed the dark flush on Trenor's face, the unpleasant moisture of his intensely white forehead, the way his jewelled rings were wedged in the creases of his fat red fingers.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
14  He had a golf jacket of jersey, worn through at the creases in the sleeves.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
15  So, as he stood carefully stroking his umbrella, and folding and patting down all the creases in it, he proceeded on with his exhortations in a general way.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence:
1  He cut across the crease from the left side.
2  He ironed a crease down the front of each trouser leg.
3  The bullet merely creased his shoulder.
4  She had lots of deep creases at the corners of her eyes.
5  She smoothed the creases from her skirt.