Her voice was like the crumpling of paper.

The crumpling could produce features such as mountain ranges.

We bashed into the car with a resounding crumpling of metal.

The hull maintained its basic shape, but there was some crumpling and a number of seams had started.

There was a muffled clatter: the crumpling of a human frame against concrete.

This successfully prevents the crumpling of cigarettes when kept in a person's pocket or handbag.

Uncle Martin contemplated a new crumpling of his long-suffering cap before he answered.

Even as they watched, the first faint splash marked an impact, followed by others, and then the crumpling of the canopies.

Large deformations (for example the crumpling of sheet metal parts)

Much sighing, tearing of hair and crumpling of manuscript pages.

The realistic sound of bacon frying is the crumpling of cellophane.

The crumpling had been done carefully.

-and some more crumpling of paper and waving of arms, could have been helpful.

Convolute bedding forms when complex folding and crumpling of beds or laminations occur.

The crumpling of fenders and the tearing of metal echoed off the buildings and out into the park.

The impact itself was unspectacular: a soft crack as that big skull hit a sharp volcanic rock, the strange limp crumpling of the body.

For a time I resumed the scribbling, the crumpling and the throwing away and by that time twenty minutes had elapsed.

I followed his description-but it filled me with awe, and dread, for I could not see how life or Mind could survive such a crumpling!

Then, suddenly, he shuddered, throwing up his arms and arching his back-then crumpling as blood gouted from his chest.

What comes after our reproductive years is "more like the random crumpling of what had been neatly folded origami, or the erosion of stone.

Grandmasters and computer experts alike went from praising the match as a great experiment to smacking their foreheads in amazement at the champion's abrupt crumpling.

The character of a box girder is to resist torsional twisting, so a composite face built up of them is also good at resisting crumpling.

The avian creatures scattered, some crumpling and falling, some beating frantically away to the side, some disappearing, balled in fright, into the cloud.

Half-way along the 2 kilometres of vineyards towards Dizy, a crumpling of the contours twists the ground into a full, frontal, southern exposure.

Thus isometry is simply bending and twisting of a surface without internal crumpling or tearing, in other words without extra tension, compression or shear.

He crumpled to the ground and did not get up.

For a moment his face crumpled, then he went on.

The old man crumpled as if I had hit him in the face.

They just walked away and left him crumpled on the ground.

Then he looked in the car, saw my father crumpled up and started to speak.

He had seemed crumpled up, like a piece of paper.

The next thing he knew, he'd crumpled to the floor.

Men, women and children crumpled to the ground in pain.

He went on like this for a few minutes and then crumpled to the ground.

I looked at the first piece, the one not crumpled.

About this time they both kind of crumpled to the floor.

This one was crumpled in the middle of the hall.

A face crumpled with sleep looked in through the door.

The front of his car is crumpled into a tree.

Then another, until he was crumpled on the bottom step.

He came back a few minutes later, very white and the letter crumpled in his eyes.

He pulled with it like child's play and crumpled to the ground.

He crumpled as if made from paper when they both struck home.

Instead, he crumpled back into his hole in the ground.

Two men lay crumpled on the floor just inside the room.

The plane crumpled up much as the others had done.

She saw an older man who looked to be hurt crumpled against a wall.

To his surprise, her face crumpled and she turned away from him again.

I saw it land, and the man's legs give under him as he crumpled.

I looked for him to crumple up and go down.