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• He fell flat on his face and everyone just creased up!From the entry crease up
• You're not going out wearing that creased shirt, are you?From the entry creased
• The last scene creased me up.From the entry crease up
• Atopic patients with ichthyosis vulgaris often have keratosis pilaris and hyperlinear, exaggerated palm creases.2015, Thomas P. Habif, Clinical Dermatology, →ISBN, page 165. From the entry hyperlinear
• You have seen catering trucks: shiny stainless steel that is waffled with creases that look like diamonds.2007, Paul Ferrara, Flash of Eden, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 38. From the entry waffled
• She’s crumpled the photograph in her fist, adding new, nongeometric creases to the ones already there.1999, Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist, Fleet (2017), page 139. From the entry nongeometric
• It's disgusting but I'm creased!" one said.2023 May 4, Zara Woodcock, “Eagle-eyed I'm A Celeb fans spot moment Joes Swash's fake tan DISSOLVES in grim trial”, in Mirror Online. From the entry creased
• Naturally, the river wasn't wrinkled or creased at all— wrong words, implying something unfluid like skin, something unenduring, prey to age.2019, Margaret Laurence, The Diviners. From the entry imply
• Fred's eyes have creases round them and his face looks thinner, shadowed by a chinful of stubble, but he's undeniably good-looking.2013, Emlyn Rees, Josie Lloyd, The Boy Next Door, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry chinful
• Each object—square, rectangle, or ortholinear river—receives a particular pattern of mountain and valley creases, as shown in Figure 12.38.2012, Robert J. Lang, Origami Design Secrets: Mathematical Methods for an Ancient Art, page 453. From the entry ortholinear
• The umpire believed, mistakenly, that it was a bump ball and Boucher was allowed to remain at the crease.2005, David Fraser, Cricket and the Law: The Man in White is Always Right, →ISBN, page 302. From the entry bump ball
• He smiled again, easily, dimples creasing his cheeks, and a tiny fanwork of lines crinkled the corners of his dark eyes.1999, Anne Marie Winston, Lovers' Reunion, Silhouette Books, published 1999, →ISBN. From the entry fanwork
• That's put a crease in his brand-new suit.1987, David Leland, Wish You Were Here, spoken by Lynda Mansell (Emily Lloyd). From the entry up the duff
• He hung his coat over a chair-back and folded the crease in his pants for pressure under his mattress.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 191. From the entry chairback
• There were safety and information posters on the walls, rips and creases showing that they'd been liberated from their original points of fixture.2023 September 22, HarryBlank, “Off Track”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 25 May 2024. From the entry bric-a-brac
• The tavern was absolutely slammed, but we finally found a crease at the bar where we could sidle up to and order a pint.2016 September 8, George S. Fleetwood, Put Another Pin in the Map: The Interesting Places I’ve Seen and the Food I’ve Eaten, AuthorHouse…. From the entry slammed
• Nine months in England had restored his bony face to a pleasing wheyness, bleached the sun creases in his slender music-mastering hands.2013, Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover. From the entry wheyness
• Wang also encouraged the use of the "Dracula sneeze," or sneezing into the crease of your elbow as you bring your arm to your face.2009 September 9, Patrick Cowles, “H1N1 plagues campuses”, in The Daily Titan, volume 85, number 4, California State University…. From the entry Dracula sneeze
• This “clinching” can distort the tape by causing a series of creases or folds in the surface and may produce read errors.1985, Alvin C. Larson, Computer Operator (AFSC 51150), page 87. From the entry clinching
• Jerry, who kept the creases sharp and clean in the tan workpants, and several small Jerrys, whom Sawyer & Sloat invariably remembered at Christmas.1984, Stephen King, Peter Straub, The Talisman, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, pages 169–170. From the entry jerry
• He will call down his secretary if the latter's trousers are not well creased or his shoes not polished to a sparkle.1946, A. A. Brill, Lectures on Psychoanalytic Psychiatry, Alfred Knopf, page 211. From the entry call down
• They were not flat and featureless as you might have expected them to be; already they had all the lines and creases known to palmistry.1941, H. G. Wells, You Can’t Be Too Careful, London: Secker & Warburg, Book 1, Chapter 1. From the entry palmistry
• He stood there almost voiceless, lumpishly ugly with his face yellow and creased after the sleepless night, and his birthmark like a smear of dirt.1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 19”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers…. From the entry lumpishly
• His shirt showed big blotches of moisture, and the sweat was rolling in clear drops along the creases in his brown neck.1923, Willa Cather, One of Ours, Book One, Chapter 5. From the entry blotch
• Third, the cutting and creasing rules are set in the open space in the center of the chase, filling in with metal or wood furniture.1920, Robert F. Salade, chapter IX, in How Paper Boxes are Made. From the entry chase
• Levi's brows creased together in dumb stupor as Reiko stepped over the still-prone figure to ziptie the guy's hands behind his back, before removing the Taser probes.2018, Tellulah Darling, Kissed Off, →ISBN. From the entry ziptie
• She was skinny and white, slight, with a drawn-in pale face, huge round unmakeupped eyes, and puffy cheeks that gave creases to her shriveled, no lipped mouth.2015, Duane Filer, Square Squire and the Journey to DreamState: Squared Version 2.0 for Teens and Young Adults. From the entry unmakeupped
• Except for his stubbled jaws and flamey eyes and creases in his face he might’ve been a kid dressed for Hallowe’en, a figure to smile at.2009, Joyce Carol Oates, Little Bird of Heaven, London: Fourth Estate, HarperCollinsPublishers, published 2010, →ISBN, page 378. From the entry flamey
• There was his left-hand head talking and sort of yapping that silly laugh of his, dead-pan, while the right-hand head was all creased up with giggle lines.2007, Frederik Pohl, Platinum Pohl. From the entry dead-pan
• Breasts are rarely pert, self-sustaining, in these pictures; they droop and sag, veinously overabundant, from bodies marked by the dimples and creases and stretchmarks of time.1996, Anne Glyn-Jones, Holding Up a Mirror: How Civilizations Decline. From the entry veinously
• He has an oval face, a pronounced hawk’s nose, deep-set, bulging eyes with bushy eyebrows separated by a deep vertical crease, and a broad mouth with fleshy lips.[1980, Helmut Brinker, Eberhard Fischer, Treasures from the Rietberg Museum, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 115, column 2. From the entry Qian
• Standing, eyes still half shut in cuddly feeted pajamas, holding onto the edge of a crib, with the creases from sleeping on the blanket in his cheeks.1973, Babs H[odges] Deal, The Crystal Mouse, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, pages 30–31. From the entry feeted
• The beef trust was out in full force – these landladies were all shaped up like barrels, wherever there wasn't a crease in their meat there was a dimple.1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Tea Don’t Do You that Way”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 2…. From the entry beef trust

Meaning of crease

1. noun A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
2. noun One of the white lines drawn on the pitch to show different areas of play; especially the popping crease, but also the bowling crease and the return crease.
3. noun The circle around the goal, which no offensive players may enter during play, unless after scoring.

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How do you use crease in a sentence?

Crease is used as a noun and verb. For example: “His pants had a nice sharp crease.”

What is a short sentence with crease?

“He creases at his own joke.”

What does crease mean?

Crease means a line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.