Sentence example with the word 'ruffle'

ruffle

abrade, bordering, crumple, drumbeat, flute, hurry-scurry, nudzh, provoke, shock, tom-tom, wrinkle

Definition n. a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim

Last update: May 9, 2016


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ruffle.   [verb]

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Nothing would ruffle his feathers and he had a very acerbic sense of humor.   [Please select]

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The Curate had returned to the grey old church, and rural life pursued its slumbrous course, scarce ruffled by rumours of maritime war, or plague, or fire.   [Please select]

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Marifleur seems to promise all that there is of the most graceful and airy in a ruffled sleeve and a ribbon shoulder-knot.   [Please select]

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So that, when the Admiral came home again, his calm and--in its fair state--gentle nature was ruffled by the prosperity of the wicked.   [Please select]

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Captain Zebedee shook his head, and the golden sheaf of his Olympian beard ruffled and crisped, as to an adverse wind.   [Please select]

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Because, where the ruffle of the land stream merges into the heavier disquietude of sea, slopes of shell sand and white gravel give welcome pillow to the weary keel.   [Please select]

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"I'll flee the falcon,"--(so the small cannon was called,)--"I'll flee the falcon whene'er your honour gies command; my certie, she'll ruffle their feathers for them."   [Please select]

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