ruffled
Example Sentences
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Ruffled feathers are not unusual in the spring.
From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022
Ruffled by Rifts, it does appear that rifts are all around you — or at the very least, you are in the minority of being willing to get vaccinated in your family.
From Salon • May 13, 2021
“Annoyance stokes him, sends him forth, gives him purpose. Ruffled, he becomes electric, full of play and possibility. There is magnificence in his every irritation.”
From Seattle Times • Jul. 25, 2020
Mr. Ruschmann, 26, is a senior assistant superintendent at Ruffled Feathers, a Pete Dye golf course in Lemont, Ill. The groom graduated cum laude from Ohio State University.
From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2019
‘Quite the little gentleman—from the waist up. Silver buttons, eh? Ruffled shirt?’
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
