dishevelled

Example Sentences

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On Friday, he flipped his Range Rover on a quiet residential street on Florida's Jupiter Island and the world was treated to another dishevelled mugshot of one of sport's most famous faces.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

They're dishevelled because they've just got off a bus to Glasgow, ahead of show 82.

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2026

During his second stint at the university, Tristram Hunt, the former Labour MP and now head of the V&A Museum, joked that then roommate Mr Kwarteng was "quite ungovernable and dishevelled".

From BBC • Sep. 6, 2022

Her blue eyes still retained their melting quality; and her yellow hair, dishevelled by the wind and rain, kinked more stubbornly than ever about her ears and temples.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

I shouted at her through the dishevelled blanket.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath