ruff
Example Sentences
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You’ll find everything from red pandas to critically endangered black-and-white ruffed lemurs.
From Salon
A ruffed grouse that flew down the trail ahead of us had to be chased.
From Literature
“How beautiful she is in her shining raiment,” he rhapsodizes, “her birch-bark body, her sable bodice, her white cravat, her goffered ruff.”
Though it stretched for more than two centuries, it’s an era best known for Elizabeth I and Shakespeare, stiff ruffs and courtly processions.
His yips fall off and he nuzzles my ruff.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
