ruff

Example Sentences

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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.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Though it stretched for more than two centuries, it’s an era best known for Elizabeth I and Shakespeare, stiff ruffs and courtly processions.

From The Wall Street Journal

His yips fall off and he nuzzles my ruff.

From Literature

It was quite a small cat, as cats go, with a white ruff under its neck, and orange and black stripes everywhere else.

From Literature