rumple

Example Sentences

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So I take off my makeup, rumple my hair and go to the supermarket in sweats.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2022

On a blue two-seater sofa, a tiny head and bony freckled hands emerge from the loose rumple of a red and black Chinese silk shirt.

From Time • Oct. 10, 2016

In Sonnet 73, “That time of year thou mayest in me behold,” there is a cognitive rumple as eventful as any I know in poetry.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 23, 2016

His hair is frequently rumpled, but there’s not enough of it to rumple in the fashion of Donald Trump.

From Washington Times • Jan. 21, 2016

He’d give Bill a playful cuff and rumple his hair.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey