rumple

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

Trashman sat by the rocking chair and let her rumple his hair.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

The MacDonald Ice rumples where the penguins now live is dynamic and unpredictable, and Antarctic seasonal sea ice levels are close to record lows.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2024

A discarded poster, grotesquely distorted by rumples and rain.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 22, 2023

This magical contraption is small, heats up in about a minute, and can easily smooth out everything from everyday rumples to tough wrinkles.

From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2018

She is sitting in her El Segundo studio, her hair a short shock of platinum blond that stands to attention when she rumples it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2015

The rumples in Papa- Nnukwu’s belly did not seem so many now, and his navel rose higher, still enclosed between folds of skin.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

And when one of us finally came padding down the wooden stairs, sleepy and rumpled and operating on a schedule she would never have personally endorsed, there was no reproach.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

The papers caught the attention of Thomas Edison, then 40 years old, rumpled, ascetic and already the most powerful figure in American electrical innovation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

Vanessa Bonet of the installation art group Dedo Vabo watched over a mission-control monitor deck, as the buzzing craft climbed into room full of braying hippos in rumpled suits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026

In an Indian city, an unassuming, slightly rumpled comedian walks into the spotlight for the first time in months.

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026

He walked out of the compound, to the street, and looked through the plants on the roadside until he saw the rumpled leaves close to the root of a whistling pine.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

As different groupings of dancers come and go, marking the hornpipe music with some maritime motions, rumpling Baroque grace with hip bumps and air kisses, other dancers pass in front or behind.

From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2021

Having done so, he turned tail, only for the carpet to sabotage his dignity by rumpling and tipping him on to his arse.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 6, 2019

It does if your idea of smooth is flexible enough to include the mild rumpling it exhibits when you wash and hang it to dry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2016

I’d eventually make it to the top, where I’d sit on a bench and watch the sun settle into an unmade bed of mountains rumpling toward the horizon.

From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2013

There was a clearing directly in front of her, at the center of which an enormous tree thrust up, its thick roots rumpling the ground ten feet around in every direction.

From "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbit