tousle

Example Sentences

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“She has expensive taste,” Nelson laughed, kneeling down to tousle Sadie’s fur.

From Los Angeles Times

Hine’s tousled little boy, who looks forlornly into the camera with scowling dark eyes beneath a furrowed brow, likely had no such liberating choice.

From Los Angeles Times

"You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you’re thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws."

From BBC

He had been famous since he was a teenager and a sex symbol for just as long, a tousled Californian with a movie star smile.

From Salon

Mr. Brown’s tousled hair and gravelly voice have spoken to working-class voters since he was elected Ohio’s secretary of state in 1982.

From New York Times