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Ruffle
"Ruffle" in a Sentence (27 examples)
Tom is not afraid to ruffle some feathers.
This might ruffle some feathers.
Don't ruffle my hair.
Buckle up. We're going to ruffle some feathers today.
That's sure to ruffle some feathers.
Igor heard something ruffle in the woods.
Don’t ruffle any feathers.
She loved the dress with the lace ruffle at the hem.
His dress was splendid; his hands glittered with rings, his snuff-box was covered with diamonds, and his ruffles were of the finest Mechlin lace.
Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
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to put the mind in a ruffle
Ruffle the end of the cuff.
The wind ruffled the papers.
Her sudden volley of insults ruffled his composure.
She […]smoothed the ruffled seas.
the fantastic revelries […] that so often ruffled the placid bosom of the Nile
But, ever after, the small violence done / Rankled in him and ruffled all his heart, / As the sharp wind that ruffles all day long / A little bitter pool about a stone / On the bare coast.
These ruffle the tranquillity of the mind.
"Ladies and gentlemen," said Mr. Wonka, coming up close and raising both hands for silence. "Please, I beg you, do not ruffle yourselves! There's nothing to worry about."
[Finn] Russell created his side’s three first-half tries, ruffling a defence known for its composure, and dictated the match from the off.
The night comes on, and the bleak winds / Do sorely ruffle.
On his right shoulder his thick mane ', / Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind.
They would ruffle with jurors.
gallants who ruffled in silk and embroidery
He was engaged in finding the steward, and in aiding him to cloak his mistress; then with a ruffling air, a new acquirement, which he had picked up since he came to Paris, he made a way for her through the crowd.
[T]he barge with oar and sail / Moved from the brink, like some full-breasted swan / That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, / Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood / With swarthy webs.
Within a thicket I reposed; when round / I ruffled up fall'n leaves in heap; and found, / Let fall from heaven, a sleep interminate.
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