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How to use ruffle in a sentence

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Rather than packing a sad about the apparent diss, she said she was happy to ruffle the singer's feathers.
That doesn't seem to ruffle the feathers of the American consciousness or make them feel inadequate.
These are your family men who ruffle their kids' hair and leave for office everyday in their neat clothes.
It would just sit there, ruffle its clipped wing feathers and continue its neurotic seed shovelling and beak swinging.
My very favorite skirt has a subtle ruffle along the hem. It's not ultra-girly but it gives it a little something extra.
I took a deep breath and let the wind ruffle my hair, loosing it from the leather thong.
Aaron had been so cool and composed a moment ago, as if nothing in the world could ruffle him.
If he should rage, his act will not ruffle me, for I shall play the wise man's part and practice a smooth-tempered self-control!
Edith wore a sweet pink gingham dress with a white ruffle at the hem and a white apron.
She appeared in a white suit jacket with an apricot blouse and a prim ruffle down the front.
Chick embryonic cells in the interior of confluent monolayers are able to ruffle and translocate relative to one another.
The ruffle on drums and the flourish on bugles are sounded together, up to four times depending on the prominence of the deceased.
They started with the sounding of a bugle, leading in to a drum ruffle from the drum corps, and then swinging into their rock group performance.
The arms stopped at the elbow in a double ruffle edged with lace and the whole outfit was set off with a matching choker.
Was Hannity trying to ruffle Jensen's feathers, knock him off balance in order to get him to react in anger?
There is nothing to ruffle the tutus of any local balletomane in this year's Royal New Zealand Ballet's Tutus on Tour programme.
Judging from the steamy season 6 promo, the relationship is bound to ruffle some shippers' feathers.
Snorkel early in the day, before Hawaii's trade winds ruffle the surface and stir up sand in the water, which reduces visibility.
The hen harrier is a bird of prey and can be recognised by its long legs and broad wing span some also have a ruffle of feathers around the face.
The red ruffle detail dress is flirty and fun with frills falling from the hem and shoulder for a ravishing party look.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It is a curious fact, but it is difficult, do you know, for any one to ruffle me.
Sometimes she turned her face to the wall and lay there, not even a ruffle quivering.
What time had folk like these for powder-puff or ruffle, for fan or jeweled snuff-box?
The other edge of the mesentery is gathered up as you have gathered the ruffle.
Bobby liked to watch the brisk puffs as they hit, spread in a fan-shaped ruffle of dark water and skittered away.
In fact, there was nothing that the world could do to Him that could ruffle the surface of His spirit.
I live well, I sleep peacefully, I retain my health, I can ruffle it with my juniors.
Charles II was an easygoing and kindly man and hard to ruffle.
His hand, always wonderfully beautiful and strong, was set off by a ruffle of lace, like certain hands by Titian and Vandyck.
In this way the ruffle flares out into the abdominal cavity.
The camp bullies and prime trappers of the party began to ruffle up, and to brag, in turn, of their perils and achievements.
What is big this season is anything peplum, which is a short overskirt or ruffle attached at the waistline of a jacket, blouse or dress.
Cheerfulness and alertness seemed to return to him, and a quietness which no insult or injury could ruffle seemed to possess him.
Should she come to harm in the ruffle, where could I get such another?
Lecount's resolution not to be offended, Captain Wragge's exasperating insensibility to every stroke she aimed at him began to ruffle her.
The most trying and provoking things, I observe, can not ruffle you.
Now, what can have happened to ruffle so serene a nature as his?
The yacht moved rapidly on, though there did not appear to be sufficient wind to ruffle the curls on the head of a young girl.
You know as well as I that it does make a difference with nearly everyone, so don't ruffle up like a dear, motherly hen, when your chickens get pecked by smarter birds.
Puckering up his face though smiling, and showing his short strong teeth, he began with stubby fingers of both hands to ruffle up his thick tangled black hair.
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