ruffled
Example Sentences
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Ruffled feathers are not unusual in the spring.
From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022
Ruffled by Rifts, it does appear that rifts are all around you — or at the very least, you are in the minority of being willing to get vaccinated in your family.
From Salon • May 13, 2021
“Annoyance stokes him, sends him forth, gives him purpose. Ruffled, he becomes electric, full of play and possibility. There is magnificence in his every irritation.”
From Seattle Times • Jul. 25, 2020
Ruffled residents in Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire, gathered an army of the bath time toys and placed them in rain-filled road fractures to highlight the issue.
From BBC • May 19, 2017
‘Quite the little gentleman—from the waist up. Silver buttons, eh? Ruffled shirt?’
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
