rumple

How to use rumple in a sentence

Mrs. Aymer laid down her knitting, and came forward to rumple her John's hair affectionately, and deposit a kiss on his forehead.

Do not rumple that dainty lace pillow-sham, nor strew your clothing over every chair and sofa, to the irritation of the mistress.

I should have had to rumple it all up bringing it home, and I don't believe I'd had a chance to wear it.

I was goin' t' warn you to rumple up your hair a little so you wouldn't feel overdressed w'en you got there.

"It is not the woman at all," here Rumple waved the old jacket with a tragic air.

I like dancing very much better with girls, for they never squeeze and rumple one.

LORNA DOONER. D. BLACKMORE

We will go up to the balcony and see Lorito—the wasteful rumple-poll that he is—enjoy his bread and butter.

He should at least have found some way to shave, he thought, some way to take some of the rumple from his trouser legs.

MARLEY'S CHAINALAN EDWARD NOURSE

The body and the mind are like a jerkin and a jerkin's lining, rumple the one and you rumple the other.

"I certainly haven't enough sentiment to make me rumple my best white dress with a clumsy old stick," Sarah replied.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985