rumple

Example Sentences

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Her latest cookbook, “À Table,” features dishes including a leg of lamb photographed on Astier plates, which she described as looking like “that forgiving and perfectly rumpled white shirt.”

From New York Times

On the job, the detectives and attorneys wore drab, rumpled suits and worked desk phones from cramped offices.

From New York Times

Her show’s centerpiece is an abstracted tidal landscape made of rumpled paper dappled with pastel watercolors; it’s more orange and gentler on the edges and bluer and more agitated at the center.

From Washington Post

It was the sort of get-up you half hope would catch on widely and supplant the cascade of penitentiary sweatshirts and rumpled pullovers at the daily Zoom.

From New York Times

Kotsur, who does indeed radiate a rumpled warmth, is just the second actor who is deaf to be nominated for an Academy Award.

From Seattle Times