tousle

Example Sentences

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"You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you’re thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws."

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2024

In 2015 he became the first actively campaigning presidential candidate to host “SNL”; a year later, in the heat of the general election, came the hair tousle heard ’round the world on “The Tonight Show.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2020

Clamped atop a tousle of silver hair, he wore a Thug Life snapback cap, label left on.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2020

With his Little Prince notebook and his 2am tousle, he could still pass for a student, even at 42, with a shelf full of silverware.

From The Guardian • May 10, 2019

I knew that tousle was too perfect to be disinterested bedhead.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed