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

“The younger generation is interested in rollers to style their hair because they can tousle it to look modern and sophisticated,” he said.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2021

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

Late-night host Jimmy Fallon has tried to live down his famed hair tousle interview of the then-candidate Trump.

From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2020

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

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