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    Use "ruffling" in a sentence

    ruffling example sentences

    ruffling


    1. "Cheer up, Punka!" she said, ruffling his magnificent hair


    2. 'It is ok, have a good game,' Ish said, ruffling the boy's hair


    3. Brock poked aimlessly at the ground for a moment, the gentle breeze ruffling the guard hairs on his ears, wondering what else he could do to win the old Custodian over


    4. Glancing along the sweating rock walls, he shivered, ruffling his coat against the cold


    5. "I can feel something ruffling my fur


    6. off my hat, enjoying the breeze ruffling my hair and the thrill


    7. I can see you still, standing on the stool with your back arched and your hand on my shoulder, proud as a cock turkey ruffling its feathers


    8. “Yeah…uh, what he said…” shrugged Corin, ruffling his wavy


    9. ruffling her hair; she took out a woolen cap and pulled it over her head


    10. “Geez Levi, can’t you take a hint? I want to speak to Mallika on her own, you can leave your girlfriend with me for a few moments”, she said lovingly ruffling his hair the way she had obviously done since they met for the first time when he was five and she was eighteen

    11. Ruffling his hands playfully in my hair every time I broached the topic by saying laughingly


    12. “We might as well be brothers,” he said, ruffling the back of Steve’s hair


    13. A light breeze moved through the trees ruffling their leaves, but it was an even lighter sound, or rather a resonance of a sound that caught his attention and ear


    14. ” She could hear what sounded like the ruffling of bed sheets


    15. A ruffling of feathers and they were silent


    16. With the force of the air Corvus and Sorus were thrown in the opposite direction across the room, the wall of air passed harmlessly around Athene, merely ruffling her hair


    17. " Stavros took the sting out of his words by ruffling Zoe’s hair and giving her a kiss on the cheek


    18. Eva sat with her back to the window as a slight breeze blew in ruffling the white lace curtains


    19. The father swan looked at the ruffling hedges, flapped its wings towards the policeman’s arms


    20. “He is a Prince,” Carron said softly, ruffling the boy’s hair

    21. The Black Dragons were on hand, wild with rage, swearing and ruffling, with their hands on their hilts and foreign oaths in their teeth


    22. As the breeze was ruffling his hair, he seemed mesmerized by the


    23. There was the sound of windblown leaves ruffling around and the sound of birds chirping


    24. know which rules can be broken without overly ruffling the feathers of


    25. There was a ruffling, scuffling sound and a roar of whispers as two hundred and twenty eight Chieftains, minus the Chieftain of the Bear Clan, started crowding their way to the front of the stage


    26. “How about Midnight?” he eventually suggested, ruffling the fur along the dog’s neck as it stared at him in wonder


    27. ‘You may find it’s tasty too,’ she said coyly, ruffling his hair


    28. There were his friends, crowding around him, clapping him on the shoulders and ruffling his hair


    29. ’ but she was already ruffling his hair with the towel


    30. As the crows observed the coyote, a southwind rose, ruffling their own fine feathers

    31. I looked down between the slender stems of some silver birches that hung over the water; every now and then a tiny gust of wind came along and rippled their clear reflections, ruffling up half of each water-lily leaf, and losing itself somewhere among the reeds


    32. Space, freedom, quiet; the wind ruffling the rye; the water splashing softly against the side of the punt (there was a punt, she had extracted); the larks singing up in the sunlight; the shining clouds passing slowly across the blue


    33. ” Michael smiled, ruffling Pal’s hair


    34. With two smiles, if you counted mine, and a ruffling of hair, with no water to rinse one's greasy hand


    35. Squeezing past again, ruffling my hair, smiling, smiling, smiling


    36. I stopped the car and got out the sea breeze instantly ruffling my long white hair


    37. " Annie massaged her head with her fingertips, ruffling her hair a little


    38. His arms had not given up the ghost feelings of holding his son to his chest and ruffling his brown hair


    39. The hens were loose and a few feet away two of them shivered into a patch of dirt, ruffling their feathers and wiggling, sending up little clouds of dust


    40. They were the eyes of a happy woman, a woman around whom storms might blow without ever ruffling the serene core of her being

    41. It happened at Thirty-Fourth Street, and ever since, they’ve been minding their business like proper New Yorkers, perched at the far end of a scuffed plastic bench, ruffling wings every so often as though shaking folds from a paper


    42. He sat down by his wife, his elbows on his knees and his hands ruffling his gray hair


    43. Edgar had a deep-rooted fear of ruffling her humour


    44. He kept looking at the wheat and the wind bending and tipping and ruffling it


    45. He sat and listened as his habit was, all ruffling up his feathers like a sparrow in a cage, silent and serious, with his puffy face and his untidy, flaxen-white hair


    46. " What are you ruffling up your feathers about ? " he fired off suddenly, walking past me to his bureau without looking at me


    47. " I'm ruffling up my feathers," I began with a tremor in my voice, " because, finding in you such a queer change of tone to me and even to Versilov I


    48. Shatov cried like a boy, then talked of God knows what, wildly, crazily, with inspiration, kissed her hands; she listened entranced, perhaps not understanding him, but caressingly ruffling his hair with her weak hand, smoothing it and admiring it


    49. As Veynes drew near, the dance became a little more flamboyant, still further ruffling him; the spaces of dainty petticoat seemed to enlarge his grievance


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