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Example sentences for "rumple"

Lexicographically close words:
rumour; rumoured; rumours; rump; rumped; rumpled; rumpless; rumpling; rumps; rumpus
  1. And here I may remark that when Mr. Wopsle referred to me, he considered it a necessary part of such reference to rumple my hair and poke it into my eyes.

  2. The greatest proof of love a woman can give her lover is to refrain from saying to him: "Take care and not rumple me or spot my dress," especially if the dress be new.

  3. Ducky in the shrillest of trebles as Rumple started to run along the dusty track up which the wagon was advancing.

  4. Rumple as one of the young Warners passed him, bowed under the weight of two heavy pails of sour milk for the poultry.

  5. Rupert's condition forbade any laughter or joking; besides, Nealie and Rumple looked so fearfully nervous that it was quite impossible to be even as lively as usual.

  6. The exclamation was caused by someone pounding on the door for admittance, and when Rumple found that the someone was the ship's doctor, great was his wrath at the coddling which Nealie had supposed to be necessary for him.

  7. Twice, three times, Nealie tried to speak, but no sound came, and she plumped down upon the berth beside Rumple with a shocked bewilderment upon her face which was dreadful to see.

  8. No I've got my new dress, it will rumple it if it's long in the bundle, I must open it.

  9. I went to bed to rumple it, then down to breakfast, all the time thinking of some lie as an excuse for being out all night.

  10. I wore the blue brocade with the Peter Lely bodice, and that odious Mr. Rumple took me in.

  11. Mr. Rumple is fat and pasty, and has a beard; his only topics of conversation were the assizes and the war.

  12. I think it was villainously low down of him, and at that moment I would have preferred Mr. Rumple to be sitting next me.

  13. Captain Bennett sat on the other side of me and Mr. Frame was opposite, so I devoted myself entirely to them, and left Mr. Rumple to lap up his soup like a horse in a water-trough.

  14. Man's body and his mind are exactly like a jerkin and a jerkin's lining--rumple the one, you rumple the other.

  15. If you rumple the jerkin, you rumple the jerkin's lining.

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

  17. He was a philosopher in the true sense of the word, for he let no occurrence of life rumple the couch of his repose--if he didn't like his quarters he took up his store of earthly wealth upon the end of a stick, and travelled.


  18. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rumple" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.