How To Use Tousle In A Sentence

  • Can't quite imagine yourself with your hair gathered loosely at the crown with tousled waves flowing down your neck… but like the idea?
  • He kissed and tousled the young vrouws; and, if they frowned and pouted, gave them a gold rosary, or a sparkling cross, to put them in good humour again.
  • My gaze focused on my lover, my heart doing a little flip at the sight of him, his hair in its familiar tousle that fell over his forehead. My Fair Succubi
  • He was one of the few artists to impress the ordinarily vicious panel of judges, and the only criticism the toughest of them could find was with the Norwegian's tousled, gap-toothed appearance.
  • Under the tousle of thick blond hair, he looks like a small child again.
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  • The suit is sharp, the hair fashionably tousled and the sideburns are pronounced. Times, Sunday Times
  • Men love tumbling curls and artfully tousled hair. The Sun
  • Mia looked so beautiful in her lavender dress, her hair slightly curled in long tousles, the beaded earrings glinting in the setting sun. The Love Goddess’ Cooking School
  • This season's hair is either tousled or tailored with a soft wave; think loose ponytails or chignons and a well-trimmed fringe.
  • A head with rosy cheeks, tousled hair, and flashing glasses suddenly appeared before me.
  • Rocking-horses can't run away," Sue said, shaking her head, the hair of which needed brushing, as it had become "tousled" in her sleep. Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue
  • Alex tousled my hair for luck - which immediately set me off because I'd spent an hour slicking it down.
  • My hair was tousled by cheering crowds who thrust a beer can into my hand and said: 'Welcome to freedom. Times, Sunday Times
  • But in my twenties the need to be prepared for the unexpected was not an issue, even without a stitch of makeup and tousled just woke up hair, my radiant youth inoculated me about worrying about […] All Things Girl » All Things Girl » 2010 » March
  • Leo opened the door to his room, saw a nightlight revealing a little tousled head peering above blankets. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
  • She had tousled blonde hair that hung limply around her shoulders.
  • She has tousled, spiky hair that manages to look girlish.
  • The tousled red hair and the small, slender bare feet showing beneath her hastily donned garments were all too obvious to both strangers. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
  • She had just awakened, her eyes sleepy and her hair tousled.
  • Janet chuckled and tousled his unkempt gingery hair.
  • His hair is artfully tousled and a set of perfectly white teeth gleam winningly. Times, Sunday Times
  • His tousled auburn hair almost hid his eyes, and the freckles dotted his face like the stars in the galaxy.
  • Her hair is tousled and down today, and she is dressed in a chic white shirt. Times, Sunday Times
  • Even the fierce "huskies" had become tame, and liked to be upset and tousled about and dragged on their backs growling fierce but mock protest. The Silent Places
  • My hair was tousled by cheering crowds who thrust a beer can into my hand and said: 'Welcome to freedom. Times, Sunday Times
  • Janson has tousled blond hair and wears puka shells around his neck.
  • I'm talking carefully ripped jeans, studiously scuffed shoes, lovingly tousled hair and, for guys, cultivated stubble (this isn't so great on chicks).
  • Two hours later and I was still tousle-haired and wearing an apron over my pajamas, but the pot was bubbling away on the stove and I was clearing up tomato skins and marrow seeds from the worktop.
  • Now for your hair: I like a slightly mussed updo or a fully blown out, tousled look—think of 1960's model-actress Suzy Parker or Oprah Winfrey . A White Shirt Goes Formal
  • Their tousled hair bushes out at the nape in the manner of Perugino.
  • Be totally over-the-top with leather bustier, garter belts and sexy tousled bed head.
  • His short and curly dark hair was tousled from a morning of sleep and his usually olive skin had the sallow tone of the hungover.
  • I smiled and tousled her hair as I left, effectively scattering her carefully parted side swept bangs. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Kynnaston’s Review Forum
  • On the February cover of Russian Vogue, a tousled blonde wears Ralph Lauren's bibbed denim version, neo-hippie accessorized with a gold woven bustier, a low-slung fringed belt and skin-baring provocative side curve. Overalls: Making A Comeback?
  • There was something about the hitcher's appearance - his tousled garb or lived-in features, perhaps - that scared the motorist and his companion off.
  • Men love tumbling curls and artfully tousled hair. The Sun
  • His short, brown hair was tousled, greasy, and specked with dirt.
  • The man staring back at him was a stranger - tousled and weary.
  • Allure's Web site features a busy beauty blogging area, a Facebook page and a standalone site called Allure Virtual Store, where users can watch videos on how to create a "tousled" hair look. Hearst Signs On in Beauty Contest
  • Although returning aristocrats tended to favor powdered hair and tight-fitting knee breeches in the old style, most middle-class men wore trousers or pantaloons and kept their hair in a natural style, whether tousled or à la Titus.
  • Rough stubbles of wispy hair were developing on his dimpled chin and his rough curling sandy brown hair was unkempt and tousled wildly.
  • A young man, 24, with tousled, straight brown hair, crystal blue eyes looked up from his lapful of ropes.
  • This was then fluffed out, giving her a gorgeous tousled look. The Sun
  • The tousled clouds have dispersed from the sky.
  • While I would have enjoyed loading up the Wagon Queen Family Truckster, hitting the New Jersey Turnpike, and straddling two lanes at a leisurely 37mph while the icy wind tousles my hair through my missing windshield and my Ironic Orange Julius Bike hangs out the tailgate, it turns out I have to be elsewhere in the country for something more important. Archive 2010-02-01
  • Based on a tousled, centre-left clefted, mop head with policy aversion? Bad Hair Day: Cam Hands Double Crown to Lib Dems
  • He had dark tousled hair that appeared to have been cut by a barber in a rush.
  • His usual gelled hair was tousled into a mess, his skin pale and pallid.
  • I imagined her springy muscles stretching and flexing, her hair tousled, her bedclothes rumpled. A RODENT OF DOUBT
  • Mostly we learn that Gilbert was so restless that a cure for her ennui -- sex with a younger man (even one as tousle-haired as James Franco) -- didn't do it for her. Brad Balfour: Huff Post Review: A Trio of Films Offer Inspiration, but Only Two Deliver
  • Her breath came in short pants as she stumbled backwards collapsing down onto the bed in a tousled heap.
  • Fantastic for that tousled look that celebs love so much. The Sun
  • Instead, Ray Wilkins, previously a likable part-timer, has been given free rein to incant his belief in "staying on your feet", while Redknapp continues to fidget and ramble, occasionally sparkling with accidental insight like some tousled piano-playing man‑child genius. Sky generation is beginning to miss Richard Keys and Andy Gray | Barney Ronay
  • His dark brown hair was slightly tousled, falling onto his forehead.
  • He reaches across the table and tousles my hair affectionately. Podcast411 Interview
  • A lad with tousled fair hair came out of the livery, and Ben handed over the horse and two bits for feed and a rub down.
  • Englishmen of the time preferred brushed back and rather "tousled" locks. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
  • She had mastered the texture not only of skin but of fabrics, from the slither of silks to the deep tousle of thick wool and towelling and the stiff give of fine leather gloves.
  • She lay on her back, golden hair tousled, one little arm outflung, fast asleep. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
  • One boy with a shock of blond hair tousled her hair affectionately.
  • He could sec her troubled eyebrows, her tousled hair as she sat brooding about what might be happening in Rome.
  • I like tousled, shiny hair with a cap thrown on top. Times, Sunday Times
  • He has one of those public school faces that was created solely to stare up at blue English skies from a gently rocking punt while a tousle-haired type declaims Rupert Brooke.
  • Her tousled tresses and bronzed make-up finished off the look perfectly. The Sun
  • His hair was tousled and he looked as if he'd just woken up.
  • The cattle dog's harsh tousled coat (except on the head where it is shorter and flat), its moustache and little beard all give it a forbidding appearance.
  • His hair was tousled, his eyes were heavy and he smiled at her sleepily.
  • His hair is artfully tousled and a set of perfectly white teeth gleam winningly. Times, Sunday Times
  • The tousled red hair and the small, slender bare feet showing beneath her hastily donned garments were all too obvious to both strangers. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
  • They both wore large dark and similar outfits with long, tousled locks in the wind. The Sun
  • Amid the torn flesh , blood, and dirty, tousled hair, it was difficult to be sure.
  • Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it. Mitch Albom 
  • This was then fluffed out, giving her a gorgeous tousled look. The Sun
  • He had a thick mane of dark hair, usually slicked back but at times becomingly tousled.
  • This was a different Nicole - tousled hair, sweat pants, t-shirt, and no makeup.
  • Marcus paused to scrub at his clean-shaven face, then tousle hair inexpertly trimmed with his own shears. G'lder
  • He looked tired, his blond hair was tousled from sleep, and he had somehow found a loud orange shirt and green trousers.
  • On the mantelpiece his wife, Nancy, smiled from her photo, her wavy brown hair tousled, and her freckled nose slightly pink with sunburn. Excerpt: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
  • Her tousled tresses and bronzed make-up finished off the look perfectly. The Sun
  • We want her to have a relaxed, tousled look. Times, Sunday Times
  • But it wasn't really such a leap from paintings of riders to pictures of top-hatted toffs playing around with tousled tarts.
  • Amid a sea of grey suits at Westminster, he sparkles while shaking his tousled blond locks. Times, Sunday Times
  • Tousle the hair with a styling pick before finishing with a holding spray.
  • Her hair is tousled and down today, and she is dressed in a chic white shirt. Times, Sunday Times
  • Slightly jumpy, Michael peered into a mirror and tousled his hair, constantly shifting his weight.
  • Despite the knowledge of the risks, everything about him had drawn her closer-the surprise at seeing him walking toward her on the beach, his easy smile and tousled hair, the nervous, boylike gaze-and in that instant, he'd been both the man she knew and the man she didn't. The Taste of Coins from Treasure Troves
  • tousled" character of the English vocabulary as a whole, compared with Robert Browning
  • His black hair was tousled, blown by the wind, shining strands of it across his brown forehead.
  • Her hair is loose and tousled, her skin flawless. The Sun
  • But in my twenties the need to be prepared for the unexpected was not an issue, even without a stitch of makeup and tousled just woke up hair, my radiant youth inoculated me about worrying about such things. All Things Girl » All Things Girl » Blog Archive » Guest Post: SynGRINisity, by Wendy Reichental
  • His brown skin glistens in the burning noon sun, and his hair is tousled, streaked brown.
  • We want her to have a relaxed, tousled look. Times, Sunday Times
  • I posted last night about heroes and tousled manes at Oddshots last night. Oddshots Post
  • Beyond the tousled hair and sexily dishevelled clothes they're buzzing, too.
  • Occasionally you will reach over and tousle her hair, or she may lean against your leg. John Merrow: E.D. Hirsch, Linda Katz, and Mike Smith Weigh in on Reading Development
  • She's pretty in a low-key way - long tousled black hair, perfect make-up-free skin, full lips and searching dark eyes.
  • Cody was fully dressed, but his hair was tousled, and he was yawning.
  • his brown hair was tousled, thick, and curly
  • With his soft grey eyes, enviable cheekbones and hair that tousles endearingly at the merest touch, he has all the makings of a teen idol.
  • She smiled up at him, smoothing down the unruly cowlick that rested atop his mop of rakishly tousled brunette hair.
  • He came to breakfast, all tousled[sentence dictionary], in last night's clothes.
  • My hair was tousled around my face, a single strand tickling my nose.
  • His brown skin glistens in the burning noon sun, and his hair is tousled, streaked brown.
  • Behind, the glass barrier was a starved looking girl in a dirty purple dress ruined with mascara splatters, black tears blotched her face and her high bun was loose and trailing down in tousled strands.
  • Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it. Mitch Albom 
  • Today, his famously lustrous bouffant is mid-length, backswept and tousled to perfection. Times, Sunday Times
  • The registration clerk cuddles you and coos; nurses want to hold you; the doctor tousles your hair, which makes you laugh. Archive 2006-10-01
  • Playfully, he tousled my hair, making me once again feel like I was seven.
  • He was unshaven and his hair was tousled. KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds
  • Warren nodded and ran a hand through his tousled hair, mussing it up even further.
  • Her hair was tousled cutely around her face, and the darkness illuminated her eyes incandescently, as if he were staring into the eyes of an angel.
  • Paparazzi video and she herself becomes a kind of scoliotic (yes, I just made that word up) bionic woman after she falls from a balcony in a theatrical lovers 'tousle: Tove Hermanson: Anatomical Fashion & Lady Gaga
  • He was still wearing one of dad's old tee-shirts that served him for a nightshirt, his brown hair all tousled on his head.
  • I like tousled, shiny hair with a cap thrown on top. Times, Sunday Times
  • Amid a sea of grey suits at Westminster, he sparkles while shaking his tousled blond locks. Times, Sunday Times
  • His blonde hair, normally messy but in a totally fake way, was tousled in the true sense of the word.
  • Pink campions and tousled goosegrass rose on either side, camouflaging it nicely. Wildwood
  • At the sound of his rumbling voice, Gualtero poked his tousled brown head out of the shadows.
  • Her dark hair was tousled and messy and her eyes were red and puffy.
  • Robert F. Kennedy was 31, a small, lean, suntanned man with the thick forearms of a tennis player, tousled light brown hair and a preppy look, wearing natural shoulder suits, repp ties and button-down Brooks Brothers shirts. Virtual 'Bobby'
  • He had dragged himself from the bed in a tangle of blankets, his hair tousled and bedraggled like a farmer's hay stack that had been left out in the rain.
  • As a bank executive, Moynihan has been known to attend meetings with colleagues or analysts looking rumpled and tousled, a stark contrast to his predecessor, Lewis, who was known for being impeccably dressed. Bank of America's Moynihan says challenges just starting
  • Her gaze fell on Kate's tousled hair.
  • Her hair was tousled from what looked like a rough night of sleep.
  • There was blood in his dirty tousled brown hair and suddenly, as if he had sensed her watching him, he looked up and his eyes met hers.
  • The cattle dog's harsh tousled coat (except on the head where it is shorter and flat), its moustache and little beard all give it a forbidding appearance.
  • FOR my tousled look, it's all about the hair prep. The Sun
  • Griffin had short black hair in a tousled style, normally, as he now had here.
  • A small tousled head appeared in the doorway.
  • The olive trees on the topmost terrace look tousled; the silver undersides of their leaves are far more visible than usual.
  • His brown skin glistens in the burning noon sun, and his hair is tousled, streaked brown.
  • She had mastered the texture not only of skin but of fabrics, from the slither of silks to the deep tousle of thick wool and towelling and the stiff give of fine leather gloves.
  • He was unshaven and his hair was tousled. KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds
  • He probably thought she looked sweet: confused, tousled, half-awake, like a grumpy little kid. A cool Radio 4? What a turn-off | Victoria Coren
  • She was a tall, slender woman with an artfully tousled mop of shiny blonde hair.
  • FOR my tousled look, it's all about the hair prep. The Sun
  • a bed with tousled sheets
  • There was a rustle of straw in the corner of the chamber, illumined by a shaft of diffident sunlight that looked as though it had got up far too early, and a tousled head poked out, squinting bleary eyes into the dusty gloom.
  • By Sloanes For Hair Sexy long, blonde hair has been tousled with styling mousse.
  • Her dark brown hair was tousled and tangled with signs of restless sleep.
  • Four are here, including the bust-length "Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets" 1872—dressed in black, her tousled brown hair escaping from a beribboned black hat, a black scarf around her neck, the violets a swish of purple. Still Turning Black to Light
  • And if you want to get tousled, beachy hair like the star, here's how. The Sun
  • She had mastered the texture not only of skin but of fabrics, from the slither of silks to the deep tousle of thick wool and towelling and the stiff give of fine leather gloves.
  • Investment adviser is told with me later, you how can so does tousle period counterpoise ?
  • Paparazzi video and she herself becomes a kind of scoliotic (yes, I just made that word up) bionic woman after she falls from a balcony in a theatrical lovers 'tousle: Tove Hermanson: Anatomical Fashion & Lady Gaga
  • The king tousles the boy's hair, and the boy looks at him frankly. Asimov's Science Fiction
  • The suit is sharp, the hair fashionably tousled and the sideburns are pronounced. Times, Sunday Times
  • One guy is tall, square jawed with even features and a full head of cutely tousled hair.
  • Roark said the witnesses testifying against Carter, including Tousley and other former sheriff's office brass, were just trying to "sully" Carter's reputation. Undefined
  • Thick, tousled hair bleached a near white from excessive sunlight twisted about his head, whipping and snagging in the wind's grasp.
  • It was of a tousle-haired blond boy, with sharp, angular features and laughing eyes.
  • There was a slight breeze in the air that tousled Lena's hair, stray tendrils from her ponytail framing her face.
  • About 15 million people will watch her tousle that dyed blonde hair as she gamely re-enacts one of her iconic performances. Mara Reinstein: Oh Baby, Baby: Britney Spears Makes a Comeback
  • Her hair is tousled and down today, and she is dressed in a chic white shirt. Times, Sunday Times
  • I close my eyes and, once more, imagine him standing before me, all tan muscles, adorable grin, tousled brown hair, and sea-green eyes, fingering the hem of his madras button-down in that cute nervous way he has.
  • Chastain's deglamorized look in Take Shelter as the loyal wife of a troubled construction worker, t-shirts and non-designer jeans with tousled mane, might be closer to the real Jessica. Regina Weinreich: Take Shelter in Times of Terror and Tornadoes
  • Naomi stood in front of them, her face flushed, her hair tousled.
  • Tribble, a lean, tousle-haired programmer who had been teetering between a career in technology or medicine.
  • He was unshaven and his hair was tousled. KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds
  • The wind tousled his hair and it became a little messy, and I laughed.
  • Morrison was the archetypal 1960s rock star whose tousled good looks and raucous stage show combined with his band's mix of electronic blues and psychedelic sounds to give them a string of international hits.
  • Fantastic for that tousled look that celebs love so much. The Sun
  • Her tousled tresses and bronzed make-up finished off the look perfectly. The Sun
  • I'm not hung up on that number," says Burton, whose tousled salt-and-pepper hair and red cheeks are evidence of the morning snowboard run from which he's just returned. Jake Burton puts his personal stamp on Burton Snowboards
  • It was Thomas, tousle-haired and serious, who went without a word to kneel down by Will. Clockwork Angel
  • Her hair was tousled and fell loosely around her face, which was streaked with what looked to be a combination of ash and dirt.
  • Her guest was slightly bleary-eyed this morning, his thick hair tousled over his brow.
  • She breathes a “bonsoir” to us from under her tousled hair, and visions of Edith Piaf dance before our eyes. Baa baa black sheep, have you any Grey Goose?
  • They both wore large dark and similar outfits with long, tousled locks in the wind. The Sun
  • ‘You guys are weird,’ Kimberley said, mussing Clay's already-tousled hair and walking out.
  • Naomi stood in front of them, her face flushed, her hair tousled.
  • Providing the electrifying bass throb was Luke, all long tousled curls and dangling cigarette (a must for axemen of real distinction).
  • The tousled hair's intact, but, at 57, the formerly cherubic face is somewhat worn, making him look more louche than ever.
  • Come September, attractive ferny foliage is a backdrop to yellow, lemon-peel flowers, which mix with fascinating tousled seed heads as the flowers drop.
  • The resting caravan, surrounded by happy tousled children, mongrel dogs and piebald ponies grazing the long acre presents an attractive picture and few of us have not, at some time, envied these nomadic people their happy ways of life.
  • Dante, in a famous chapter of the _De Vulgari Eloquio_ [102] laid down a fourfold distinction among words on the analogy of the varying texture of the hair; enjoining the poet to avoid both the extremes of smoothness and roughness, -- to prefer the "combed" and the "shaggy" to the "tousled" and the "sleek. Robert Browning
  • His eyes were still foggy with sleep and his hair was tousled.
  • A tension drained out of him at the sight of those tousled raven locks.
  • Silver framed glasses rested on the tip of her nose, her short hair being tousled by the brisk winds.
  • His dirty blonde waves of hair were tousled slightly and his tan arms were smudged with grease and dirt, but he still had me drawn.
  • He had a thick mane of dark hair, usually slicked back but at times becomingly tousled.
  • The strong wind tousled my hair

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