(v. t. & i.) To make uneven; to form into irregular inequalities; to wrinkle; to crumple; as, to rumple an apron or a cravat.
(n.) A fold or plait; a wrinkle.
Example Sentences:
(1) A large man with a rumpled shirt, snowy beard and hair pulled into a ponytail, the commissioner resembles a hippy Santa Claus but is a tough, shrewd operator.
(2) He is sound in wind and limb, vision and hearing, his eyes sparkle, his face is scarcely rumpled by time.
(3) So how did this rumpled everyman, who dresses in T-shirts and baggy trousers to meet corporate chiefs, end up being courted by the global elite, from princes to politicians?
(4) The eternal undergraduate, all rumpled shirt, baggy cords, student specs and unkempt hair, he looks as though he's just got out of bed - which he has.
(5) A witty man, who was a curious mixture of mischief and irritability, and who always had the rumpled appearance of one who had spent the night sleeping rough, Gray was seldom seen without a cigarette in one hand and a glass in the other.
(6) The eggs produced were non-viable and the egg capsule comprised a rumpled lipid and ruptured chitin layer.
(7) Perseveringly urchin-like, he was rumpled enough to evoke Minnesota Fats' observation that dressing a pool player in a tuxedo is like putting whipped cream on a hot dog.
(8) Still there are no houses or cars, just hills in folds like a rumpled blanket, empty fields – and then a crowd of black cows, way off in the lee of a line of trees.
(9) A vegetarian with a penchant for cardigans and rumpled trousers, he has campaigned using public transport and carrying a rucksack.
(10) And it is true that a lot of female selfie aficionados take their visual vernacular directly from pornography (unwittingly or otherwise): the pouting mouth, the pressed-together cleavage, the rumpled bedclothes in the background hinting at opportunity.
(11) The most famous bed in contemporary art, a tangle of stained and rumpled sheets bearing expensive witness to a time of heartbreak for the artist Tracey Emin , is coming to the Tate gallery on long loan from its new owner, the German businessman and collector Count Christian Duerckheim.
(12) The result is that New Labour’s second generation often looks like a smooth, besuited set of careerists, elite members of a spadocracy against which Corbyn appears the paragon of rumpled authenticity.
(13) Somehow Corbyn looks smaller and more permanently rumpled than he actually is.
(14) Early into the administration he met the president and his economics team, "and it was just clear that rumpled professors with beards just didn't come across as being so impressive.
(15) Across the valley to the west is the rumple of a high glacier, a face of snow; to the east, a horseshoe cup of grey and green.
(16) And while both vied for the White House as crusading liberal outsiders fueled by big rallies and throngs of youthful supporters, Jackson in 1984 was the loquacious, nationally known, media-anointed heir to Dr Martin Luther King Jr, at a time when Sanders, exactly one month Jackson’s senior, was the rumpled, twice-elected socialist-independent mayor of Burlington, Vermont.
(17) Expect the long-promised marriage tax bonus , a rumpled old rabbit to pull out of the Tory top hat, the idea that a small sum will send cohabiters dashing down the aisle.
(18) And if so, how will it cope with the fact sex is now so restricted in mainstream movies it's easier to shoot a twerking Disney star than rumpled sheets on celluloid?
(19) So when Matthew Dear plays London's Boiler Room club night, with everyone else's clothing lumpen and translucent with sweat, it's a pleasure to see him imperious in an elegantly rumpled white collared shirt and gothic Teddy Boy hair.
(20) On a July evening nearly a year later, Dr Anna Pou, wearing rumpled surgical scrubs, answered a knock on her door.
Wrinkle
Definition:
(n.) A winkle.
(n.) A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the skin; a wrinkle in cloth.
(n.) hence, any roughness; unevenness.
(n.) A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle.
(v. t.) To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow.
(v. t.) Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
(v. i.) To shrink into furrows and ridges.
Example Sentences:
(1) Transmission electron microscopy demonstrated that these blebs were devoid of organelles and microvilli; scanning electron microscopy revealed that the blebs were highly wrinkled and more numerous than were the projections observed in tissue from animals treated with testosterone alone, or in tissue from unoperated controls.
(2) However, patients can be taught how to retard the onset of wrinkles by avoiding unprotected sun exposure, unnecessary facial movements, and certain sleeping positions.
(3) Besides the rough, wrinkled, and brown or black surface of the fingertips, microwrinkles of the epidermis occur on the skin ridges, which have so far not been described.
(4) In fact, in some patients the lower-lid wrinkling appears far worse after fat removal.
(5) Substratum wrinkling was indicative of tension development and quantitated as percent of cells contracted.
(6) SMC also displayed several structurally detectable interactions with the fibrin substratum, such as organization of the gel by means of extension of numerous filamentous processes and contraction and wrinkling of the gel.
(7) A recipient cornea gradually developed wrinkling and opacification in Bowman's layer following an uneventful myopic epikeratoplasty.
(8) "But then a customer pointed out that our carpet was smoking and a chair was beginning to wrinkle in the heat, caused by the concentrated sun coming through the window."
(9) More than once, she replies to a question by wrinkling her nose and saying: “It’s all in the book.” Tempest can’t quite see why the breadth of her output – songs, poems, plays, a novel – is notable, because it’s all about writing and performance.
(10) Some intercalated sheaths had a wrinkled irregular configuration and some lacked a light-microscopically distinct myelin layer.
(11) Adhesions to the Gore-SM occurred at wrinkles in or at the edges of the membrane.
(12) During the course of the irradiation the animals develop permanent wrinkles on the exposed dorsal surface, which can be recorded in plastic impressions.
(13) The deflecting wrinkle is a well-known character state of the lower m2 and M1 of the human dentition, but there is little information regarding its presence in great apes.
(14) An algorithm is used to transform the number of wrinkles, recorded just before and 2.5 and 6 hr after the injection, into the intensity of the oedematous reaction.
(15) Fine wrinkling, coarse wrinkling, sallowness, looseness, and hyperpigmentation were significantly improved with tretinoin therapy.
(16) Kaeng Khoi virus was recovered from bedbugs (Stricticimex parvus and Cimex insuetus) and from suckling wrinkle-lipped bats (Tadarida plicata) collected in central Thailand.
(17) Hacked Off, which campaigns on behalf of victims of press intrusion for tighter press regulation, said this would help the government smooth out the wrinkles in the relevant clause added to the crime and courts bill, which attempts to define which publishers should be in or outside the regulator's remit.
(18) The percentage of cells showing a decrease of wrinkles was significantly higher (P less than 0.05 at 5 min and P less than 0.001 at 10 min) during the ANP-treated period than during the control period.
(19) Most dogs give a series of increasingly serious warning signs before they lose their tempers: lick their lips, blink, turn their heads away, curl their lip, lower their ears, wrinkle their foreheads, and if the dog that's annoying them doesn't get the message, they may growl or bare their teeth, and if that's still not enough it will be head and chest forward, muscles flexed, and bang, you've had it.
(20) Other specimens showed wrinkling of the outer layer that was seen later to peel off.