(v. t.) To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The inner tension this engendered – coupled with others, not least his as-yet unconfessed homosexuality – can be glimpsed in photographs of the intense, thin-lipped slender young man with piercing blue eyes and tousled hair.
(2) Andy McNab, in pink trousers, would tab past the tousled figure of Tom Stoppard, slipping in the back-door in his ankle-length woollen scarf.
(3) Since taking office as prime minister for the second time a year ago, stocky, tousle-haired Abe, 59, has avoided hotheaded actions and kept his political powder dry.
(4) It is a messianism he combines with the tousled good looks of an ageing matinée idol and an undeniable charisma that at TED in Oxford four years ago had some members of the audience spellbound.
(5) A small tousled boy, wearing dungarees, white-skinned, picked it up.
(6) It was Taylor's ability to get into the skin of the character, more than the padding and a tousled salt-and-pepper wig, which transformed the legendary beauty into a blowsy virago.
(7) Tousle the hair a little, some self-deprecation and a bit of a plug for the BBC TV documentary on Monday to remind the Tory backbenchers that if the ball ever popped out of the scrum, he would be on hand to take it, almost accidentally, over the line.
(8) The US is my country now.” On his lap he held that son, a happy child with a tousle of black hair who had been born in a refugee camp 10 months previously.
(9) There is food for the families and kids, he said, tousling a young boy’s hair affectionately, but “not much for the rest of us”.
(10) It is scrawly coloured pencil drawings, funny questions, tousled hair and the loveliness of a sleeping toddler.
(11) From the dogfight inside the ruined hulk of a crash-landed Imperial Star Destroyer to the not-quite-a-surprise appearance in the last moments of the trailer of Han and Chewie, there’s not an uncomfortably racialized alien or a tousle-headed child in sight.
(12) At last he is with them once more, leaving those of us who grieve his passing with the memories he gave, the good he did, the dream he kept alive, and a single, enduring image – the image of a man on a boat; white mane tousled; smiling broadly as he sails into the wind, ready for what storms may come, carrying on toward some new and wondrous place just beyond the horizon."
(13) At this point his eight-year-old son, a young lad with shockingly blond hair arranged in the tousled fashion which gave him that just-out-of-bed look, emerged from behind his legs.
(14) Tonight’s dull 0-0 draw, your foolish MBM hack having recklessly tempted, teased and tousled the hair of fate, kicks off at: 5.30pm.
(15) We still read every day about scandalous misuses of public funds.” Silvio Berlusconi’s decline is also helping the tousle-haired comedian, says D’Alimonte.
(16) As Andrew O’Hagan put it in the London Review of Books : “The expensive silk tie on the cover tells you everything about the acquisitive vibe behind the whole thing, the appeal for mothers who wouldn’t mind a slightly naughty son-in-law if he also had tousled hair, an Audi R8 Spyder, several apartments and a general handiness with the black Amex … many comforts [are] offered for a life of mild depravity: people in these novels don’t wear underpants they wear Calvin Kleins; they don’t drink wine they have Pinot Grigio; nobody wears sunglasses they wear Ray-Bans … It’s not that having these things is at all unusual, but the specificity implies a desire much larger here than any desire people might have for kinky sex.
(17) The work shows Rembrandt in his early 20s, hair tousled, head thrown back, roaring with laughter.
(18) She's wearing a loose pale grey T-shirt and her dirty blonde hair is tousled over her shoulders.
(19) The children's bedrooms feature retro movie posters and plain mauve bedspreads, and the grinning, tousle-haired kids are pictured playing with bespoke wooden train sets that their fathers have carved out of an oak branch taken from the back garden.
(20) After leaving the Foreign Office in search of new adventures, Stewart, who looks (deceptively) winsome and vulnerable with his tousled hair and wiry build, walked 6,000 miles across Iran, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan and India, mostly alone (his winter walk across Afghanistan was the subject of his first book).
Tussle
Definition:
(v. i. & t.) To struggle, as in sport; to scuffle; to struggle with.
(n.) A struggle; a scuffle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Neil Morton has written a dandy little blog explaining how he found the perfect soundtrack for the aftermath of England's tussle with Italy last weekend.
(2) Europe's climate chief insisted on Monday that tougher greenhouse gas targets would improve the EU's economic performance, rather than push businesses overseas, as companies and green campaigners tussled over whether current emissions goals were too weak.
(3) Monti has faced a bruising time as prime minister: battling with unions at home to reform the labour laws, and tussling with Angela Merkel on the euro summit circus.
(4) Balotelli, another substitute, had to be restrained later by some quick-thinking supporters as he tussled with Chris Smalling by the touchline.
(5) It is a tale of two shows in the tussle to be named best male performance in a comedy with The IT Crowd's Richard Ayoade and Chris O'Dowd up against Mathew Baynton and James Corden from The Wrong Mans (BBC2).
(6) Many wonder if Ai will tire of the unending tussle and move abroad.
(7) The status of APD has been the focus of repeated tussles in the debate over Scotland's constitutional future, since the duty could be cut or abolished in Scotland if more powers were devolved to the Holyrood parliament while remaining in the UK.
(8) Unlike many of his fellow contenders, Rubio has mostly ignored the Trump show – a move that has spared him the sort of public confrontations that have thus far borne little fruit for candidates who’ve tussled with the Republican frontrunner, such as Jeb Bush and Rand Paul.
(9) And now we're in the endgame: a tussle between the parliament and the ministers over the final shape of the new CFP.
(10) The Coalition and the Greens are locked in a procedural tussle with Labor in the Senate to bring on the commonwealth electoral amendment bill 2016 .
(11) 36 mins: After a tussle with Nesta, Del Piero goes off for treatment to a cut eye.
(12) In signs of a tussle at the top of government the treasury chief secretary, Liam Byrne, said Mandelson had corrected himself over his claim that there would certainly not be a spending review this side of the election.
(13) Despite recent legal tussles involving Dick Clark Productions – including a running dispute over who has the rights to the Golden Globe awards – Clark's personal integrity has been "untarnished" over the years, Katz said.
(14) Consider the tussle as a head-to-head confrontation in the Olympic velodrome: somebody will win, somebody will be eliminated.
(15) Government sources said that the treasury is gearing up for a protracted tussle with ministers and backbenchers as the Budget approaches.
(16) Then came his latest bite into infamy as he tussled with Ivanovic in front of the Kop goal and redemption in the form of his 30th goal of the season.
(17) No more cover tussle because there is just so much of it.
(18) Jonathan Walters, whose new two-and-a-half-year contract was confirmed before the match, had his back to goal but as he tussled with Kurt Zouma the ball popped out to Arnautovic.
(19) Behind the voters’ defiance of Netanyahu – who is reported to believe the move will damage Israel – is a tussle between his and Bennett’s party to win over rightwing voters.
(20) The project remains at the center of a major legal tussle and has so far been granted only a partial environmental license under which full construction cannot begin.