Sentence examples for feather ruffling from inspiring English sources

The new and the old birds had viewed each other for two weeks through a wire fence, and after some preliminary squawking and feather ruffling they seemed at peace and ready to be joined as one.

As a science writer, the topics I choose to cover vary from the mundane to the controversial, but I rarely see feather ruffling like I do when GMOs enter the conversation.

Clinical signs, including diarrhoea, depression, feather ruffling and loss of appetite, were observed in chickens infected with vvIBDV strain UPM0081, starting from 3 days post-infection (dpi), while 100percentt mortality was observed at 6 dpi.

Continuous feather ruffling.

Yes, early adopters, I can hear your feathers ruffling.

They face Portland on Saturday, in a match-up that always seems to generate a note of controversy, from missed calls to offside goals, late winners and some occasional feather-ruffling on the benches.

With South Africa doubling for California, and excellent production design taking the viewer right back to the early 60s, this very enjoyable exercise in cineaste feather-ruffling makes an interesting double bill with Sacha Gervasi's Hitchcock, which similarly addresses the director's signature obsessions, albeit in altogether more sympathetic tones.

The headstone is engraved with two roosters facing off, their feathers ruffled.

But no feathers ruffled: it seemed like a perfectly sensible thing to do.

Sir David Clementi's report on BBC governance came and went last week with few feathers ruffled.

The term has been ruled as a non-offensive, and isn't something to get my feathers ruffled about.