Sentence examples for rumple from inspiring English sources

Ken Stott as Edinburgh DI John Rebus brought a whole new rumple to the term rumpled suit, while poor Olivia Colman and David Tennant, playing DS Ellie Miller and DI Alex Hardy in Broadchurch, had to detect at the seaside clearly overheating in their manmade fibre shirt-and-suit ensembles.

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.

Her customers worked hard, juggling office and children, but also wanted to have fun without dashing home to change; so her clothes were designed not to rumple or stain, to go "effortlessly from work to weekend", and even "well into the night".

EVEN the grandest of red carpets and France this week rolled out several for the state visit of Algeria's president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika may suffer a rumple or two.

In the air, I looked down, through breaks in the clouds, on the fjord-like creases that rumple Scotland's west coast and on the waters of the Minch, the stormy channel that separates the Outer Hebrides from mainland Scotland.

Also important: no shoulder strap, which is guaranteed to rumple and ruin whatever shred of cool you've managed to hang on to.

But I know a rumple-suited, tousle-haired, greasy-pole-climbing, opportunistic, public-school-educated smart-arse when I see one.

Go ahead and snicker about how last night's eagerly awaited surprise convention speech by a Hollywood legend turned out to be an 11-minute ramble by a rumple-haired guy, 82 years old, talking without notes to an imaginary Barack Obama in an empty chair.

Leo and I sat on the wood floor, with the back door open to the sound of the robins, and played another round of Bingo, or checkers, or (so help me) Mousetrap, until Joshua came shuffling in, gruff and rumple-headed — like me without coffee — and issued his own directives, one sentence budding into the next: Now.

Though they will not talk of the White House, that certainly sounds like a national battle-plan.In essence, New Jersey's rumpled, charming, bullying governor embodies a bet: that the Republicans must develop a bipartisan appeal, or perish.

Playing against type, Ken Clarke, the justice secretary a rumpled, paunchy, suede-shoed jazz lover distrusted by the party's right turned Colonel Blimp, thundering that had the party failed to form a coalition it would have been "a disgraceful dereliction of duty".