How to Use unruffled in a Sentence

unruffled

adjective
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  • She remained unruffled despite the delays.
  • There’s never any panic in his game – so calm and unruffled with the puck on his stick.
    — Kyle Woodlief, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
  • Amid a storm of unease, the White House remained unruffled.
    — David J. Lynch, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2018
  • More than 5,000 miles from his home in Moscow, Mikhail was unruffled.
    — Kat Stromquist, Arkansas Online, 25 Dec. 2019
  • That doesn’t mean Wall Street was unruffled by the Dominion episode.
    — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Patient and unruffled, her poise appeared to catch the defense off guard.
    — Maria Bustillos, Billboard, 7 June 2017
  • Roger Moore brought an unruffled air of elegance to his agent 007.
    — CBS News, 31 Dec. 2017
  • No one had more to lose or gain from a legacy standpoint in the NHL’s ultimate legacy game than the unruffled Rask.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
  • That should be negative for bonds, but the debt market seems unruffled.
    — Bloomberg.com, 13 Aug. 2017
  • Holst stayed civil and unruffled, which played well in Denmark.
    — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2017
  • In the meantime, in the sunshine and under the blue sky, on the banks of the unruffled Potomac River, an osprey circled lazily overhead.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Millicent Fawcett’s clothes are unruffled, her gaze fixed, her mouth shut.
    — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
  • And Reeves is in top form as the perpetually unruffled John Wick.
    — Lindsay Bahr, Orange County Register, 9 Feb. 2017
  • Judging by its Thursday earnings report, though, the big-box giant was unruffled by all the change.
    — Sarah Halzack | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Jassy sat onstage in a blazer and jeans, five stories above the picket line, looking unruffled.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Athill’s troubles fit the mold of the memoir of suffering, but her unruffled attitude doesn’t.
    — Hillary Kelly, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2024
  • On that note, the lines that struck me most in Sunday’s episode may have been Lexi’s exchange with her (totally unruffled) stage manager after the play goes off the rails.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2022
  • And when the dropping test was repeated a month later, their leaves remained unruffled.
    — Ellie Shechet, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2019
  • In fitting with his unruffled demeanor, Villanueva did not want to overreact to the festive atmosphere at the end of the Chiefs game.
    — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 24 Sep. 2021
  • And while Williams was a professional who didn't scream a lot and rarely lost his temper and was calm and unruffled, Kocurek is not wired exactly like that.
    — Armando Salguero, miamiherald, 30 May 2018
  • Less than an hour from beaches that front the big resorts, Baby Beach is a delightful half-moon in an unruffled sheltered lagoon.
    — Melanie Refffes, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2019
  • McEnany is Trumpism delivered with a smiling, telegenic unruffled aplomb at a time when there’s very little to smile about and quite a lot to be ruffled by.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Thinley, known to everyone in the village by his last name, wore a battered down jacket, a baseball cap, and the unruffled calm of a man who has weathered 42 Himalayan winters.
    — Peter Gwin, National Geographic, 16 June 2020
  • Its single-speed transmission and the inherent refinement of an EV make for smooth, unruffled progress, while the plentiful torque of the electric motors is on hand to pick up the pace.
    — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Some people who went to the convention remain unruffled.
    — Fortune, 3 Dec. 2021
  • An unruffled Warren handled the Biden exchange with expert calm.
    — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Biden's unruffled approach is coinciding with the first signs of a Democratic freakout as the election nears.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Body roll is well controlled, and even in aggressive maneuvers, the CTS remains composed and unruffled.
    — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Yet, mostly unruffled, pedestrians picked their way around the puddles.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2023
  • At night, calm, unruffled winds off the Pacific Ocean produce some of the most exquisite stargazing conditions on Earth.
    — Dennis Overbye Marcos Zegers, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023

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