How to Use unruffled in a Sentence

unruffled

adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • Twitter may be abuzz with detailed theories about lyrics, but Gomez appears to remain unruffled.
    Jenna Rennert, Vogue, 30 Mar. 2018

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