to tuft

Examples

• All

• The gardener will tuft the plants to add volume to the flowerbed.

• She decided to tuft her hair into a stylish bun for the party.

• Beside him, it tufted pleasantly against his leg.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Dad lay on his back, his mouth open, his fringe of gray hair tufted from his skull.

  Fiction book (1992)

• His big head was tufted with mounds of coarse black hair.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Older guys, some with women on their arms, sat at tufted wraparound banquettes along one wall.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Behind the desk was a huge mahogany leather chair, tufted with brass buttons.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Behind him stands his partner, O'Brien, a short fat Irishman with tufted red hair.

  Fiction book (1998)

• A long, tufted feather, deeply colored as the earth, strung on a loop of leather.

  Fiction book (1995)

• After I finished taking my photographs, I noticed a tufted titmouse watching me from a downed branch.

  Blog text (31)

How Dense

cluster

210 3.1

clump

39 3.0

to tuft

3 4.4

to gather

∞ 1.0

separate

829 2.1

Surface Forms

Etymology