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How to use bristling in a sentence

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The city was bristling with activity, traders, merchants, priests and priestesses.
The success of Houston Sculpture 2000 was further evidence of the bristling energy and dynamism of Houston's art scene.
The piano projected brightly, the themes warmly shaped and the passagework bristling and with sensitive dynamics.
Here one could relish plateaus of stillness before the onset of bristling counterpoint and passagework in the finale.
It is veteran versus tyro, wily old fox against bristling young cub, a man who has done it all against a boy who threatens to do it all.
Though the bristling tall elephant grass had virtually turned the playing field into a jungle, the weather was just right.
Clark, who has a reputation for bristling when facing criticism, maintained a smile and an even-tempered tone.
Some adults gave thumbs-up signs, others watched sullenly as the 60 vehicles, bristling with weapons, crawled past.
In the predawn gloom, an armada of longboards sat in the sand of Windansea beach, bristling like war ships with poles, tackle, and gear.
He looked down at Ace whose fur was bristling and her teeth and claws were bared.
It stood in the middle of the road now, its gray fur bristling and its yellowed teeth bared.
The wolfish creature padded like a soldier down the hall, its fur bristling and its head held high by its broad chest.
Ayane shot up to a sitting position, back ramrod-straight and fur bristling.
He seemed a little taken aback, sat and listened with fur bristling, one hand stroking the back of the other.
The cats sat right on the door frame, tensely bristling at the world beyond.
He's positively bristling about the government's failure to react to the crisis.
Within moments of their arrival, a tall, heavy-set man with a large bristling mustache hurried over.
The body is covered by thick long fur with a brown patch of bristling hair.
Only the faint ridge of bristling fur along her spine revealed the emotion that seethed within.
His lefty politics had a bristling integrity, yet weren't so extreme as to be inaccessible or unrealistic.
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Miss Mellins was a small woman with a glossy yellow face and a frizz of black hair bristling with imitation tortoise-shell pins.
The coliseum, which we meet first, on our right, was bristling with churches.
He then went up beside his nephew, while Fred, bristling with excitement, hastened to the toolroom.
The two had an air of bristling, hog-backed ferocity, strangely out of keeping with the normal reserve of a man-of-war.
Mr. klug exclaimed with explosive violence, his mustache bristling now until it stuck straight out.
I saw the tremor shake their bristling hosts, oscillate the great spire, set the faceted disks quivering.
There are bristling comets, they are like the skins of beasts with their hair on, and are surrounded by a nebulosity.
A hundred feet to the left was a wild thicket of ground thorns, their needlelike tips bristling.
Then the staghound sprang up, snarling, his fangs bared, and the hair along his back bristling.
His face when shaved was blue in cast, but it was more often unshaved and bristling.
Hence Germanys bristling attitude to France, and the revival in France of the revanche idea, which had died down.
His face, now bristling with dark stubble, was none the less clear-chiseled and arrestingly featured.
We could see the shafts of the darts fast in the cleft, bristling in the moonlight.
The men-folk were allowed no nearer than the fringe of their bristling skirts.
His whiskers were an untamed sorrel bristling and across his cheekbone was the ugly scar of a half healed wound.
Black decaying trunks of trees stood up at various angles, often bristling with dead branches like chevaux-de-frise.
Ah, that beautiful and mysterious shore, all bristling with rocks!
They half circled about each other, tentatively, snarling and bristling.
She was formal in manner, and made calls in rustling, steel-grey brocades and a tall bonnet with bristling aigrettes.
He whirled back to her, the short hairs on his neck bristling.
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