BRISTLING in a Sentence

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1. The dog stood there, bristling with anger.
2. The dog was angry and bellicosely bristled up.
3. They bristle at attempts to compare their schools to others.
4. The best quality men's shaving brushes are made from badger bristle.
5. As soon as the bristles on your toothbrush begin to wear, throw it out.

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 Meanings and Examples of BRISTLING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bristling
 a.  rising like bristles; showing irritation
Classic Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
1  Thus only could he show his irritation, his rage with old fogies who sat and looked at views over coffee and cream when the whole of Europe--over there--was bristling like.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
2  Only the ineffective word "hedgehog" illustrated his vision of Europe, bristling with guns, poised with planes.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
3  The bristling of the hideous false teeth of tombstones on the hill affected her with a grisly kind of horror.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
4  Even above the hissing boom of the larchwood, that spread its bristling, leafless, wolfish darkness on the down-slope, she heard the tinkle as of tiny water-bells.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
5  Connie climbed the fence into the narrow path between the dense, bristling young firs.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
6  Foul with mire, with a bristling beard, and hung with matted hair, it might well have belonged to one of those old savages who dwelt in the burrows on the hillsides.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
7  Before us lay the dark bulk of the house, its serrated roof and bristling chimneys hard outlined against the silver-spangled sky.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
8  With his savage eyes and bristling moustache he was wonderfully like a tiger himself.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
9  He was a tall, handsome, swarthy fellow, clad in a suit of gray flannel, with a Panama hat, a bristling black beard, and a great, aggressive hooked nose, and flourishing a cane as he walked.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
10  Far away I could catch glimpses of the old gray building with its bristling Tudor chimneys, but the drive ran through a dense shrubbery, and I saw no more of my man.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
11  His hair was closely cut, yet bristling, for it had begun to grow a little, and did not seem to have been cut for some time.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
12  It was the opening of the door of seclusion, a frightful sheet of iron bristling with bolts which only turned on its hinges in the presence of the archbishop.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII—SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS
13  He was clad in a woman's chemise, which allowed his hairy breast and his bare arms, bristling with gray hair, to be seen.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR
14  At the same moment, an enormous, bristling, and clayey face made its appearance at the door, with a hideous laugh which exhibited not teeth, but fangs.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
15  In winter the thicket was black, dripping, bristling, shivering, and allowed some glimpse of the house.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS
Example Sentence:
1  Mouse was bristling all over, and she felt certain it must be really offended.
2  The dog stood there, bristling with anger.
3  As soon as the bristles on your toothbrush begin to wear, throw it out.
4  They bristle at attempts to compare their schools to others.
5  The best quality men's shaving brushes are made from badger bristle.
6  It looked all brown and black: elf- locks bristled out from beneath a white band which passed under her chin, and came half over her cheeks, or rather jaws: her eye confronted me at once, with a bold and direct gaze.
7  The dog was angry and bellicosely bristled up.