Example sentences for: bristling

How can you use “bristling” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • My hunch also tells me that there are more people who use media as a singular noun than there are people who write bristling letters to the editor insisting on its immutable plurality—which is to say, a lot.

  • The haunting silhouette of this “Medieval Manhattan,” a skyline bristling with truncated towers dating to the 12th and 13th centuries, and its lovingly preserved historic center make it the most magical of Tuscany’s hill towns.

  • For the best view of that awesomely rich façade, finished in 1813, and bristling silhouette of marble pinnacles and statues, stand in the courtyard of the Palazzo Reale south of the cathedral.

  • Even in Kuala Lumpur — as modern an urban sprawl as you could imagine, criss-crossed by expressways and bristling with skyscrapers — a construction site abandoned a moment too long to the tropical sun and rain will soon sprout a luxuriant growth of lallang ferns and wild creepers.

  • This area was founded on the profits of the 1849 Gold Rush (see page 16), and is now bristling with skyscrapers of chrome and glass.


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