Example sentences for: bristling

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

  • 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.

  • 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 bared teeth are clearly human, but the feral eyes, looking sharply to the side; the curling upper lip; and the bristling facial hair suggest a cat-person ready to pounce.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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