Example sentences for: bristly

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

  • Even if it had Israel's capability to mount an Entebbe-style commando rescue, a bristly Pakistan would refuse overflight permission.

  • ' Heaths and heather are indeed finely leaved plants which in a sense are bristly, but their botanical name ( Erica for heath, Calluna for heather) reflect the properties of their stems.

  • Ornery is one of a clutch of bristly words with odd and often controversial etymologies.

  • And that bristly thing is a Septum.

  • Deriving from an old French word, huré , meaning `bristly' or `stubbled,' the epithet was originally coined by French fur traders, hard-living, robust fellows who trapped and hunted in the vicinity of the Great Lakes.


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