Example sentences for: rustle

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

  • A handful of tascas and bars rustle up barbecued sardines.

  • Decent reviews for former New York Times executive editor Max Frankel's memoirs: Ward Just calls it a "a smart, tough, scrupulous book" in the New York Times Book Review ; in that fair journal's traditional negative-comment spot (the penultimate paragraph) all Just can come up with is that there's "a whiff of the puritan about Max Frankel, and perhaps also the rustle of score-settling."

  • Visually and aurally, the attack scenes are built : Leaves rustle, torches go out in curly wisps of smoke, hoofbeats start softly and end up pounding your head.

  • Do offer to pay for the rug to be cleaned at the finest rug cleaner you can rustle up.

  • Tolstoy's rendering of Anna Karenina's magic in her black ball gown, or of Princess Betsy's décolletage at the theater, stand out as examples, along with Henry James' magnificent glancing allusions to the emotional power generated by a rustle, a ribbon, the drawing on of a pair of gloves.


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