Examples of 'bristling' in a sentence

Meaning of "bristling"

bristle (verb): to react angrily or defensively to something, usually by drawing back or flinching in a sudden or rapid manner
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  • Having bristles.
  • Showing anger.
  • present participle of bristle
  • The act of one who bristles.

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The place was bristling with fighter planes.
Bristling with sailors and river traders.
Some seem to be bristling about the cost.
Bristling with connectivity for its size.
He answered every question without ever bristling.
A bristling might work as well as any other.
There is no group of officers bristling with firearms.
The bristling spikes of the pondylus.
In obscurity and bristling with problems.
Bristling with guards and weapons.
Campaigners are bristling with cautious optimism.
But the mustache unit was bristling.
This system is bristling with defects and drawbacks.
You could see the police bristling at this.
Rage bristling under the cap.

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I recognised that my youth was bristling with magical moments.
He was bristling with the desire for combat.
Bring up horses like bristling locusts.
Everyone was bristling with the awareness of this historic reunion.
The men aboard were bristling with arms.
Bristling with energy.
Not while you are bristling with negative thoughts.
He hardly seems so formidable tonight nor is he bristling with weapons.
My body is bristling with nervous energy.
Tell me something about this stallion bristling with news.
Klein stroked his bristling red hair while groaning.
The day is still bristling.
The black seed heads bristling with irrepressible life force.
This was quite a good representation of him bristling with anger.
They are bristling with it.
He continued with the bristling.
I am bristling with them.
Doing this whole bristling thing.
Bristling with science.
Berlin today is bristling with defiance.
No one is gonna wanna tackle a big angry puffer fish bristling with dick.
Not while your mind is bristling with negative thoughts.
This ability to crack massive bones explains why female hyenas look like bristling males.
Every tree is alive and bristling with their twitterings.
They prefer cars that are reliable and will last rather than bristling with gadgets.
Not while your mind is bristling with negative thoughts towards me.
And the intruder makes himself bigger by bristling up his fur.
So this entire area is bristling with information transfer of one type or another.
The villages were in arms and the farms were bristling with scythes.
Both of us bristling with half bit knowledge from books we had read.
I drove two and a half hours bristling with energy.
The equipment is bristling with sensors to detect the muscle movements of the wearer.
He became conscious again of the bristling presence at his side.
It was bristling with thousands of rearmed Canaanites.
I did not know your room was bristling with surveillance equipment.

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