Examples of 'bristly' in a sentence

Meaning of "bristly"

Bristly is an adjective used to describe something that is covered in short, stiff, and rough hairs or bristles
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  • Covered with bristles.
  • Easily antagonized; irascible; prone to bristling.

How to use "bristly" in a sentence

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There are bristly hairs around the base.
Turn in the form to get a look bristly.
Bristly phyllaries halfway enclose the akenes.
Bring up the horses like bristly locusts.
Bristly papa barebacking his loverboy.
The fruit is bristly with pappus.
Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard.
So a bristly beard is a stiff beard.
I do not know what bristly means.
A bristly beard of the same color covered his face.
The white and bristly beard.
The face is convex and the head is bristly.
Big boys with bristly chins and big boots on.
The leaf blades are also bristly.
I could still feel his bristly mustache tickling my lip.

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They may be hairless to hairy to bristly.
The fur is less bristly than in other related species.
Young stems have stiff dense bristly hairs.
They are rough or bristly and have a white midrib below.
The ventral surface is sparsely bristly.
Its smaller twigs are bristly and glandular or hairy to woolly.
These setae are mostly short and bristly.
The fruit is a small bristly capsule containing a single seed.
Coelopidae species are usually densely bristly or hairy.
Its fruit is very bristly and used as a hair brush.
Because no one deserves a worn set of bristly brushes.
It is a bristly perennial which reaches just over half a meter in height.
The fur has a bristly feel.
Not bristly at all.
Has this really bristly hair.
The fruit is a bristly nutlet with prickles along its midribs.
The feathers of the forehead and bristly and stiff.
Bristly and glandular.
The feeling of bristly yarn.
The flower is unremarkable and the fruit is round and bristly.
They resemble mice with the bristly fur of shrews.
Bristly ox tongue.
It is commonly known as bristly buttercup.
The flowers are greenish white and the fruits are yellow and bristly.
The fruit is a bristly nutlet.
The green leaves are up to about a centimeter long and are glandular and bristly.
So no more bristly patches.
The herbage is covered in silvery soft and bristly hairs.
He grew a bristly beard.
The cervical groove is bristly.
Jobs tended to be either bristly or solicitous when older people offered him advice.
It is coated in soft bristly hairs.
The crown with his bristly spikes would represent the crown of thorns.
The stems are hairy to bristly.
Polyxenus pugetensis is a species of bristly millipede in the family Polyxenidae.

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