Bristling is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Bristling meaning
- Having bristles.
- Reacting with anger or indignation.
- Dressed in effective defensive equipment while not seeking a fight.
Using Bristling
- The main meaning on this page is: Having bristles. | Reacting with anger or indignation. | Dressed in effective defensive equipment while not seeking a fight.
- In the example corpus, bristling often appears in combinations such as: bristling with, and bristling, bristling when.
Context around Bristling
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 5 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bristling
- In this selection, "bristling" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, left, bright, worked, porcupine, circular and reaction stand out and add context to how "bristling" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a bristling density of and a plane bristling with machine. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bristling" sits close to words such as actinium, adherent and adipose, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bristling
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The tone of these novels was bright, bristling and profane. (10 words)
Speaking of teeth, this puzzle’s clue set is bristling with sharp stuff. (13 words)
The Trophy-R is what proper hot hatches should be; engaging, exciting and bristling with personality. (16 words)
You only had to watch the bristling reaction of the Sheffield United manager, Chris Wilder, to the news that Dean Henderson was named man of the match in their 1-0 win over Norwich on Saturday (“He’s only made a couple of saves! (44 words)
The Army Air Corps was building up quickly in the late 1930s, with the emergence of new technologies and all-metal, multi-engine bombers, like the B-17 Flying Fortress, a plane bristling with machine guns to defend itself. (39 words)
As the central love triangle contorts into a bristling circular cycle of indecision, resentment, guilt, and betrayal, demands much from the viewer, asking us to sit silently and watch as these living corpses reach the only inevitable conclusion. (38 words)
You only had to watch the bristling reaction of the Sheffield United manager, Chris Wilder, to the news that Dean Henderson was named man of the match in their 1-0 win over Norwich on Saturday (“He’s only made a couple of saves! (44 words)
Example sentences (20)
And fourth, the West could turn Ukraine into a bristling porcupine, armed to the hilt with massive Western training and other support, so that it would be all but impossible for Russia to swallow.
Bristling with ideas and a playful edge (“toys” are among its listed instruments), it confirms its creator as a challenging leading man.
Conservative MPs see it as an overtly political visit – an opportunity to smooth relations that may otherwise be left bristling after the thorny business of thrashing out a deal.
Moreover, workers are bristling when being asked to return to the office by the likes of companies like Amazon, Disney and Starbucks.
Speaking of teeth, this puzzle’s clue set is bristling with sharp stuff.
The tone of these novels was bright, bristling and profane.
As deadly as these submarines are, bristling with torpedoes, mines and guided missiles, and powered by nuclear power plants, they actually haven't encountered combat in the same way older submarines did.
As the central love triangle contorts into a bristling circular cycle of indecision, resentment, guilt, and betrayal, demands much from the viewer, asking us to sit silently and watch as these living corpses reach the only inevitable conclusion.
He’s not wrong for wanting a partner who shares at least some sense of queerness, but you are not wrong for being straight or for bristling when someone else tells you your identity.
It is both over- and under-worked, bristling with ideas and issues and subplots that have but little connective tissue holding them together.
The Trophy-R is what proper hot hatches should be; engaging, exciting and bristling with personality.
While the US Navy has big ships bristling with the latest technology, Iran takes a decidedly different approach on the water: swarm tactics.
You only had to watch the bristling reaction of the Sheffield United manager, Chris Wilder, to the news that Dean Henderson was named man of the match in their 1-0 win over Norwich on Saturday (“He’s only made a couple of saves!
A bristling density — of sounds, styles, ideas, implications — unites the untamed production and rapping of Jpegmafia.
Faced by rebel groups bristling with weapons, a small ranger force armed with old assault rifles that often jam is not enough to secure the park.
Researchers found eight-legged tardigrades, the speckled shell of a shrimp-like crustacean with legs dangling from it, and a second shell still bristling with delicate hairs.
The Army Air Corps was building up quickly in the late 1930s, with the emergence of new technologies and all-metal, multi-engine bombers, like the B-17 Flying Fortress, a plane bristling with machine guns to defend itself.
Their debut album is a bristling record loaded with New York snark supplied by Karen O’s impressive vocal turns.
This happened to me, this year, with This Is How We Disappear by Titilope Sonuga, a poetry collection of bristling imagination and intellect.
Already bristling from hearing him dismiss our beloved pastime as “the fake world”Cabana was suing Punk over alleged broken promises about covering legal fees from the Amann lawsuit.
Common combinations with bristling
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- bristling with 16×
- and bristling 5×
- bristling when 3×
- is bristling 3×
- into bristling 2×
- are bristling 2×
- of bristling 2×