Explore Bristly through 8 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like prickly or spiny. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Bristly meaning
- Covered with bristles.
- Easily antagonized; irascible; prone to bristling.
Synonyms of Bristly
Using Bristly
- The main meaning on this page is: Covered with bristles. | Easily antagonized; irascible; prone to bristling.
- Useful related words include: prickly, spiny, setaceous, setose.
- In the example corpus, bristly often appears in combinations such as: his bristly, and bristly.
Context around Bristly
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bristly
- In this selection, "bristly" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 27.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, face, hooked, short, relationship, nervy and moustache stand out and add context to how "bristly" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a short bristly and vertical and almost hispid bristly. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bristly" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bristly
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Epizoochorous taxa are limited to herbaceous Rubiaceae (e.g. Galium aparine fruits are densely covered with hooked bristly hairs). (19 words)
Meanwhile, the tycoon became as famous for his bristly relationship with the British establishment as he was for his investments. (20 words)
Many are well-camouflaged; others are aposematic with bright colours and bristly projections containing toxic chemicals obtained from their food plants. (21 words)
Born in 1963, exactly 100 years after Munch, Ms. Emin has been drawn to Munch since the start of her career, referencing his bristly, nervy painting style as far back as her graduating show from the Royal College of Art. (40 words)
The costume for kurenti involves a long-haired sheepskin suit that rises above the head into a fearsome, towering mask, decorated with bull horns, a wooden face, bristly moustache and lolling leather tongue. (33 words)
When a mask is used, it is usually flesh-hued with a large nose and a moustache that is either straight and bristly or turned up at the ends. (29 words)
Example sentences (8)
Meanwhile, the tycoon became as famous for his bristly relationship with the British establishment as he was for his investments.
Born in 1963, exactly 100 years after Munch, Ms. Emin has been drawn to Munch since the start of her career, referencing his bristly, nervy painting style as far back as her graduating show from the Royal College of Art.
The costume for kurenti involves a long-haired sheepskin suit that rises above the head into a fearsome, towering mask, decorated with bull horns, a wooden face, bristly moustache and lolling leather tongue.
Epizoochorous taxa are limited to herbaceous Rubiaceae (e.g. Galium aparine fruits are densely covered with hooked bristly hairs).
It also has a short, bristly, and vertical brown ridge of hair along the spine from the shoulder to the rump; the white stripes run into this ridge.
Many are well-camouflaged; others are aposematic with bright colours and bristly projections containing toxic chemicals obtained from their food plants.
The fur of northern subspecies is longer and denser than in southern forms, with the fur of some Mexican and Central American forms being almost hispid (bristly).
When a mask is used, it is usually flesh-hued with a large nose and a moustache that is either straight and bristly or turned up at the ends.
Common combinations with bristly
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: