Explore Rustled through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Rustled meaning
simple past and past participle of rustle
Using Rustled
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of rustle
- In the example corpus, rustled often appears in combinations such as: rustled cattle, and rustled, the rustled.
Context around Rustled
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 6 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Rustled
- In this selection, "rustled" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 26.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, shemtov, cows, 115, cattle and cows stand out and add context to how "rustled" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include girls and rustled cattle and 1 and rustled cows belonging. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "rustled" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with rustled
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Mallory rustled up oxygen equipment for a last-ditch effort. (10 words)
Shemtov rustled up food that otherwise would have gone to waste, including from their own shelves. (16 words)
The cattle is suspected to have been rustled and moved into Foron, also in Barkin Ladi. (16 words)
The chapel was freezing cold, as all the stained glass had been safely stored and replaced with blackout material and gray tar paper, which must have added its own peculiar percussion to the service as it rustled in the wind. (40 words)
Enenche said the troops received a distress call at about 11:30 pm. on Saturday from locals at Mahuta village that suspected bandits were moving with unconfirmed numbers of Islamiya children mostly girls and rustled cattle. (36 words)
The presidential spokesman indicated in the statement that information available to the Presidency showed that about 100 cattle had been rustled by a community in Plateau State, and some herdsmen were killed in the process. (35 words)
Example sentences (16)
During the fierce battle, troops superior fire power forced bandits to abandon the children and the rustled cattle thereby forcing the bandits to flee in disarray into the forest.
Enenche said the troops received a distress call at about 11:30 pm. on Saturday from locals at Mahuta village that suspected bandits were moving with unconfirmed numbers of Islamiya children mostly girls and rustled cattle.
In a separate feedback, troops and police this morning foiled another attempt by bandits to cross the Kaduna-Abuja highway with rustled cattle, this time around Greenfield University.
Relatedly, troops deployed at Safana, responding to a distress call foiled an armed bandits attack and recovered several rustled cattle at Danyegeya village in Safana Local Government Area.
Shemtov rustled up food that otherwise would have gone to waste, including from their own shelves.
The statement read: “Troops received a distress call about 11:30 pm on December 19 from locals at Mahuta village, that suspected bandits were moving with some Islamiya pupils, mostly girls, and rustled cattle.
A source, who pleaded anonymity, said by the time the dust settled, seven vigilantes and one policeman were confirmed dead in the crossfire, even as the gunmen escaped with the rustled cows.
However instead of the 20 persons reported the police disclosed that 21 persons were actually killed, 10 houses destroyed and 50 cows rustled.
Shehu said that the attackers invaded Zakuna in the early hour of June 1 and rustled cows belonging to villagers.
The cattle is suspected to have been rustled and moved into Foron, also in Barkin Ladi.
The chapel was freezing cold, as all the stained glass had been safely stored and replaced with blackout material and gray tar paper, which must have added its own peculiar percussion to the service as it rustled in the wind.
The police chief also said the command recovered 115 rustled cows belonging to Mr Ibrahim Sulaiman of Sabo Gida-Karnar Community in Jos LGA.
The presidential spokesman indicated in the statement that information available to the Presidency showed that about 100 cattle had been rustled by a community in Plateau State, and some herdsmen were killed in the process.
We also saw the President’s decisive action when Fulani cattle were allegedly rustled in Kaduna, Nasarawa and Zamfara state.
Commander Carrion stated that the contras consisted of insignificant bands of poorly armed and poorly organized members of Somoza's National Guard, who carried out uncoordinated border raids and rustled cattle (presumably for food).
Mallory rustled up oxygen equipment for a last-ditch effort.
Common combinations with rustled
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- rustled cattle 7×
- and rustled 4×
- the rustled 3×
- rustled cows 3×
- rustled up 2×
- been rustled 2×
- rustled in 2×