Vocabulary Word
Word: bristling
Definition: rising like bristles; showing irritation
Definition: rising like bristles; showing irritation
Sentences Containing 'bristling'
There was this amazing region, bristling with great towns, projected day before yesterday, so to speak, and built next morning.
A long room with three long rows of desks, and six of forms, and bristling all round with pegs for hats and slates.
Finding at last, however, that, although I had been all this time a very porcupine or hedgehog, bristling all over with determination, I had effected nothing, it began to occur to me that perhaps Dora's mind was already formed.
With matted beard, and swathed in a bristling shark-skin apron, about mid-day, Perth was standing between his forge and anvil, the latter placed upon an iron-wood log, with one hand holding a pike-head in the coals, and with the other at his forge's lungs, when Captain Ahab came along, carrying in his hand a small rusty-looking leathern bag.
Caught and twisted--corkscrewed in the mazes of the line, loose harpoons and lances, with all their bristling barbs and points, came flashing and dripping up to the chocks in the bows of Ahab's boat.
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::: breadth - width; extent
::: variegated - (esp. of a flower or leaf) many-colored
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