bristle

“I bristle sometimes with the attitude that like, ‘Wow, we’re all going to hell, ha ha ha!’

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Not in my favor: I cannot abide hippie culture, bristle at the slightest whiff of woo woo and balk reflexively at the phrase “loving kindness,” which immediately calls to mind the worst person I know.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

And if interviewers bristle at questions or dodge them, that could be a red flag.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 3, 2026

Most belonged to groups such as marine bristle worms, crustaceans, and mollusks, including snails and mussels.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2026

His face reddened, and his short blond hair seemed to bristle all over his head.

From "The Landry News" by Andrew Clements

The White House also bristles at Amodei's repeated warnings about the dangers of AI -- including the impact on jobs -- and his calls to regulate its deployment like airlines or banks.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

His wife hated the new bristles, but he let them grow fuller and wilder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

Elephants are born with about 1,000 of these bristles, lead author Andrew Schulz told AFP, many of them anchored in the trunk's wrinkles to act like feelers and help the animals assess their surroundings.

From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026

Manning bristles at the terms “arm talent” and proclamations that a certain quarterback can “spin it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025

They came at Old Yeller with their bristles up, roaring and popping their teeth.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

In a tense opening set, Sabalenka bristled with frustration early on as unforced errors crept into her game while Pegula settled quickly and struck the ball cleanly.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Under Moreno, the city bristled, the “of Anaheim” part of “Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim” had disappeared.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

The White House has also bristled at Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's repeated warnings about the dangers of AI -- including the impact on jobs.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

Aronowitz has bristled at this sort of criticism.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

He trades in fountain pens for ballpoints, Wilkinson blades and his boar- bristled shaving brush for Bic razors bought six to a pack.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

A few blocks away, members of another branch of the House of Rothschild were bristling over the reputational knock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

But in terms of its actual content, the statement was pretty thin gruel, bristling with public relations-style circumlocution and vagueness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2026

Or Santos bristling at her new boss’s insistence on clearing her charting backlog while tending cranky patients.

From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2026

Smith, moustache bristling, bravely taking on the terrifying West Indies pace attack or battling it out against the unrelenting Australians, was a familiar sight for England supporters for nearly a decade.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025

Every so often he’d stop, bristling, and she would turn aside from the entrance she’d been about to go down.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman