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bustling

[buhs-ling] / ˈbʌs lɪŋ /








ADJECTIVE
humming
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STRONG
ADJECTIVE
hustling
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Example Sentences

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After being rocked by explosions, typically bustling Quetta lay quiet on Sunday, with major roads and businesses deserted, and people staying indoors out of fear.

From Barron's

“The Mary Tyler Moore Show” casts Minneapolis as progressive and neighborly, a bustling metropolis located between stereotypical Midwestern patriarchal stubbornness and a feminist future.

From Salon

How I wish Father had lived to see this bustling port city.

From Literature

The place was bustling with workers in hard hats and orange-and-yellow construction vests.

From Literature

Medford may have been her home, but Los Angeles was salvation, a bustling city the young woman arrived in the late summer of 1946 just after her birthday.

From Los Angeles Times