bristle

Example Sentences

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

From Science Daily

Mal’s face was getting tighter and more exhausted, and Christopher bristled.

From Literature

Cohen bristles at the term meme stock, telling the Journal it is “a label people use when they don’t want to do the work” on a stock.

From The Wall Street Journal

I’m walking back to the locker room to change when a short kid with hair gelled up into toothbrush-like bristles and neon-blue sneakers joins me.

From Literature

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