bristles

Example Sentences

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Bristles may be better than wings for very small constructions.

From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2018

The application, hundreds of pages long, included an extensive history of a brush-bristle manufacturer, the New China Bristles Company, which Sung’s father owned.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 12, 2015

Philadelphia Fatback & Bristles Sirs: Let me congratulate you; it was a well-chosen word, aptly used.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bristles 1-3 at the base of each spikelet — 7. 7a.

From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Gleason, Henry Allan

Bristles of the pappus united at the very base into a ring, so falling off all together.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa