bustling
Example Sentences
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The tit-for-tat escalation cooled off after Trump and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping agreed to a one-year truce in October, but manufacturers at the bustling Guangdong market told AFP that US orders had dwindled.
From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026
In October 2020, she had told him not to go out as widespread anti-police brutality demonstrations, known as the End Sars protests, swept into his area of Lagos, Nigeria's bustling commercial heart.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
The two men wondered aloud what thousands of new submarine builders would mean for Thames Street, once a bustling downtown and now a row of vacant storefronts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
In the book, subtitled “Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World,” Ms. Simard writes with great affection of the bustling rhythms of forest life.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Just as Dad reached for the box with Kung Pao chicken, Mom came bustling through the front door, sending Fig in a crazed scamper toward my room.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
