rustle

Example Sentences

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Do labor leaders really think they can’t rustle up a quarter of their members to ensure the union preserves its role in representing workers?

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

In the months leading up to the conference, with Belem's few hotels full, organizers scrambled to rustle up delegate accommodation in private homes, universities and schools.

From Barron's • Nov. 9, 2025

How about a nocturnal animal like an owl or those nighttime migrants – will they start to rustle from their roosts before they realize it’s not night?

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2024

She added doctors had little option but to discharge patients as they struggled to "rustle up" carers who were willing to risk their lives for minimum wage jobs.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2024

Neither did the rustle of mice in the corners.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn