BRISTLY in a Sentence

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Example sentences for BRISTLY, such as:

1. She veiled her eyes with thick bristly lashes and moved a little closer to him.
2. Her eyes were pale green without a touch of hazel, starred with bristly black lashes and slightly tilted at the ends.

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 Meanings and Examples of BRISTLY
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bristly
 a.  having or covered with protective barbs or others; very irritable
Classic Sentence:
1  Her eyes were pale green without a touch of hazel, starred with bristly black lashes and slightly tilted at the ends.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  But she smiled when she spoke, consciously deepening her dimple and fluttering her bristly black lashes as swiftly as butterflies' wings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  She veiled her eyes with thick bristly lashes and moved a little closer to him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
4  The poor fowl was thin, and covered with one of those thick, bristly skins through which the teeth cannot penetrate with all their efforts.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 32 A PROCURATOR'S DINNER
5  Around are slain in sacrifice oxen many in number, and bristly swine and cattle gathered out of all the country are slaughtered over the flames.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
Example Sentence:
1  His black eyes were restless, sly, and cunning; his mouth and chin bristly with a coarse, hard beard; his face never clean, but always distorted with a ghastly grin.