BUSTLING in a Sentence

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The older, quieter cities were wont to look upon the bustling new town with the sensations of a hen which has hatched a duckling.

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 Meanings and Examples of BUSTLING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bustling
 a.  full of activity;
Classic Sentence: (106 in 8 pages)
1  The older, quieter cities were wont to look upon the bustling new town with the sensations of a hen which has hatched a duckling.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  It was inconceivable that the bustling town they knew, so full of people, so crowded with soldiers, was gone.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
3  Underneath the surface were misery and fear, but all the outward appearances were those of a thriving town that was rapidly rebuilding from its ruins, a bustling, hurrying town.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  Atlanta, with its noises, its new buildings, its strange faces, its narrow streets crowded with horses and wagons and bustling crowds sometimes seemed to stifle her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
5  Hugh was a vulgarian; a bustling business man.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  "I'll have it ready in little or no time," he said, bustling and packing away his tools.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXIX
7  The melancholy march was continually disturbed by the messengers, and sometimes by bustling batteries that came swinging and thumping down upon them, the officers shouting orders to clear the way.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
8  He had the bustling ways of an amateur nurse.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
9  Now," said Aunt Chloe, bustling about after breakfast, "I must put up yer clothes.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
10  The conversation was here interrupted by a busy hum in the audience; and the auctioneer, a short, bustling, important fellow, elbowed his way into the crowd.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
11  The under-servants, who were called on to effect this movement, were running and bustling about with great zeal and confusion, when Legree returned from a ride.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
12  Five minutes passed; bustling and whispering could be heard in the next room.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
13  And Vassily Ivanovitch went bustling forward, scraping and flapping with his slippers trodden down at heel.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
14  and the count began bustling to get out his pocketbook.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII
15  Servants with lanterns were bustling about in the porch.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVIII
Example Sentence:
1  It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever.
2  David and the children bustle about the house getting in each other's way as they try to pack for the camping trip.
3  The garden was a haven from the noise and bustle of the city.
4  She bustled about trying to wait on two customers at once.
5  Thora bustled about the flat, getting everything ready.