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Example sentences for "bustling"

Lexicographically close words:
bustin; busting; bustle; bustled; bustles; busto; busts; busy; busybodies; busybody
  1. It is a little cowardly to quit our posts in a bustling time.

  2. C'est lui,' screamed Madame Melmotte, bustling up from her seat and hurrying out of the room by a side door.

  3. Then bustling off, taking an affectionate adieu of Paul, shaking hands with them all round, and looking as though he cared nothing for the money, he took his leave.

  4. But Duncan was bustling about the room in aimless delight.

  5. Mr. Watson came bustling over nervously to confer with the choir leader.

  6. Come away in, come away;" he drew up his best chair to the fire, and set his guest into it, bustling around and in every way he could ministering to his comfort.

  7. Doesn't look like a very bustling place, does it?

  8. Jacob Farnum was bustling about, although, as far as could be seen, his only impulse was sheer excitement.

  9. The fair was a little bustling fair, attended by plenty of people from the country, and from the English border, and by some who appeared to come from a greater distance than the border.

  10. Had she consulted me, she should have made Her moral play a speaking masquerade; Warm'd up each bustling scene, and in her rage Have emptied all the green-room on the stage.

  11. So that with eating above stairs, and drinking below; with receiving your friends within, and amusing them without, you lead a good pleasant bustling life of it.

  12. Davenport, bustling into the invalid's room with the little double sheet of note paper fluttering in his hand.

  13. Walter Pater' would have signified no style, but an unslakable thirst for information, and a bustling human sympathy, and power of carrying things through.

  14. In the height of these new houses, in the width of these new roads, future students will find, doubtless, something characteristic of this pressing and bustling age.

  15. June came bustling in; she was flushed and breathless, and laden with flowers, fan, and gloves, all of which she dropped to the sofa.

  16. June was bustling about, making a great clatter with the teacups.

  17. June was bustling about the room fetching cushions and a light rug which she had laid over Esther.

  18. When I awoke in the morning I saw Nancy alone bustling about the room.

  19. It was a thriving, bustling place; the inhabitants, people from all the northern nations of Europe, mostly engaged in mercantile pursuits.

  20. Then a bustling ensued as several cooks busied themselves in frying ham, as well as some potatoes that had already been boiled at home.

  21. At the time they left Camp Garrity it presented quite a bustling picture.

  22. Stay for ever," asserted Nurse in her bustling voice.

  23. In the meantime Derues, through his bustling and ubiquitous friend Bertin, took good care that the story of Mme.

  24. When I wrote those dreamy sketches, I little thought that I should ever preface an edition for the press amidst the bustling life of a Liverpool consulate.

  25. Amid its false excitement, its bustling invention, and its endless toil, a profound melancholy broods over its spirit and gnaws at its heart.

  26. Placed in a high post in an age of political analysis, the bustling intermeddler was unable to supply society with a single solution.

  27. In process of time the Gran Capitan came bustling from Granada.

  28. Bustling Barcelona, never too busy for a frolic, keeps it merrily with an elaborate parade from the cathedral all about the city, and--delightful feature!

  29. I can well imagine that some one who loved what was old and quiet might have thought it even then a very bustling modern affair, and heaved a sigh over the progress that had made it possible.

  30. The encampment of the returning caravan was in a little pasture well outside the town and it was the scene of bustling activity.

  31. In various towns of Germany I found myself admiring the cheerful, bustling gemutlichkeit of the people, the splendid organization of their civic life, their industry and national spirit.

  32. Miriam came bustling in, with a grim, set face.

  33. I had finished shaving, and was admiring the velvety skin that I had coaxed into prominence, when Letitia came bustling in, very serious and important.

  34. Even while she was listening to our history she was bustling about, arranging things, and--of course!

  35. Take your fare, gem'men," cried a bustling personage, at this moment.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bustling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.