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• He goes to the park to come away from the hustle and bustle of the city.From the entry come away
• He moved to his parents' farm to have a break from the hustle and bustle of the big city.From the entry hustle and bustle
• This place bustles with the fast-growing traffic of goods and raw materials moving between the two countries.2023 July 20, Anmol Mukhia, “Revisiting the case of ‘blood-brothers’: A constructivist approach in North Korea-China relations”, in…. From the entry Andong
• There was a rustle and a bustle and Tiddles reappeared, looking rather sheepish.2017, Jeremy Strong, Chariot Champions, Puffin, page 40. From the entry elephantish
• That had been the finale in the bustle of our supernaturally busy weeks.2009 October 6, Chloe Neill, “You Give Bite a Bad Name”, in Friday Night Bites (A Chicagoland Vampires Novel; 2), New York, N.Y.: New…. From the entry vampiricide
• Joe bustled back and offered her a glass of wine but she shook her head.2006, Lori Foster, Erin McCarthy, Amy Garvey, Bad Boys of Summer, →ISBN, page 91. From the entry water
• This renowned Franco-Levantine restaurant and bar provides a welcome escape from the bustle of the city centre.2001, Dorling Kindersley, Egypt, →ISBN, page 283. From the entry Franco-Levantine
• These days there's considerably less bustle, but it's still a much more lively place than Tungchu Island.1998, Robert Storey, “Islands of the Taiwan Straits”, in Taiwan (Lonely Planet), 4th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 323. From the entry Tungchu
• A bedjacket is almost as antiquated as a bustle or a dress shield.1993, Carol Shields, chapter 9, in The Stone Diaries, Toronto: Random House of Canada, page 331. From the entry bedjacket
• Make his suit hot pink and Gwendolyn's and Cecily's bustles bigger.1988 February 21, Paul Dixon, “Earnest It Is”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 31, page 6. From the entry bigger than life
• She turned towards the door, leaving Mr Sweetley face to face with that bustle, more quiversome than ever.2012, Edwina Preston, The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer. From the entry quiversome
• The entire premise of going camping is to escape from the hustle and bustle of our busy lives.2011 August 19, Roxanne Hooper, “Please, keep the wilderness wild”, in The Record, New Westminster, British Columbia. From the entry give one's head a shake
• Crump, having fortified himself with a bobstick of rum slim, moved cautiously among the crowds who bustled along Fleet Street.2010, Maggie MacKeever, The Baroness of Bow Street. From the entry slim
• Women bustled about laying out large platters of chicken, kielbasa rings, heaping bowls of golabki, pierogi and steaming tureens of barszcz.2004, Helen McCourt Mentek, “The Wheel of Life”, in Ripples on a Puddle: A Collection of Short Stories, Victoria, B.C.: Trafford…. From the entry barszcz
• The orderly arrived promptly in his well-pressed loose green tunic, good-morninged cheerfully, and bustled around locating bedroom slippers and dressing gown.1988 October 10, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, pages 83–84. From the entry good-morning
• The bustle and spirit of absorbing competition which so pervade modern life had not yet infected the Kapenaars.1926, P[ercy] W[ard] Laidler, A Tavern of the Ocean: Being a Social and Historical Sketch of Cape Town from Its Earliest Days, Cape Town…. From the entry Kapenaar
• He bustled into the office in his usual self‐important way.1907, Allen Chapman, Bound to Succeed. From the entry bombastic
• A dinner dress was of pink velvet made with a crystaled topped bodice and a huge bow of the velvet forming the bustle.1917 November 2, The Skirt [pseudonym], “Among the Women”, in Variety, volume XLVIII, number 10, New York, N.Y.: Variety, Inc., →ISSN…. From the entry crystaled
• Practically all the traffic between China and its great western dependency passes through Tachienlu, and the little town is full of bustle and stir.1913, Elizabeth Kendall, A Wayfarer in China: Impressions of a Trip Across West China and Mongolia, Houghton Mifflin Company, page 132. From the entry Tachienlu
• The excitement, and danger, and hurry and bustle constantly incident to travel at the present day were all unfelt and unfeared by this company.1900, John Kline, Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary. From the entry unfeared
• I’m not sure exactly how to classify Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo, as it’s a great combination of Zelda-like gameplay, mixed with the hustle and bustle of a Metroidvania.2025 May 28, Shaun Cichacki, “‘Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo’ Is the Perfect Callback to Yesteryear, Bringing GBA Flair to Modern…. From the entry Zeldavania
• In the hustle and bustle of Causeway Bay it’s hard to imagine that a small and quiet neighbourhood such as Tai Hang exists just minutes away.2015, “Walks”, in Hong Kong (The Monocle Travel Guide Series), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 136, column 1. From the entry Tai Hang
• Croissants and meringues make a Marie Antoinette wig; a shimmying flapper shift consists of thin langues-de-chat; oval slices of country bread form a bustle that literally trails into crumbs.2005 January, Cynthia Rose, “Pain Couture (High-Fashion Bread)”, in Crafts, number 192, Crafts Council, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 58. From the entry langue de chat
• Washington ("Oh, la, call me Martha, Boys") is a diminutive woman with a cheerful rather than happy air, who seems to bustle even when standing still..1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 229. From the entry diminutive
• She was right about the smell, so I walked a little distance away from the bustle and hurry of unsaddling and firemaking till I came to a small irrigation channel.2016, Lucy Coats, Chosen, London: Orchard Books, Hachette Children’s Group, →ISBN, page 19. From the entry unsaddling
• Sometimes the dedicated slugabed is rudely awakened by the yelling of builders, the bustle of housemates, the entreaties of toddlers or even dawn's rosy figures coming in at the window.2004, Tom Hodgkinson, “8 a.m.: Waking Up is Hard to Do”, in How to Be Idle, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN; How to Be Idle: A Loafer’s…. From the entry slugabed
• At the western perimeter the old railway station with its busy goods yards has become a bleak coach terminal: no bustle, no people, just an empty space and a timetable.1978, Eva Figes, chapter 12, in Little Eden: A Child at War, New York: Persea Books, page 124. From the entry goods yard

Meaning of bustle

1. noun An excited activity; a stir.
2. noun A cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine.
3. noun A frame worn underneath a woman's skirt, typically only protruding from the rear as opposed to the earlier more circular hoops.

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Questions about bustle in a sentence

How do you use bustle in a sentence?

Bustle is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The commuters bustled about inside the train station.”

What is a short sentence with bustle?

“The train station was bustling with commuters.”

What does bustle mean?

Bustle means an excited activity; a stir.