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• I could hear the soft rustle of the leaves in the trees.From the entry soft
• I'll see if I can rustle up a meal before the guests start arriving in 30 minutes.From the entry rustle up
• The trapper wore deerskins because they were softer than cow leather garments and rustled less than canvas.From the entry deerskin
• It really rustles my jimmies when my roommate blasts his stereo all day.From the entry rustle someone's jimmies
• The breeze rustled the papers on her desk.From the entry breeze
• 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
• Should I try find love with someone who really rustles my jimmies?2014, "True love Tracey", letter to "Letters To The Ductus Doctor", Ductus (University of Newcastle), Edition 2 (2014), page 37. From the entry rustle someone's jimmies
• Above us my flag, the Waterwheel emblem black on white, fissled and rustled.2010, Steph Swainston, Above the Snowline, Gollancz, →ISBN. From the entry fissle
• A bad placement will sound chesty, throaty, muffled, have obvious clothing rustle, or wind noise.2010, Richard Patton, Sound Man: An Introduction to the Art, Science, and Business of Location Sound, Location Sound Ltd., →ISBN, page 126. From the entry lav mic
• I hear a rustling in the bushes off to my right, and my trigger finger spasms.2006 March 29, Richard Daughty, 321gold. From the entry rustling
• Dogs were heard howling and there was a rustle in the silver wattle.2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 160. From the entry silver wattle
• Rustle up some coffee for me and a glass of cowjuice for him.1992, D[onald] M[ichael] Thomas, Flying in to Love, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →ISBN, page 221. From the entry cowjuice
• Meanwhile most of the deathling troop had rustled past them and fallen on the Taians.1980, Poul Anderson, Conan the Rebel, page 167. From the entry deathling
• They respond instantly to the faintest rustling in the covert of a sheaf of Ulysses S.1957, The Monthly Record, volume 61, page 22. From the entry ruby
• He appeared, hovering calf-eyed over a fragile and lovely creature whose skirts rustled silkenly as she moved.1939, Edna Ferber, chapter 9, in A Peculiar Treasure, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., page 145. From the entry silkenly
• At the rustle of a bandicoot we noticed the upraised gleam of eyes around the fires.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 149. From the entry bandicoot
• They sailed smilingly into the room, the woman ahead, rustling in a long, sparkly, black dress.1906, Geraldine Bonner, The Castlecourt Diamond Case, Part 2. From the entry sparkly
• Until Billy heard a rustling in the forest behind him.2015, Chris Grabenstein, The Island of Dr. Libris, page 60. From the entry now what
• Weiss, exploring not only all of his cymbals but all the areas of each cymbal, from rustles to darker, gonglike sounds.2009 June 25, Ben Ratliff, “Mixing the Prepared With the Impromptu”, in New York Times. From the entry nonwild
• In the browning corn fields here, the light breeze makes a tindery noise as it rustles the dry stalks.2007 July 4, Adam Nossiter, “Drought Saps the Southeast, and Its Farmers”, in New York Times. From the entry tindery
• Charlie boy, rustling was not for you, old man!1985 Summer, Jan Carew, “Tilson Ezekiel Alias Ti-Zek”, in New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly, volume VII, number 4, Lyme, N.H.…. From the entry prags
• There were rustling sounds from the tent and the sides pooched out as if they were trying to stand up.1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 21, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 124. From the entry pooch
• I heard the dry-leaf rustle of onionskin papers.1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 406. From the entry onionskin
• She was formal in manner, and made calls in rustling, steel-gray brocades and a tall bonnet with bristling aigrettes.1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Book 2, Chapter 11, p. 241. From the entry aigrette
• Stringham, who rustled in a little breathless and full of the compunction of having had to come alone.1902, Henry James, The Wings of the Dove. From the entry scratch
• These make no rustle save Some pine-cone dropt, or murmur that condemns Murmur; bedumb'd with moss that giant nave.1901, Herbert Trench, Deirdre wed and other poems - Page 39. From the entry bedumb
• Reeds shoot out of the water, rustling when the fish swim through them, and river-washed stones are sprinkled in a bed of sand.2013, P.J. Hoover, Solstice, →ISBN, page 355. From the entry down
• Keep checking your home and farm security – thieves never sleep and rustling small mobs of stock on lifestyle blocks is on the rise.2009 January 3, “Farming Diary for March”, in LSB. From the entry lifestyle block
• Las Vegas—“The Meadows” in Spanish—was a hodgepodge of adobe houses, set among rustling cornfields irrigated by a muddy acequia that seeped from the Gallinas River.2006, Hampton Sides, Blood and Thunder, Abacus, published 2014, page 3. From the entry acequia
• When Ma is about to "get it" in the back in White Heat, the dark Sant'Ana wind, rustling leaves ominously, adds heat to the treachery.2005, John Rechy, Beneath the Skin: The Collected Essays, page 258. From the entry Santana wind
• They beseiged manorial overseers to adjudicate disputes concerning ownership of rustled livestock or damage to crops caused by strayed (or deliberately misherded) animals.1988, Dwight B. Heath, Contemporary Cultures and Societies of Latin America, page 204. From the entry misherd
• As the rustling of dry leaves strewn in a flagged court when a sudden wind striketh them, there went a stir among the guests.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 10. From the entry flagged
• And if you would like one more fact about this worthy, he was responsible for an Act on the statute book abolishing the death penalty for cattle rustling.2021 September 22, Stephen Roberts, “The writings on the wall...”, in RAIL, number 940, page 71. From the entry rustling
• The same dynamics can be seen in starlings: On clear winter evenings, murmurations of the tiny blackish birds gather in Rome’s sunset skies, wheeling about like rustling cloth.2013 March 19, Ed Yong, “How the Science of Swarms Can Help Us Fight Cancer and Predict the Future”, in WIRED, archived from the original…. From the entry murmuration
• A momentary silence followed, and then I heard tiny gasps and frightened tskings, scuffling footsteps, the rustling of rain slickers, and the annoyed mumbling of the priest.2004, Rosemary Mahoney, The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground, page 83. From the entry tsking
• And he quickly changed the subject as the first of the afternoon clouds cottoned the sky and laid shadows across Marlin Hardwick's rustling, winding, scuttling and bird-calling yard.2000, Elizabeth Stead, The Fishcastle, page 124. From the entry cotton
• From the trees comes the doleful cry of the black-faced dioch, and the weary rustle of galagos creeping back to their nests after a meticulous night's prowl.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 146. From the entry galago
• The screeching of brakes, the monotonous blare of motor horns, the clip-clip of shoes on slippery pavements, the rustling of wet mackintoshes were all part of the great metropolis.1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XXII, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 214. From the entry motor
• On his belly he wriggles up to the sanda's hole, rustling the tuft of grass with a noise which resembles the crackling of a snake's scales.1913, Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, page 122. From the entry sanda

Meaning of rustle

1. noun A soft crackling sound similar to the movement of dry leaves.
2. noun A movement producing such a sound.
3. verb To move (something) with a soft crackling sound.

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Questions about rustle in a sentence

How do you use rustle in a sentence?

Rustle is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I could hear the soft rustle of the leaves in the trees.”

What is a short sentence with rustle?

“I heard the dry-leaf rustle of onionskin papers.”

What does rustle mean?

Rustle means a soft crackling sound similar to the movement of dry leaves.