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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of rustle.

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Examples

  • There was hardly a leaf stirring on the trees over their heads, but the tall grain rustled and whispered of the abundance of harvest.

    The Second Chance 1910

  • The strange word rustled between them and the little girl felt an odd prickling beneath her skin.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • The strange word rustled between them and the little girl felt an odd prickling beneath her skin.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • The strange word rustled between them and the little girl felt an odd prickling beneath her skin.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • The strange word rustled between them and the little girl felt an odd prickling beneath her skin.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • The strange word rustled between them and the little girl felt an odd prickling beneath her skin.

    Kate Morton Ebook Collection Kate Morton 2008

  • The sword rustled on the grass, he seemed to be making a deafening sound, but the men walked on towards him.

    Sharpe's Eagle Cornwell, Bernard 1981

  • The sword rustled on the grass, he seemed to be making a deafening sound, but the men walked on towards him.

    Sharpe's Eagle Cornwell, Bernard 1981

  • The young bulls "rustled" splendidly, and as next spring came along there was much interest felt as to results.

    Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson

  • They "rustled" and "cached" and "packed" things without even stopping to think, and _r's_ were unmistakably creeping into Priscilla's strictly Bostonian speech.

    Virginia of Elk Creek Valley Mary Ellen Chase 1930

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