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  • noun Plural form of bustle.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bustle.

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Examples

  • Inside, Lizzy bustles about the kitchen in a homemade tie-dyed apron, setting the dinner table in the sparsely furnished but tidy front room, the walls of which bear dozens of family photographs and a large painting of Jesus.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • After your eyes expand over the valley, they are drawn back in to the skirt of the citadel, which bustles with café life.

    French history 2010

  • The children have their colorful piñatas and the adult celebrations begin as the entire downtown area bustles with activity and music.

    Christmas in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 2009

  • She bustles in from the cold, and we get straight to talking about the campaign.

    The Saturday interview: Jo Swinson, Liberal Democrat MP 2012

  • The children have their colorful piñatas and the adult celebrations begin as the entire downtown area bustles with activity and music.

    Christmas in Mexico 2009

  • The set often bustles with activity as the characters busy themselves with stacking wood and other chores.

    'Wind' energy powers musical Celia Wren 2011

  • Now British people are doing it too – mooning around castles and manors, yearning for bustles, butlers and the "olden days".

    Just for a moment, I wanted a burkini too | Barbara Ellen 2011

  • After your eyes expand over the valley, they are drawn back in to the skirt of the citadel, which bustles with café life.

    French Word-A-Day: 2010

  • It shakes me, seeing her like that, and I ask if anything is bothering her, but she claims not, and bustles about, lighting the stove and warming the chicken fat and the bread.

    Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011

  • The children have their colorful piñatas and the adult celebrations begin as the entire downtown area bustles with activity and music.

    Christmas in Mexico 2009

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