bustling
Example Sentences
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There, I met Dan, an affable middle-aged fellow with gray tufts of hair, who was bustling around with a vacuum.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
Kicking over the traces of domesticity, Aurore left her family for the capital in 1831 and quickly immersed herself in Paris’s bustling literary scene.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The initial idea was to promote tech start-ups, but its three bustling hubs also ran coding courses and gave advice on accessing international markets.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
At a bustling factory in western India, technicians work around the clock to turn glass into hair-thin fibre-optic strands destined for data centres powering the global artificial intelligence boom.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
In the bustling Arab town of Ramallah, everyone walked around carrying large mesh shopping bags.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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