bristles

Example Sentences

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Elephants are born with about 1,000 of these bristles, lead author Andrew Schulz told AFP, many of them anchored in the trunk's wrinkles to act like feelers and help the animals assess their surroundings.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

The book bristles with insight and originality, interspersing Vara’s more journalistic expositions with excurses and fragments curated from the author’s expansive digital life.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025

Dr Xand says it's important to "focus on the sensation of the bristles" and approach tooth brushing mindfully, not scrolling on your phone at the same time.

From BBC • Nov. 2, 2025

Michelle bristles; those certainly don’t seem like hard numbers, but who is she to argue with this specific point?

From Salon • Oct. 31, 2025

More than two hundred screaming, sobbing, trembling and confused children jammed the badly ventilated hall, and, for lack of enough benches, most of us stood up like bristles.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane