- present participle of bristle.
bristling
Example Sentences
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Morgan, who was working at Bennigan’s when Texas Roadhouse recruited him in 1997, remembers bristling at the buy-in—and having to borrow from his parents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
The top is divided into 10-by-10 grids bristling with small colorful flags designating where the plants should be placed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2026
Or Santos bristling at her new boss’s insistence on clearing her charting backlog while tending cranky patients.
From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2026
Messi and his team-mates will head into the final bristling with confidence after another ruthless, high-scoring demolition job that followed on from their 4-0 drubbing of FC Cincinnati in the previous round.
From Barron's ● Nov. 30, 2025
He was an enormous whiteman with a bristling beard.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
