bristle

Example Sentences

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I’m walking back to the locker room to change when a short kid with hair gelled up into toothbrush-like bristles and neon-blue sneakers joins me.

From Literature

But in terms of its actual content, the statement was pretty thin gruel, bristling with public relations-style circumlocution and vagueness.

From Los Angeles Times

If it were her back or another tough area that warranted a good scratch, she would use the bristle end of a broom.

From BBC

At first if people said her business was her baby, she would bristle.

From BBC

She also has been a reporter for more than three decades, including the last 18 years at the Free Press, and bristles at being labeled “fake media.”

From Los Angeles Times