bustling

Example Sentences

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This bustling scene is one the EAC once hoped would cease to exist.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

“It was unmistakable, the sense of impending opportunity,” said Jon Hughes, the chief executive of boutique energy investment bank Petrie Partners, who visited the bustling hotel last week.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

The tit-for-tat escalation cooled off after Trump and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping agreed to a one-year truce in October, but manufacturers at the bustling Guangdong market told AFP that US orders had dwindled.

From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026

In October 2020, she had told him not to go out as widespread anti-police brutality demonstrations, known as the End Sars protests, swept into his area of Lagos, Nigeria's bustling commercial heart.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

The place was bustling with workers in hard hats and orange-and-yellow construction vests.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste