rustle

There was a rustle and a flash of black.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

Here you can almost hear the sound of the marching soldiers’ boots striking the ground and the rustle of their equipment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Our ancestors whose attention drifted past the rustle in the grass left fewer descendants than those who froze, looked and listened.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 16, 2026

There is no rustle of pages or stacks of best-selling novels at the pop-up store opened by the Amazon subsidiary on the Lower East Side in Manhattan.

From Barron's ● May 2, 2026

Her progress was almost completely noiseless; she chose her path where the earth was bare, or where grass grew, and she avoided dead leaves, which would rustle and crackle even under her small weight.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

The shadows and rustles of forests are natural fodder for fear, especially if you’re not used to them, but among those who know, the Appalachians are another beast entirely.

From National Geographic ● Oct. 13, 2023

A gentle wind rustles the pine trees that swaddle the health resort, described by one guidebook as “a perfect spot for a romantic evening.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2020

It rustles through the air, then softly lands against your chest, just as he planned.

From Slate ● May 30, 2020

But what comes through all the convolutions is a paradoxically pastoral warmth: earnest, yearning melodies and music that rustles and burbles like a digitally enchanted forest.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2019

He turned away, shutting his eyes, but that was even worse, for now he had only the sounds, the tiny maddening, indefatigable, distinct clicks and rustles of hands and weightless parts.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Outside of the Huddleston family home, a “Don’t Tread on Me” flag rustled in the yard next to a DirecTV satellite dish.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

In the last row of his fields in southeastern France, the wind rustled through the brown leaves of vines that overheated during a blaze that swept the region this summer.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

As the wind kicked up, the wishes rustled, as if in conversation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

And one, the veteran campaigner Graeme McCormick had rustled up enough supporters to force a leadership contest.

From BBC ● May 6, 2024

Mother’s zinnias stood sad and brown and rustled like straw in the wind.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen

For 45 years, Alyson Dee Moore made the sounds that movies needed — the footsteps, the rustling clothes and doors swinging shut.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Mr. Griffin made his money rustling feral hogs to sell at market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Wearing a thick navy jacket over a wool sweater, Ivannikov, the head of the department of tropical and subtropical plants, picked up a leaf that had just come rustling down.

From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026

"I was in the toilet when I heard somebody rustling a bag in one of the cubicles", he said.

From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025

All of the papers fold themselves into elaborate shapes: pyramids and helixes and paper birds with rustling wings.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern