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Main Entry:	rustle [ruhs-uhl] Show IPA/ˈrʌsəl/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	whisper, swish
Synonyms:	crackle, crepitation, crinkling, friction, noise, patter, ripple, rustling, sound, stir

Main Entry:	crinkle
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	crumple, ruffle
Synonyms:	cockle, coil, crackle, crease, crimp, crimple, curl, fold, hiss, pucker, ruck, rumple, rustle, scallop, screw, scrunch, seam, swish, twist, whisper, wind, wreathe, wrinkle
Antonyms:	straighten

Main Entry:	dispatch
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	speed in carrying out action
Synonyms:	alacrity, celerity, expedition, expeditiousness, haste, hurry, hustle, precipitateness, promptitude, promptness, quickness, rapidity, rustle, speediness, swiftness
Antonyms:	retention, slowing

Example Sentences

Lunch arrives in a rustle of brown paper bags at a table under white birches.

Even if the authorities rustle up the money, they can ill afford to dawdle.

Tropic breezes rustle the palms, a turquoise sea laps white sand, and below the surface a coral reef teems with photogenic fish.

Lunch arrives in a rustle of brown paper bags at a table under white birches.

Even if the authorities rustle up the money, they can ill afford to dawdle.

Tropic breezes rustle the palms, a turquoise sea laps white sand, and below the surface a coral reef teems with photogenic fish.

The bedroom's lace curtains rustle in a cool spring breeze, filtering dots of sunlight onto a four-poster bed.

It's not difficult to rustle up some possible reasons for all this.

They might hear the rustle of paper, buses or birds outside the window, or students talking in the hallway.

Today, there is only the jungle, and the faint rustle of palms in the salt breeze.

It failed even to rustle up a candidate for comptroller.

The leaves of ten foot-tall poplar trees glisten in the sun and rustle in the wind.

The only sounds are the slight rustle of leaves and an occasional bird.

The turnout for registration was so low that the government had to extend the deadline by a week to rustle up voters.

With a rustle of branches, he goes deeper into the forest.

Shrubs with tiny leaves, turning red in autumn, rustle in the wind.

The artificial leaves won't rustle soothingly in a summer breeze, or change from green to red and fall to the ground in autumn.

To rustle up a little cash, he decides to produce a musical fashion show.

It is a story echoed often in the city: the quiet rustle in an entrenched neighborhood when a newer community arrives.

But inside the ivory towers it landed on many desks not so much with a thud as a rustle.

There is a rustle in the bushes and, mastering the temptation to flee, they grab the intruder.

Like bicycles, they get stolen, leaving their owners to rustle up new ones in the midst of a flag shortage.

New babies remain confined to cradle or crib and rarely rustle the bedding.

When you stop to listen, you can hear the rustle of trees and tires crunching on gravel.

The unrepeatable has turned into a minuet, dancing bears revolving in the limelight to the rustle of millions of dollars.

In the past few years there has been a rustle of academic activity focusing on food.

The lining may also bunch and peek out at the wrists and it may squeak and rustle when you walk.

Small-time politicians aspire to be warlords, using hired muscle to deter rivals and rustle up votes.

Woodpeckers hammer in the high branches, while on the forest floor dry leaves rustle with the scuttling of mud crabs.

For example it is advantageous to instantaneously interpret a rustle in the undergrowth as a predator rather than the wind.

Palms along a horse pasture rustle with the morning's first breeze, the swishing of a mare's tail.

As you plow through the crowds and rustle through the greens, you might want a little help focusing.

With the addition of the perfect frame, works of art may glow or gleam or rustle or whatever their makers intended them to.

Various countries have made constructive suggestions about how to rustle up cash.

The dawn is totally still, except for the rustle of leaves in the breeze and the cry of a cuckoo echoing through the hills.

Sunlight pours through four windows onto honey-colored wood floors while cotton curtains rustle in the ocean breeze.

The palm trees rustle in the trade winds, the long surf rolls upon the reefs.

Feste, proving that female filmmakers can rustle up distaff stereotypes as well as men, can only add a demographically canny amen.

Old women in lonely villages, hearing the rustle of the army through the corn, come forth with trays of sweetmeats.

Main Entry:	hum
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	buzz, vibrate
Synonyms:	bombilate, bombinate, bum, bumble, croon, drone, moan, mumble, murmur, purr, rustle, sing, sing low, sound, strum, throb, thrum, trill, warble, whir, whisper, zoom

Main Entry:	hurry
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	speed in action, motion
Synonyms:	bustle, celerity, commotion, dash, dispatch, drive, expedition, expeditiousness, flurry, haste, precipitance, precipitateness, precipitation, promptitude, push, quickness, rush, rustle, scurry, speediness, swiftness, urgency
Antonyms:	delay, procrastination, rest, slowness, stall, wait

Main Entry:	ransack
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	turn inside out in search; ravage
Synonyms:	appropriate, comb, despoil, explore, ferret, filch, go over with a fine-tooth comb, go through, gut, hunt, investigate, lay waste, leave no stone unturned, lift, look all over for, look high and low, look into, loot, make off with, maraud, overhaul, peer, pilfer, pillage, pinch, plunder, poach, probe, pry, purloin, raid, rake, rape, ravish, rifle, rob, rummage, rustle, sack, scan, scour, scrutinize, search, seek, seize, shake down, sound, spoil, spy, steal, strip, take away, thieve
Antonyms:	care for, clean, neaten, tidy

Main Entry:	roll
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	thunder, reverberate
Synonyms:	bombinate, boom, cannonade, drum, echo, growl, grumble, hum, pattern, quaver, rattle, re-echo, resound, roar, ruffle, rumble, rustle, sound, trill, whirr

Main Entry:	speed
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	rate of motion, often a high rate
Synonyms:	acceleration, activity, agility, alacrity, breeze, briskness, celerity, clip, dispatch, eagerness, expedition, fleetness, gait, haste, headway, hurry, hustle, legerity, lick, liveliness, momentum, pace, precipitancy, precipitation, promptitude, promptness, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, readiness, rush, rustle, snap, steam, swiftness, urgency, velocity
Notes:	speed is the distance an object travels during a unit of time; velocity is the distance an object travels in a specified direction during a unit of time

Main Entry:	stir
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	mix up, agitate
Synonyms:	beat, blend, disturb, flutter, mix, move, move about, quiver, rustle, shake, toss, tremble, whip, whisk
Antonyms:	leave alone

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