bristling
present participle ofbristle
| 单词 | bristling |
| 释义 | bristling present participle ofbristle bristle verb uk/ˈbrɪs.əl/us/ˈbrɪs.əl/bristleverb(HAIR)[I] (ofhair) tostandup: The cat'sfurbristled and itarcheditsback. Moving upwards
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Protruding and sticking out bristleverb(REACT ANGRILY)toreactangrily: She bristledatthesuggestionthat she had in any wayneglectedthechild. Becoming angry and expressing anger
Phrasal verbbristle withsomething Examplesofbristlingbristling In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. This is a rich collection,bristlingwith new questions and challenges. From theCambridge English Corpus This is a book positivelybristlingwith personality and individuality and was a tonic to myflaggingopinion of the reference book. From theCambridge English Corpus The conditions that make this possible are numerous, complex andbristlingwith compromises. From theCambridge English Corpus Rather than delighting in an arrested infancy, he wasbristlingwith the violence of undirected and unloved adolescence. From theCambridge English Corpus Home to a nomadic hippy, it was encrusted with abristlingbaroque fantasy of plastic toys, plastic landscapes, silly scenes and shrines. From theCambridge English Corpus Indeed, it was all too quickly crowded off the agenda of official responses, by a governing culturebristlingwith revenge and self-justification. From theCambridge English Corpus But, for the most part, his prose, orderly, methodical, andbristlingwith careful anatomical measures, is free of aboriginal words. From theCambridge English Corpus It is an objectbristlingwith architectural and agricultural technology. From theCambridge English Corpus Matras clearly is fairlybristlingwith ideas + all to the good, but his style does the ideas a dis-service. From theCambridge English Corpus The whole subject is onebristlingwith technical difficulties. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Nowadays, fishing is less of an art and more of a science, with factory shipsbristlingwith electronic gadgetry and freezing equipment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I have to say, however, that the subject would be found to bebristlingwith difficulties, despite one's sympathy for it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 This is a subjectbristlingwith issues which merit wide discussion and sometimes more factual research than we have at the moment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 That "soft under-belly" is proving very much like abristlingporcupine. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Those questions were ingenious in their nature, very comprehensive andbristlingwith difficulties. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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