How to Use bristle with (something) in a Sentence

bristle with (something)

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  • Parts of the mechanical systems are stashed in the base of the fins, and the passages from base to shaft to crown bristle with complexities.
    — Curbed, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The lyrics bristle with local slang, and the music videos are bathed in the noir glow of Motor City back streets and strip malls.
    — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
  • On a day in January, dead grasses bristle with ice along the edges of long cracks in the earth, and wisps of gas drift here and there.
    — Kristin Ohlson, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2011
  • In her place is a creature hunched atop four clawed-footed legs that bristle with pine cone scales.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 18 June 2020
  • Now the winding ridges that make up the capital bristle with buildings like a little Hong Kong in the middle of a jungle.
    — Eric Bellman, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2021
  • The more than 260 paintings, photographs and films here bristle with desire, and sometimes relish bad taste.
    — New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Gentle valleys that bristle with forests of saguaros stretch between ranges of craggy mountains.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Health and fitness is where the action’s at these days, though—many watches now bristle with sensors that can track your ECG, heart rate, heart rhythm, blood oxygen level and more.
    — Dave Johnson, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
  • In New York City, where the local bulletin boards bristle with ads for lessons of all stripes—improv theater, sausage making, tarot card reading—this wasn’t a problem.
    — Tom Vanderbilt, Wired, 4 Feb. 2021
  • Both bristle with Latin folk and popular idioms, the pairing maybe an overload of similar effects.
    — Dallas News, 24 Feb. 2023
  • One leg of America’s nuclear triad, the subs are designed to be ultra-quiet, bristle with nuclear weapons, and survive to carry out their mission at all costs.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2023
  • Even the more minor titles in his filmography bristle with invention.
    — Adam Nayman, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Ideally, Christmas means falling in love with your siblings again over egg nog as your parents bristle with the excitement of having you all together under one roof and force-feed you chocolate.
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2020
  • And yet, these people — who bristle with sinister entitlement — are not accustomed to being turned down.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2021
  • In the posh Tuscan port town of Forte dei Marmi, the gaudy vacation homes for moneyed seasonal visitors all bristle with security cameras that surveil every square inch of space.
    — Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 23 June 2021
  • Twigs aren’t without beauty; at farmers markets, garden centers and floral shops, buckets of branches bristle with color, texture and form.
    — Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Nearby, the River Market District hums with activity day and night while other pockets of the urban area on both sides of Interstate 630 bristle with new restaurants, residential and office space, or speak of such things to come.
    — Dwain Hebda, Arkansas Online, 7 May 2023
  • Meanwhile, car companies are logging huge volumes of information on automobile performance and the behaviors of drivers and passengers inside the cars, which now bristle with so much technology that some call them iPhones on wheels.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2021
  • How on Earth could the man from Stratford, with his apparently limited education and experience, possibly be the author of the plays of Shakespeare, which bristle with higher learning and echo with an enormous range of exotic life-experiences?
    — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Mar. 2021
  • From the tips of their antennae to the bottoms of their little insect feet, these human-loving mosquitoes bristle with human-sensing accoutrement, says Leslie Vosshall, a neurobiologist at Rockefeller University.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Goosed along by Cliff Martinez’s ghostly electronic score, Soderbergh taps into our collective inner hypochondriac, making every character’s sniffle or rubbed eye bristle with potential danger.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 7 July 2021

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