[
US
/ˈbɹɪsəɫ/
]
[ UK /bɹˈɪsəl/ ]
[ UK /bɹˈɪsəl/ ]
NOUN
- a stiff hair
- a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic
VERB
-
rise up as in fear
It was a sight to make one's hair uprise!
The dog's fur bristled -
be in a state of movement or action
The room abounded with screaming children
The garden bristled with toddlers -
react in an offended or angry manner
He bristled at her suggestion that he should teach her how to use the program -
have or be thickly covered with or as if with bristles
bristling leaves
How To Use bristle In A Sentence
- Cooper felt herself instinctively bristle at Sasha's use of the nickname she hated. CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 6: RING OF LIGHT
- I disagreed with something…kind of bristled at how something was characterized and was piled on. Scott Brown Posed in Cosmo’s Center-Fold 28 Years Ago — And So What? - Dan_Perrin’s blog - RedState
- In the wild there is no piste patrol to pick up the pieces, and the mountains bristle with rocks, cliffs and cornices.
- Each peak induces a cell locally to divide and form a bristle.
- There was silence in the room, but only because Arnold did not bristle audibly. A CONVICTION OF GUILT
- He never merely asserts: every paragraph bristles with footnotes and quiet exposition.
- Sweep on the base colour with a powder brush, blending outwards, then take a good-quality blusher brush with domed bristles try the Body Shop or Mac and grin insincerely so cheeks fatten in the middle. Beauty: Blushers
- The flowers are borne at the height of 2ft. to 3ft., and are produced singly on very thick, rigid stalks, long, nearly nude, grooved, furnished with numerous short, bristle-like hairs, and gradually thickening up to the involucrum of the flower. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
- Lewis bristles at the suggestion he's here to legitimize his acting.
- It is not easy to imagine two objects more widely different in appearance than a bristle or vibraculum, and an avicularium like the head of a bird; yet they are almost certainly homologous and have been developed from the same common source, namely a zooid with its cell. VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection