How To Use Bristly In A Sentence

Their baleen plates have bristly inner edges that intertwine to form a strainer or filter.
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The bandleader, who doubles as the vocalist, is a small, nimble man with a mobile face and dark, bristly hair.
She finds his beard too bristly.
The seeds of bristly sarsaparilla, currant, and soapberry lie dormant in the soil and germinate only after being burned; ecologists call the process ‘seed banking.’

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They have a soft leathery texture and the margins are sometimes crisped and smooth or ciliolate or bristly.
They were still comically stiff-legged and bristly as they aloofly sniffed noses. CHAPTER XXXV
He had long, wiry black hair, and a bristly goatee-beard-mustache combination around his lower face.
Page 169 pines, rise like slender columns, and are crowned with a tuft of knarly limbs and long, bristly leaves, through which the breezes murmur with a monotonous sound, much like that of falling waters, or waves breaking on a beach. The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive
In fact, I once saw a woman sitting on the ground with a bristly little piglet on her lap.
We also felt the furs of an opossum (soft) and collared peccary, also known as a javelina (stiff and bristly). Statesman - AP Sports
His uniform - the one he'd always worn - was green with age and his whiskers were grey and bristly.
The caudex is altogether similar in structure to that of Alsophyla, equally furnished with strong black bristly radicles towards its base. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
The bristly bines grow 10 feet tall or higher, and can be an irritant. Beer: The pursuit of hoppiness
He had a rather bristly mustache beneath his nose, and walked with the deliberation of a turtle.
Wearing a seemingly unlimited supply of colorful hand-knitted sweater-vests, Gustave had the whitest hair Byron had ever seen, with a bristly set of eyebrows that, other than up close, looked virtually invisible against his face. Unearthly Asylum
His angular features were accented by a short bristly goatee, and a single black curl fell on his forehead.
His big bristly moustache twitched at the edges.
And the scrunt, a wolf-size beast with a bristlygrass coat, will give kids a good fright. Reviewing the Reviews: 'Lady in the Water' | EW.com
She looked at me after feeling the bristly hairs brush against her face again.
Still, it's difficult to imagine these hard, brown things with bristly bottoms pushing out such incredible blooms.
The creature was covered from mouth to tailfin in thick, bristly hairs.
Another trick used by chimps is to swallow bristly leaves whole, which irritate their stomachs and induce diarrhoea, flushing out tapeworms and other gut parasites.
a horse with a short bristly mane
He was a short man with long unkempt hair and a bristly unshaved chin.
Perhaps it would be a little shore crab that betrayed itself by scuffling down amongst the corallite or sea-weed, perhaps a little fierce-looking bristly fish, which shot under a ledge of the rock all amongst the limpets, acorn barnacles, or the thousands of yellow and brown and striped snaily fellows that crawled about in company with the periwinkles and pelican's feet. Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore
Flying foxes have a long bristly tongue that's great for lapping up juicy fruit, and for licking and grooming themselves and their friends!
One of these thin, sallow, dyspeptic parties, with deep lines down either side of his mouth, a bristly, jutty little mustache, and ratty little eyes. The House of Torchy
We kissed once more and I stroked his bristly face.
You know, Chris had bristly eyebrows, and before we met he always had the barber trim them. Christopher Isherwood remembered: 'Chris always loved young men, and I was certainly young'
Echimyids earn their common name because most species have spiny or bristly hairs at least on their backs and rumps.
bristly shrubs
His bristly red hair was standing on end.
His bristly red hair was standing on end.
Thorne: Kent's bristly personality can't erase Hall of Fame career Thorne: Kent's bristly personality can't erase Hall of Fame career
Mr. Gershwin, a rather catlike man with an intelligent face and bristly whiskers, began.
They looked like sunken fat cactuses, as a result of sporadic bristly hairs dotting their bulbous backs.
They suffer little from disease and spread (some wilfully) by throwing up new suckers or shoots each year, forming a bristly, neat thicket.
I could only just discern the bristly tops of trees.
He had dark wavy hair, dark blue eyes and a bristly chin.
National Action Party in 1994, he has been known as a bristly, cigar-chomping wheeler-dealer who seldom commented on, or acknowledged the existence of, Mexico's poor. Kansas City Star: Front Page
Cluster flies are bristly gray insects, about five times bigger than the ordinary housefly, Musca domestica.
As he makes the rounds at the zoo, Svitalsky stops to tweak a bristly, football-size ear, provoking a snort of delight from Nasima, the world's only breeding female rhino in captivity. Saving The Rare Rhinos Of Bohemia
Flocculus - i: a hairy or bristly appendage on the posterior coxa of some Hymenoptera. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
Her dyed blonde hair was cut short, bristly at the back of the head up to the occipital bone. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
Whatever his status, he unveils a conical dome of dark flesh and bristly hair - supposedly the scalp a Yeti.
He had long, wiry black hair, and a bristly goatee-beard-mustache combination around his lower face.
Dressed in austere white, her graying hair cut close to her scalp in the orthodox style so that the bristly ends tickle my palms when I run my hands over them, she's the one who makes sure we are suitably dressed for school in the one-inch-below-the-knee uniforms the nuns insist on. Excerpt: Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
It was a startling assembly, not the least because with a few faintly yellow exceptions, the vroqupii were clad in short, bristly, rose-hued fur. Voyage To The City Of The Dead
Bristly dub on flip, complete with monkey yapping, is a lot better.
Echimyids earn their common name because most species have spiny or bristly hairs at least on their backs and rumps.
Ever since Salome strutted her stuff for a plateful of chops (those would be the rather bristly chops of John the Baptist), women have recognised their power.
My eyes were closed to avoid getting jabbed by the bristly grass blades.
He had huge powerful arms and a bristly mustache.
His uniform - the one he'd always worn - was green with age and his whiskers were grey and bristly.
That is bristly ox tongue, which you can use as salad or as greens. Modern Hunter-Gatherers
This was topped up with a bristly white moustache, a ruddy complexion and blue eyes.
When Cocky, balanced on one leg, the other leg in the air as the foot of it held the scruff of Michael's neck, leaned to Michael's ear and wheedled, Michael could only lay down silkily the bristly hair-waves of his neck, and with silly half-idiotic eyes of bliss agree to whatever was Cocky's will or whimsey so delivered. CHAPTER XI
His bristly red hair was standing on end.
The seeds of the castor plant have a bristly outer cover.
They were tough, bristly, spiky cave bushes but still plants.
Bristly dub on flip, complete with monkey yapping, is a lot better.
Cluster flies are bristly gray insects, about five times bigger than the ordinary housefly, Musca domestica.
The seeds of bristly sarsaparilla, currant, and soapberry lie dormant in the soil and germinate only after being burned; ecologists call the process ‘seed banking.’
Beyond the barricade was a little meadow, shoulder deep in a curious grass with bristly heads which grew very thickly. The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages
Two doors lay open before him and he passed through, great, bristly shoulders scraping gilt veneer from the posterns. The Pig’s End « A Fly in Amber
bristly exchanges between the White House and the press
Yes | No | Report from huntnow wrote 23 hours 38 min ago the nature of this question confuses the hell out of me but the beard on a turkey looks like a beard of sorts. it protrudes out of their feathers on their chest in long, hopefully, dark colored bristly hairlike form. fudd what did these other hunters think a turkey beard was? QUIZ... I've run into some hunters who thought they knew what a turkey beard is, but they didnt.
But they are also thorny like a bramble, not bristly like a wineberry. Times, Sunday Times
You had to tread carefully with all river men, they were a bristly lot. COFFIN ON THE WATER
Perhaps it would be a little shore crab that betrayed itself by scuffling down amongst the corallite or sea-weed, perhaps a little fierce-looking bristly fish, which shot under a ledge of the rock all amongst the limpets, acorn barnacles, or the thousands of yellow and brown and striped snaily fellows that crawled about in company with the periwinkles and pelican's feet. Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore
The tall, straight, branchless trunks of the scattered pines, rise like slender columns, and are crowned with a tuft of knarly limbs and long, bristly leaves, through which the breezes murmur with a monotonous sound, much like that of falling waters, or waves breaking on a beach. The White Slave or Memoirs of a Fugitive
The bristly hair in your mustache prickles my skin, itching a bit.
The _spikelets_ are linear-oblong, glabrous or villous, 1/8 to 1/4 inch long, sessile and stalked spikelets close together; the pedicel of the stalked spikelet is thick about 1/3 or less than the length of the sessile spikelet, ciliate on one side, confluent with the thick callus of the sessile spikelet, which is sparsely bristly. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
I took the coarse, bristly rope in my hands and held it tight, hoping to still the uncontrollable shaking I felt.
Vince the Vile Smollett was young, stocky, and boasted a bristly brown mustache. FAIRYLAND
The guy was all bristly and red and puffed up, in fatigue pants and a brown shirt.
At the small grocery on the corner, a stocky man with bristly white hair who looks nearly sixty does the heavy work and drives a van.
One carried a TV set, and both squinted like feral animals, wild-eyed and bristly-bearded and sunburned, as they walked toward the Jeep.
Setaceous’ is simply one of those specialist words used in the trade to mean bristly’, just as lunate’ means crescent-shaped and ocellate’ means eye-like. Wildwood
Nekoi looked up, a handsome, bristly muzzle appeared.
Mr. Gershwin, a rather catlike man with an intelligent face and bristly whiskers, began.
The mixed forests - tall white pine, bristly spruce, oak and maple - seem to extend forever.
Flying foxes have a long bristly tongue that's great for lapping up juicy fruit, and for licking and grooming themselves and their friends!
He grabbed her hand and brought it to his face to rub her fingers over his bristly cheek.
Thick, bristly, black whiskers that covered the lower half of his face told the two shipmates that he hadn't shaved in a long while.
She raised a hand and put it on his bristly cheek.
So much like a 19th century professor he appeared, with his thick bristly sideburns covering either well fatted jowl.
His bristly brown beard probably scratched Baby Chad wherever he kissed, but neither seemed to care.
The bandleader, who doubles as the vocalist, is a small, nimble man with a mobile face and dark, bristly hair.
Football also makes people cross enough to become frantically upset about Neil Lennon, a man who, in normal life, might be the kind of slightly testy neighbour who occasionally leaves a note on your windscreen about wheelie bin maintenance, but who, in football, is deemed a bristly ginger hard-nut super villain. It's time to admit football is pure evil | Barney Ronay
He had strong black eyebrows which you would have thought would meet in the middle but didn't, and a thick bristly moustache. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
Pickle has short, bristly hair all over, mottled black and brown. Angry Young Man
Pinnæ linear-lanceolate, scythe-shaped, auricled on the upper side, and with bristly teeth; fertile pinnæ contracted toward the top, bearing two rows of sori, which soon become confluent and cover the entire surface. The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada

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