[
US
/ˈbəsəɫ/
]
[ UK /bˈʌsəl/ ]
[ UK /bˈʌsəl/ ]
VERB
-
move or cause to move energetically or busily
The cheerleaders bustled about excitingly before their performance
NOUN
- a framework worn at the back below the waist for giving fullness to a woman's skirt
- a rapid active commotion
How To Use bustle In A Sentence
- Located far away from the hustle and bustle of a metropolis, the choice of venue was well and truly acknowledged by all concerned.
- AS THE chug of a train rumbles overhead, Andy Arnold takes a seat amid the lunchtime bustle of the Arches theatre bar in Glasgow's city centre.
- The manor is a world away from the hustle and bustle of city life. The Sun
- But despite all the uncertainty and bustle it seems, admittedly to an outsider, that the older generation is coping admirably.
- It was somewhere to unwind, away from the hustle and bustle of urban life. Times, Sunday Times
- Kisangani - The rising sun is already burning a brilliant path across the muddy vastness of the mighty Congo river as the group of busy women bustle around the night's catch.
- Substitute Steve Whitehall dived to head in Nuneaton's opener, but within a minute Darryn Stamp bustled his way through to lash in the leveller.
- He loved the bustle and the chatter about news in London coffee houses and he had a nose for gruesome and sensational details. Times, Sunday Times
- He bustled Ouija Board into fifth soon after the start and held his position until the field quickened down the back stretch.
- It is especially welcome for families, for it keeps them out of the hustle and bustle of the airport. Times, Sunday Times