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UK
/bˈʌslɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈbəsəɫɪŋ, ˈbəsɫɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈbəsəɫɪŋ, ˈbəsɫɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
full of energetic and noisy activity
a bustling city
How To Use bustling In A Sentence
- The Reddings House was indeed busy, bustling with servants, lost in a flurry of planning and preparation.
- Lectoure is a bustling market town and the best jumping-off point for a first visit to Le Gers.
- Situated only eight miles from Manchester's bustling city centre and with superb views over the Pennines, the elegant Norton Grange Hotel at Rochdale offers fine four-star accommodation within landscaped grounds.
- Sparrows, chickadees, woodpeckers, and an assortment of other creatures were awake and bustling that summer morning.
- From sandy beaches to lofty mountain tops, rolling dales to bustling cities, we've got the lot.
- Schumacher opens the film in terrific style with a black and white section set in 1919 Paris, which gradually melts into a full colour flashback to the bustling 1870s.
- We reached rue Oberkampf, and the girl in the black tights was still complaining to her friend in the gray tights as they waited to jaywalk across the street, which was bustling with French students and artists whose bags, I imagined, held nineteenth century novels, or paperbacks with white covers; guitar strings, or paint brushes. Five Stops on Line 2, Ch 1: Qalb elouz
- What attachments to the homestead shall thus inweave themselves about the hearts of those whose interests and life are cast with it -- and still more, of those who go forth from it, by taste, inclination, or bias, into the more bustling centres of competition and trade! The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
- The pretty cathedral city in Hampshire was bustling with shoppers. Times, Sunday Times
- Take an end-of-summer city break in Oslo and enjoy the bustling nightlife as the bars fill up to catch the end of the midnight sun.