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    Use "bristly" in a sentence

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    bristly


    1. Does that mean he’s gone? Obliterated, fragmented, non-existent? Are you alone, Sally? He’s gone, the physical David, the ‘David’ with the bristly chin, the one you could laugh with, the one you could see and speak to, the one who used to walk on the surface of this planet who is gone


    2. “Quite the contrary actually…” The Praefect smirked and gave his bristly chin a scratch


    3. And she quickly, shyly, delivered a peck on his bristly cheek


    4. Liulfr scratched his bristly chin


    5. It was then that I saw a burly German gunner with red bristly hair on his head and a face like a constipated pig trying to free a stoppage on the gun


    6. Then I notice bristly hairs on my fingers that weren’t there before


    7. “What?” he bellowed, fury spreading rapidly across his bristly


    8. ” Chiron stroked his bristly beard


    9. black hair, the same bristly mane that passed for a beard, the same


    10. I peered down on Scumble"s bristly head and massive shoulders from the top of the stairs

    11. Rex laughed, gave Con‘s cock a friendly tug and was about to stand when he was grabbed round the waist, dragged down to lie on top of a bristly chest, and kissed with all the passion Con could muster


    12. It was the beginning of the breeding time and Big‘un was near his prime: 38 inches at the shoulder and six months past his fourth birthday, his bristly, wire-haired body virtually fat free


    13. In bristly walked is Yelkai who stopped at his chair and spoke


    14. The back of Morg’s hand sprouted bristly black hair, as did all around his head except his face which was now a short snout


    15. The tallest was a lieutenant with a bristly Mohawk, standing eight feet tall at his wide shoulders


    16. His veil covered his beard, but bristly stray hairs protruded


    17. while hairy-leaved types and bristly cacti can be cleaned with a small soft brush


    18. A’qil sighed, and he rubbed a rough hand across his bristly chin


    19. stinging with their sharp bristly flowers


    20. Don't be so bristly, Jim

    21. I kissed his bristly cheek and whispered, “ I love you Uncle Joshua; you are truly the best


    22. ‘I’d just lose this,’ the bristly manager had said, giving back my resume


    23. Shaving removes this tip from the hair shaft so growing hairs feel bristly


    24. missing within the bristly grey-streaked beard


    25. OF THE BRISTLY ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE


    26. " His eyes blinded with tears and he turned and went weakly out of the barn, and he rubbed his bristly whiskers with his wrist stump


    27. She veiled her eyes with thick bristly lashes and moved a little closer to him


    28. He never gave his children a blessing, so he simply held out his bristly cheek (as yet unshaven) and, regarding her tenderly and attentively, said severely:


    29. Her mind would pop into dogs, sit there, and she would feel the bristly feels of dogs, taste ripe bones, sniff tangy-urined trees


    30. Hand-slapping brass poles, he flung himself into a seat where with his bristly red hair, pink face, and incredible sharp blue eyes he sat silent, going back around, back around, the music squealing swift back with him like insucked breath

    31. Knees striking his chin, shoes crushing wet leaves, he soared over a hedge, his hands full of bristly porcupine weapons, fear and joy a tumble of mixed marbles in his mouth


    32. Both boys writhed in the iron-maiden clutch of hungry saurians and bristly apes


    33. Since he had also worn glasses for myopia from the age of five, and had his mother’s Indian hair, as bristly and coarse as horsehair, his appearance clarified nothing


    34. The highly nutritious nuts come in ovoid, leafy, bristly or hairy husks


    35. Small parasites which burrow beneath the skin, such as the tear-shaped, bristly larvae of the warblefly, or the tiny chigoe, which makes red pinpricks where it lodges on the skin, should be removed before they can open up a route for further infection


    36. ” His eyes blinded with tears and he turned and went weakly out of the barn, and he rubbed his bristly whiskers with his wrist stump


    37. His chin, bristly with sparse whiskers, rested on the back of one hand


    38. On the other hand, the extremities of these lower lamellae are frayed into fine bristly points, so that they thus curiously resemble the plates of baleen


    39. In the courtyard Nekhludoff met an officer with bristly moustaches, and asked for the assistant-inspector


    40. That expression it derived from a low, but prominent, forehead, deep black eyes, short, bristly hair, and a thick, dark beard which looked as though it stood in constant need of trimming

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    Synonyms for "bristly"

    barbed barbellate briary briery bristled bristly burred burry prickly setaceous setose spiny thorny splenetic waspish furry bushy fuzzy hairy feathery leafy shaggy

    "bristly" definitions

    very irritable


    having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.