BRISTLY in a Sentence
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Example sentences for BRISTLY, such as:
1. She veiled her eyes with thick bristly lashes and moved a little closer to him.
2. Her eyes were pale green without a touch of hazel, starred with bristly black lashes and slightly tilted at the ends.
2. Her eyes were pale green without a touch of hazel, starred with bristly black lashes and slightly tilted at the ends.
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Meanings and Examples of BRISTLY
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bristly
a. having or covered with protective barbs or others; very irritable
Classic Sentence:
1 Her eyes were pale green without a touch of hazel, starred with bristly black lashes and slightly tilted at the ends.
2 But she smiled when she spoke, consciously deepening her dimple and fluttering her bristly black lashes as swiftly as butterflies' wings.
3 She veiled her eyes with thick bristly lashes and moved a little closer to him.
4 The poor fowl was thin, and covered with one of those thick, bristly skins through which the teeth cannot penetrate with all their efforts.
5 Around are slain in sacrifice oxen many in number, and bristly swine and cattle gathered out of all the country are slaughtered over the flames.
Example Sentence:
1 His black eyes were restless, sly, and cunning; his mouth and chin bristly with a coarse, hard beard; his face never clean, but always distorted with a ghastly grin.