1. bristling - Noun
2. bristling - Adjective
3. bristling - Verb
of Bristle
Source: Webster's dictionaryLife is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden. Voltaire
Rabbit feels as if the human race is a vast colourful jostling bristling parade in which he is limping and falling behind. John Updike
His eyes were almost sunken in his head; His face was thin and fleshless as a bone. His tangled, bristling hair, inspiring dread, And shaggy beard were wild to look upon. Ludovico Ariosto
Saw the English [pilots] coming from the sea in huge bands like the bristling hair of Zeus Jupiter. Heard all destroyed in Frankfurt. Sad... Max Beckmann
He who has iron, has bread. People bow down before bayonets; a disarmed crowd is swept aside. But a France bristling with workers in arms means the advent of socialism. In the presence of armed proletarians, all obstacles, resistances and impossibilities will disappear. Louis Auguste Blanqui
For the first two weeks of filming, I remember bristling at some of the occurrences on the set, none of which directly involved me. Then I surrendered to the environment, to Michael's method, and became much happier, even though no one knew what to expect. Madeleine Stowe