Hurried and noisy activity

Usage examples of bustle.

Every day, top lawyers and accountants bustled in and out, hoping to catch the ear of the man who ruled this realm: Arthur Levitt, the SEC chairman.

The small bustle at the back of her gown caused the bronze-and-red-striped skirts of the dress to sway in an elegant, enticing manner that Ambrose was certain he could have studied for hours.

Tess took up the torn dress, an off-white satin gown with fine lace applique spilling over the shoulders into a free fall down the back, over the bustle, and along the edge of the train.

For the meat eaters, a number of giant baloneys were set to roasting whole on spits, to be turned and attentively basted with a grape-jelly glaze by once-quarrelsome kitchen staff while others made croutons from old bread, bustling about while the spinach thawed, singing along with the radio, which someone had mercifully re-tuned to a rock and roll station.

Still, as the human bartender bustled through the busy streets, sun hood up, squinting, he was bothered by that droid who had accosted him.

Bug had bustled her way to the front, basket held before her like a battering ram.

The apprentice dodged two thin women who bustled toward Beryal and him as if to separate them, then eased closer to Beryal.

Scall, the brewhouse held an air of arcane mystery, with the brewers bustling about between barrel, vat, and still, performing their strange alchemical arts.

Dobson led me up a narrow hall to a larger area in front where people bustled about in what appeared to be total confusion.

She bustled on down the hall, taffeta skirts crackling, and I moved glumly up the stairs.

ICU burst open and a small, attractive-in-a-hard-sort-of-way, bleached blonde nurse bustled toward him.

As the bronze bell rang in clear, high tones, people bustled out to see the excitement.

Within the fenced enclosure, people bustled about in comfortable overalls as they prepared the elevator car for its ascent.

After considering him attentively, I recognized in him a diligent getter-up of miscellaneous works, which bustled off well with the trade.

Thus while the busy dame bustled about the house or plied her spinning-wheel at one end of the piazza, honest Balt would sit smoking his evening pipe at the other, watching the achievements of a little wooden warrior who, armed with a sword in each hand, was most valiantly fighting the wind on the pinnacle of the barn.