WordNet
adj. covered thickly with objects thrusting upward as with bristles; "roofs bristling with antennas"; "housetops bristlng with chimneys"; "a riverbank bristling with factories" [syn: bristling with(p)]
Usage examples of "bristling with".
Next came a brace of powerboats, sleek and muscular-looking, bristling with electronics.
When Ikwaskwan's troops arrived, bristling with weapons but speaking words of peace to what they fondly supposed to be the Linyaari home world, they were flanked by the real Federation ships, locked into tractor beams, and escorted to the outpost, after a brief skirmish ending in the Federation's favor and providing so much salvage for Becker that he had to put it on the tractor beam to tow behind the Condor.
Their black hulls, forest of masts, and endless rows of smokestacks fanned an impenetrable gauntlet bristling with over a thousand guns.
That was why he didn't see Acorna waving frantically in his direction, or hear her distant voice trying to warn him of the flotilla of assorted water vessels heading in his direction, bristling with all sorts of makeshift weapons.
He seemed a harmless enough man, fussy, narrow, a little querulous perhaps, bristling with academic rivalries.
Before the Red Hand, somewhat battered in appearance, nosed around the point, the beach was bare of human life, the palisade bristling with helmets and scarf-bound heads.
She announced her condition by a long, heartbreaking wolf howl that sent every dog bristling with fear, then sprang straight for Buck.