Crossword clues for bustled
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bustle \Bus"tle\ (b[u^]s"s'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bustled (-s'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Bustling (-sl[i^]ng).] [Cf. OE. buskle, perh. fr. AS. bysig busy, bysg-ian to busy + the verbal termination -le; or Icel. bustla to splash, bustle.] To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd.
And leave the world for me to bustle in.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
Having a bustle, as clothing. v
(en-past of: bustle)
Usage examples of "bustled".
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.
He bustled about in the dark, pushed the table, took up one bottle, then another, and again returned them to their place, laughing guiltily and confusedly as he did so.
He bustled about with them at the woodpile, uncorked bottles of beer, cursed, laughed loudly and tried his best to resemble them.
Dampness and silence were breathed from the forest, while at its outskirts dark human figures bustled about noisily.
They bustled about, waving their arms, talking to one another--some red with anger, others pale, yet all equally powerless to check the flow of his jeers at them.
A squad of med-robots bustled through the main door of the lab, two of them carrying a stretcher, the others holding feed lines and monitoring equipment hooked up to the patient.
Nurse stripped off her wet habit, and huddled her into a dressing-gown, and made her sit by the fire, while she herself bustled about, first trotting off to mix a cordial, which she made Venetia drink, then rubbing her chilled feet, tidying the room, laying out an evening-gown, and all the time talking, talking, but never waiting for answers, and only looking at Venetia out of the corners of her sharp old eyes.
He stood up as she bustled over to the wall, filled a basin with water from a bucket and began the washing-up.
With stammered apologies, the Lord Marshal sent for servants, who bustled about the tent, fetching food, drink, and a fresh brazier, emptying the tent of all the cots but the ones Lan and Pol were on, and a third one left for Tuck, who was already asleep on it.