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  • noun Plural form of rustle.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rustle.

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Examples

  • A breeze rustles the paper and it moves half an inch.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • The face is full of softnesses and hardnesses, flutters and rustles, colors and textures.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • Follows this with BBC sports personality of the year title, has Scotland's Commonwealth Games velodrome named in his honour – and becomes brand ambassador for Kellogg's Bran Flakes2009 Knighted in the new year honours, rustles up an autobiography and receives a second honorary doctorate, but on the track crashes at a World Cup event in Copenhagen and misses the world championships2010 Gets married in April.

    London 2012: It's all in the detail as Sir Chris Hoy focuses on gold 2011

  • Ned rustles me awake just after dawn when the church door swings open and an ancient-looking, bespectacled nun enters.

    Soul Trapper F. J. Lennon 2011

  • The sound of the gentle wind rustles through the pine branches.

    Margie Goldsmith: Finding My Path At A Buddhist Temple In Vancouver Margie Goldsmith 2011

  • If you want to try some of the street eats he rustles up, head to the dai pai dongs (open-air food stalls) of the Temple Street night market in Jordan, where you can chow down on beef balls, octopus sticks and pig intestines.

    Film-inspired holidays: The Hong Kong Kung Fu Holiday Richard Vine 2010

  • Later, facing a warm welcome in Philadelphia, Chaput named himself once more: "I'm a good eagle that rustles the leaves."

    Pope names Chaput to succeed Philadelphia archbishop 2011

  • Since early man had only a split second to make such decisions, Mr. Shermer says, we are descendants of ancestors whose "default position is to assume that all patterns are real; that is, assume that all rustles in the grass are dangerous predators and not the wind."

    A Trick Of the Mind Ronald Bailey 2011

  • Ghostly harmonium chords are picked at and prodded by Skarbø's rimshots, cymbal rustles, and scampering noises.

    1982: Pintura – review 2011

  • Amid murmurs and rustles, Yost laid his hand on the offered head, and Frankie, like a weary traveler, sagged to his knees.

    Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011

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