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- adjective Tending to
rustle ; making a rustling noise.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It was candied pinks and blues and the kind of rustly shinethat’s better suited to Barbie’s Dreamhouse than Bryant Park.
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All at once he was borne back in a tide that made rustly noises through his armor, while a fog of dry white motes blinded him.
The Clique 2010
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After a modicum of mood-building winds, tense looks, and rustly monster-noises, our guards are fire-tentacled to death.
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After a modicum of mood-building winds, tense looks, and rustly monster-noises, our guards are fire-tentacled to death.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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'Miss' carries a faint lavender-scented whiff of Victorian novels and William Morris prints and pastel watercolours and rustly silk dresses.
Archive 2009-03-01 juliette 2009
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Not the rustly, clicky, evil kind but cute ladybugs with bright colours and big, faceted googly eyes.
progress reports mikandra 2009
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He's singing the Chaveleh song to himself and twirling around underneath the big rustly tree that has the rope swing on it.
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'Miss' carries a faint lavender-scented whiff of Victorian novels and William Morris prints and pastel watercolours and rustly silk dresses.
Miss Behaving juliette 2009
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He slowed down his stride, became even more careful to avoid stepping on twigs or into piles of dry, rustly leaves.
Among the Free Margaret Peterson Haddix 2006
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He slowed down his stride, became even more careful to avoid stepping on twigs or into piles of dry, rustly leaves.
Among the Free Margaret Peterson Haddix 2006
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