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rustle::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | rustling, whisper, whispering |
| Type of | noise |
Examples of rustle
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Some parents work such early hours they aren't home to rustle children from bed.
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After the counter-complaint by Kat, the matter passed like a rustle in the wind.
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I saw the light go on, heard her rustle around and watched as the light went off.
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The annoying wind rustle is hopefully just confined to the particular X3 I drove.
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Political parties created Jamaica's street gangs in the 1970s to rustle up votes.
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Then a rustle of papers, and the man puts on a delicate pair of wire-rim glasses.
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You connected A, the rustle in the grass, to B, a dangerous predator, but no harm.
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Time to get the fiddle out again and rustle up a few mythical bucks for next year.
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It is not a time to dictate, rustle up old issues, or incite arguments and stress.
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- A light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind
- Make a dry crackling sound; "rustling silk"; "the dry leaves were rustling in the breeze"
- Take illegally; "rustle cattle"
- Forage food
- (rustling) murmurous: characterized by soft sounds; "a murmurous brook"; "a soughing wind in the pines"; "a slow sad susurrous rustle like the wind fingering the pines"- R.P.Warren
- (rustling) the stealing of cattle
- Rustle noise is noise consisting of aperiodic pulses characterized by the average time between those pulses (such as the mean time interval between clicks of a Geiger counter), known as rustle time (Schouten ?). ...
- (Rustling) Cattle raiding is the act of stealing livestock. In Australia, such stealing is often referred to as duffing, and the person as a duffer. Derricourt, William (1899) Old Convict Days (2nd ed.) T.F. Unwin, London, p. ...
- A soft crackling sound similar to the movement of leaves; to move (something) with a soft crackling sound; to move speedily, especially in the phrase rustle up some food; to steal cattle or other livestock
