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rustling::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | rustle, whisper, whispering |
| Type of | noise |
| Derivation | rustle |
Examples of rustling
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Gok Wan has been a huge TV hit rustling up fashion advice to the nation's women.
From the mirror.co.uk
Cook for a further five minutes, until there is a rustling crust on the bottom.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Seven months on and you can feel the wind of change rustling through this side.
From the independent.co.uk
Different kinds of tree make different sounds when rustling in a summer breeze.
From the newscientist.com
A gentle breeze picks up, rustling the palms and the lights on the plaza trees.
From the pe.com
We've hardly reached the opposite bank before there's a rustling in the reeds.
From the dailymail.co.uk
Illinois farm and beef experts say cattle rustling is extremely rare in the state.
From the stltoday.com
We listened to howler monkeys rustling in the trees and calling to each other.
From the chron.com
Nothing but the lapping of the surf and the soft rustling of the afternoon breeze.
From the sltrib.com
- 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
