to bustle

Examples

• All

• Finally, in Afghanistan's west, Herat City is bustling and ready to initiate the transition to local control.

  Academic text (2011)

• The children bustled around the playground, excitedly playing games and laughing.

• I've got to bustle along.

  Now, Voyager (1942)

• The streets should have been bustling with tourists.

  The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)

• Satisfied, he led Tony across the street and into the lobby of bustling Manhattan General Hospital.

  Fiction book (1992)

• The heat wave had begun, but she appeared unaffected as she bustled about her kitchen and living room.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Peregrine stepped out of the taxi into a bustling exchange of visitors coming and going.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Pictures by Robert Lyons show an Africa that is bright and bustling with people who are intriguing and distinct.

  Academic text (2000)

• Well, I hail from the bustling metropolis known as Bodeen, Texas.

  Whip It (2009)

• By mid-March 1848, he was in Columbus, Mississippi, a bustling commercial center just west of the Alabama line.

  Academic text (2008)

Synonyms

B

to be active

vsto bustle

266 1.0

To move your body often by doing exercise or play

involves busier, more energetic motion rather than simple activity

H

to hustle

vsto bustle

106 4.2

Move quickly and with energy, often because you are in a hurry

moves with busy energy but without hurry or coercion

B

to bristle

vsto bustle

8 5.6

To be full of many things or strong feeling

emphasizes busy energetic motion rather than just being full

B

to bustle about

vsto bustle

2 4.1

To move around quickly while busy with small tasks

has identical meaning but is the single-word rather than phrasal form

R

to rollick

vsto bustle

1 7.3

To play and move in a loud, happy way

is busy and energetic but lacks the playful, cheerful tone

Antonyms

R

to rest

757 1.0

To stop activity to relax or sleep and get energy back

I

idle

60 2.8

Not working or being used

Phrasal Verbs

B

to bustle about

2 4.1

To move around quickly while busy with small tasks

How Energetic

sprint

44 2.1

to dash

67 1.0

to bustle

12 4.2

to hurry

∞ 1.0

to walk

∞ 1.0

to stroll

118 1.8

Surface Forms

Etymology