bustled

[buhs-uhld]

adjective

1. wearing or furnished with a bustle, a pad or framework formerly worn under the back of a woman's skirt to support and display its fullness.

Example Sentences

Two staircases from the ground floor linked Neeraj's rooms to the open gallery and waiting hall of his private clinic, where half a dozen staff bustled between the lab and the medical store.

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Military personnel bustled in and out, appearing to bring in supplies and fuel the plane.

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There's an eerie silence in areas that once bustled with tourist activity.

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"The belief in Ekrem Imamoglu and in democracy will make the protests bigger and stronger," he told us at his party headquarters in Istanbul, as visitors, staff and advisors bustled in and out.

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As he painted what was left of Everest Burgers, Lake Avenue, Altadena’s commercial thoroughfare, bustled with toiling emergency workers.

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