bustling
adjective
moving or acting with a great show of energy.
bustlingly
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a word derived from
bustling.
Example Sentences
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The aim is to be bustlingly kinetic, but the feel is pure kindergarten: no logic, just jerky leaps from one gaming situation to the next, with characters and objects taking on whatever powers are needed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
It is also bustlingly commercial, with two experimental farms, a model fishing fleet, a profitmaking cannery.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I will save you, Robin," cried the old woman, bustlingly.
From Robin Hood by N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth
Then, with cat's-ice still glazing the ruts and pools but a feeling of Spring in the air, Porth Neigr, ten miles away, came bustlingly to life.
From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions
The Grand Duke, Peter Leopold, the practical, economical, priest-hating, paternally-meddlesome, bustlingly and tyrannically-reforming son of Maria Theresa, was not the man to console so mediæval and antiquated and unphilosophical a thing as a Stuart.
From The Countess of Albany by Vernon Lee
