Example Sentences

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Priests have been bustling in and out of the warehouse of late, trying to cross things off their shopping lists.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2021

Just a few blocks from the Upwork office, the headquarters of Harrison Street, a private real estate investment firm with $40 billion under management, have been bustling for months.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2021

Schultenover said he and the club’s director of golf, Jon Balyeat, had a rather melancholy discussion earlier this week about how the club would have been bustling with activity and excitement as players arrived.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 24, 2020

Hospitals and urgent care centers in northern Alabama have been bustling.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 4, 2012

Excuse my getting up to receive you, fair mistress," cried Simon Quanden, who seemed fixed to his chair; "I have been bustling about all day, and am sore fatigued—sore fatigued.

From Windsor Castle by Ainsworth, William Harrison