Example Sentences

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As recovery has spread, factories in Eastern Europe have bustled with additional orders.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2018

In the olden days she would have bustled down before she went to bed, and have seen herself that everything was ready, so that the master of the house might not be kept waiting.

From Orley Farm by Trollope, Anthony

St. Bernard dogs doing the square thing by Alpine travellers could not have bustled about more assiduously.

From Right Ho, Jeeves by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

Monks have bustled about the nave, dressing it up with holly-boughs and bushes of yew, and preparing a stage for the sacred play they are going to exhibit on the feast day.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington