Example Sentences

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The only sound is rustling pages and creaking chairs.

From BBC • May 4, 2025

Now the 5th Avenue Theatre is rustling up its own ambitious, full-scale version that opens Thursday.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2012

All I hear now is rustling canvas atop an empty grandstand.

From Golf Digest • Mar. 15, 2010

But there are other nights, moonless and starless, When no moth flutters, no bat flits, owl calls, Something is stirring, something is rustling, Something that is not of mortals befalls In galleries, cellars, and halls.

From Poems of London and Other Verses by Presland, John

Now I'm in the corn-fields and the tall green corn is rustling in the wind, and the morning-glories climb up every stalk and shake the dew out of their purple bells.

From The Little Colonel's House Party by Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)