Rustling Sentence Examples

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  • Suddenly he heard a rustling noise behind him.

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  • She heard the rustling of clothing as he dressed.

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  • I hear a rustling of the leaves.

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  • He stood on the balcony, visible beyond the transparent curtains rustling in the moving haze.

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  • Her room was tiny, and she heard others rustling in rooms nearby.

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  • By their friction on each other the leaves give rise to a rustling sound.

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  • It is hardly as if you had seen a wild creature when a rabbit or a partridge bursts away, only a natural one, as much to be expected as rustling leaves.

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  • Deidre listened to their rustling and distant cries and focused on placing her feet along the path.

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  • Another rustling followed, this one much closer and to the left of their trail.

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  • They come rustling through the woods like autumn leaves, at least ten men to one loon.

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  • Her rustling around the kitchen – including dropping a can of chicken – didn't wake him.

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  • The rustling sounds were from the spider crawling around inside her skull.

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  • A tall, stout, and proud-looking woman, with a round-faced smiling daughter, entered the drawing room, their dresses rustling.

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  • Then he heard a rustling noise in the hedge on the roadside.

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  • All I could make out were some rustling leaves.

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  • There was no more growling; no more rustling in the bushes.

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  • The shaking & rustling of the paper along with the scrape of metal on ice kept its own rhythm within the music.

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  • The presence of Zeus at the temple was thought to be signified by the rustling of the tree.

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  • Of all things in the world it fell on my ears like the trailing of silken robes - soft in sound, yet rustling.

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  • The roughness of the exterior fabric is the cause for this rustling noise.

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  • The death dealer sat, his trench coat rustling.

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  • Her rustling around the kitchen – including dropping a can of chicken – didn't wake him.

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  • He's yr solid gold, disco bunny, cattle rustling, number one hit single, leaning bag of power.

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  • Behind my lashes, behind my dewy peepers Words interweave like rustling jungle creepers.

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  • Standing nearby, rustling trees remember a verse from a warm, simple song they heard on the breeze.

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  • Playing with your artist can be something as simple as doodling on a big sheet of paper or rustling in the leaves in your backyard.

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  • From a bubbling brook to the rustling leaves of a rainforest, sometimes you just need to return to nature to ground yourself, find peace, and relieve yourself of worldly stresses.

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  • The rustling sound of nearing footsteps on the forest floor created panic.

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  • When the rustling behind her stopped, she led the woman out of the apartment and locked the door behind her.

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  • It was very exciting at that season to roam the then boundless chestnut woods of Lincoln--they now sleep their long sleep under the railroad--with a bag on my shoulder, and a stick to open burs with in my hand, for I did not always wait for the frost, amid the rustling of leaves and the loud reproofs of the red squirrels and the jays, whose half-consumed nuts I sometimes stole, for the burs which they had selected were sure to contain sound ones.

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  • A tall, beautiful woman with a mass of plaited hair and much exposed plump white shoulders and neck, round which she wore a double string of large pearls, entered the adjoining box rustling her heavy silk dress and took a long time settling into her place.

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  • But now the kind October wind rises, rustling the leaves and rippling the surface of the water, so that no loon can be heard or seen, though his foes sweep the pond with spy-glasses, and make the woods resound with their discharges.

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  • Berg and Vera could not repress their smiles of satisfaction at the sight of all this movement in their drawing room, at the sound of the disconnected talk, the rustling of dresses, and the bowing and scraping.

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