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Discover LudwigThe phrase "bristle with" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of something being filled with things, usually in an aggressive or menacing manner. For example, one could say "His words bristled with anger" to suggest that the person was very angry.
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Its hills bristle with military antennas.
Once-bleak hills bristle with grassy stubble.
Passages of the suit bristle with hostility.
It makes Ward, and other educationalists, bristle with frustration.
His conversation and art bristle with rebuke for African-Americans.
Its swamplands and deltas bristle with heat-stoked tensions.
Your shelf will bristle with trees and strolling elephants.
My laptop can't tell when I bristle with indignation.
He's audacious rhythmically, with rhythmic repetitions that make his solos bristle with ideas.
He is still in the hills, which now bristle with electronic listening equipment, roadblocks and spies.
The barricades today do not bristle with bayonets and rifles, but with phones.
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