What's the difference between busting and bustling?

Busting


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He wound up repossessing the cars of workers who fled town after the bust.
  • (2) Sometimes it can seem as if the history of the City is the history of its crises and disasters, from the banking crisis of 1825 (which saw undercapitalised banks collapse – perhaps the closest historic parallel to the contemporary credit crunch), through the Spanish panic of 1835, the railway bust of 1837, the crash of Overend Gurney, the Kaffir boom, the Westralian boom, the Marconi scandal, and so on and on – a theme with endless variations.
  • (3) According to unconfirmed reports, he made up to £3m a year through the years of boom and bust and he now owns a £4m home in Fulham and another worth £2m in Chelsea.
  • (4) Mary Creagh, the shadow transport secretary, said: "Over the last three years David Cameron has failed to stand up for working people, allowing train companies to hit passengers with inflation-busting fare rises of up to 9%.
  • (5) The five major commercial banks saw around €2bn of deposits withdrawn by customers anxious that Greece was nearing the end of its credit line with lenders and about to go bust.
  • (6) Listen to Stoopid Symbol Of Woman Hate or Can't Stand Up For 40-Inch Busts (both songs were inspired by a hatred of sexist advertising) and you can hear Amon Duul and Hawkwind scaring the living shit out of Devo and Clock DVA.
  • (7) The bust-up could also weaken Sweden’s chances of re-election to the UN security council next year, which the government has made a strategic foreign policy goal .
  • (8) Photograph: Reuters “Williston was the refugee camp for the guys who went bust in 2008.
  • (9) At present, this test is too expensive to offer to the public although BP is touring the country to pass on green driving tips and bust some myths.
  • (10) According to some members of Aberdeen ’s energy sector, a group with a code of silence that would trump any Trappist throng, the North Sea is a busted flush, a dead zone of drilled-out fields with a long-term future to match.
  • (11) We will also generally pay 100% compensation to those who have retired on legitimate ill-health grounds, regardless of age, and those receiving a pension in relation to someone who had died at the time that the employer went bust,” says the PPF.
  • (12) As a company, the euro would have gone bust by now.
  • (13) A safety net to catch those fallen on hard times, come rain or shine, boom or bust, it would be there for all those who had paid in.
  • (14) Ministers can't expect firms to bust a gut to grow if they fail to take a long-term approach to creating an enterprise-friendly environment.
  • (15) The boardroom is surrounded by glass, which meant the bust-up was viewed by about 100 staff.
  • (16) In an interim review published last month, Myners has said the group must take urgent steps to reform a "massive failure" of governance or it will go bust.
  • (17) "The economy has been subjected to repeated 'boom and bust' cycles, above all in property.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully lands on ocean platform The busts Those accomplishments have not come without repeated failures, the most spectacular of which occurred during attempts to land their Falcon 9 rockets, named after Star Wars’ Millennium Falcon .
  • (19) Her attacks on the president are scathing and she sees him as a busted flush, placing herself at the heart of drives to rebuild the French right after Sarkozy "implodes" at the election.
  • (20) The government promised Kids Company £20m worth of funding last summer, 12 months before the charity went bust, its founder Camila Batmanghelidjh has alleged.

Bustling


Definition:

  • (n.) of Bustle
  • (a.) Agitated; noisy; tumultuous; characterized by confused activity; as, a bustling crowd.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A block further sits the Museum of Chocolate, joining the avant-garde of luxury chocolatiers that seem the hallmark of every bustling metropolis these days.
  • (2) The flat is opposite Covent Garden tube station in the heart of London, and a stone's throw from the hustle and bustle of Leicester Square.
  • (3) Commuters streaming into the bustling streets of the capital Kuala Lumpur earlier in the morning were overwhelmingly black-clad, while state television aired recitations from the Qur’an and showed photos of the victims.
  • (4) Karachi is a bustling business hub of more than 16 million people.
  • (5) Like most provincial towns around Russia , Kirov is far from the hustle and bustle of Moscow's political life.
  • (6) And, among several Hamlets on film, my favourite remains Gregory Kozintsev's 1971 version , which reminded us that Hamlet is only one figure in a bustling, hyperactive court.
  • (7) Poundsavers, on the other hand, looks large and bustling.
  • (8) The city's huge and priceless cultural heritage, a legacy of its medieval status as an African equivalent to Oxford or Cambridge, complete with bustling university, was little known in the outside world, with even the French, Mali's colonial rulers until 1960, carrying away some manuscripts to museums but doing little to unearth the full story behind them.
  • (9) Photograph: Alamy A great place to while away an afternoon, enjoying the tranquillity of the gardens, which make a stark contrast to the usual hustle and bustle of Delhi.
  • (10) Lee was a founding member of the governing People’s Action party and is credited with transforming Singapore from a sleepy Asian entrepot into a bustling and wealthy financial hub.
  • (11) There is colour and bustle in Chinatown, with its handsome temples and excellent food, but otherwise Singapore feels like it’s been scrubbed to within an inch of its life.
  • (12) The forward bustled in, stealing the ball and holding off the centre-half as he attempted to wrest it back, before ripping a glorious shot from a horribly tight angle into the far top corner as Ben Foster edged out to smother.
  • (13) With its bleating goats and vegetable patches, the centre is an oasis of rural tranquillity compared with the hustle and bustle of Goma down the road.
  • (14) Meanwhile, the bones that have just been confirmed as those of Richard III – the last Plantagenet king, the last English monarch to die on a battlefield, whose death ushered in the upstart Tudors – lay quietly in a calm room on the second floor of the Leicester University library, unknown to many of the students bustling in and out of the building.
  • (15) Even so, a free society requires an independent press: turbulent …enquiring…bustling…and free.
  • (16) Throw in the culture and hustle-bustle of London with a bit of the modern architecture of Jersey City, and the city would be even better.
  • (17) On a recent afternoon dozens of children could be seen racing past a multicoloured government creche towards a bustling main square.
  • (18) Their first shelter was a dingy basement in a slum far from São Paulo's bustling financial centre.
  • (19) But as a result of that, Ukip can afford its own office, which gives the area a political bustle that might at any moment turn into a blazing row.
  • (20) Money talks, especially in the bustle of an Indian bazaar.

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