(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.
Hoopla
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Sorry if I did that.” That hoopla created a sizzling atmosphere in which players needed to stay cool.
(2) I was conscious [that as prime minister of Australia] I came with a lot of hoopla,” she says.
(3) And even then – after all this "Vesuvian hoopla", as Joe Klein put it in Time magazine – she still leaves us dangling.
(4) "As soon as the hoopla started with the passage of the law, branches of organisations like Occupy Paedophilia and Occupy Gerontophilia appeared in our city."
(5) US Open 2015: Serena Williams v Vitalia Diatchenko – as it happened Read more It was a muted counterpoint to the annual on-court hoopla to set the tone of the loudest fortnight in tennis, as much a rolling circus as a tennis tournament, especially under the stars.
(6) The 26-year-old, obsessed by the macabre hoopla surrounding other mass shootings, left a note – a multi-page, angry screed, it was reported – and murdered with apparent yearning for posthumous notoriety.
(7) In other words: Corbyn’s failure, after so much hoopla, would threaten to re-define the centre ground and, by definition, make the Tories look more rightwing.
(8) Accompanying this we have the usual hoopla: frenzied speculation about "valuations"; serious looking bankers in suits touting spreadsheets which purport to give a rational basis for numbers plucked out of the air; gossip columnists speculating on how much the company's founders will be "worth "after the first day's trading.
(9) 10.57pm GMT Paula Matthewson, writing in The Hoopla this morning, has produced a typically interesting column on the Labor leader Bill Shorten's address yesterday to the National Press Club.
(10) Shorten noted “hoopla and showmanship” in the joint announcement by the PUP leader, Clive Palmer, and the climate crusader Al Gore on carbon policy last week, but emphasised “significant points of climate consensus” including the retention of the renewable energy target, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, and the Climate Change Authority.
(11) Next month, amid the usual hoopla, Apple is expected to officially unveil its latest gadget: the much-awaited iPhone 4G .
(12) And in that sense, much of the hoopla around Record Store Day and the aforementioned gig posters surely speaks volumes.
(13) In his stated desire to avoid the pre-Oscar hoopla, Fassbender is echoing the views of Joaquin Phoenix , who called the Academy awards "the worst-tasting carrot I've ever tasted in my whole life".
(14) But amid all the hoopla about what "wearable tech" might actually do for consumers, an equally important debate has emerged over what one might call "geek aesthetics".
(15) But for all the hoopla, the leap to $1,000 would be a big hike for a company that has already enjoyed a record run on the stock exchange.
(16) After Court's defeat, she agreed to play Riggs, and a great hoopla built up around the match.
(17) Because, despite all the hoopla, nothing substantial changed.
(18) Rick Perry most recently entered the 2012 Republican race with solid polling numbers and much media hoopla.