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noun

bristle

a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic

In a sentence

Three example sentences with bristle, each labelled with its topic.

  • A cheap brush sheds a bristle into the wet paint, and you will be picking it out for hours.

    Art

  • Nylon bristles on the pastry brush survive hot butter far better than the natural hair ones do.

    Cooking

  • Under the microscope each bristle on the beetle's leg is a single stiff filament, thicker than a human hair.

    Science

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