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Example sentences for "hustling"

Lexicographically close words:
hustings; hustle; hustled; hustler; hustles; huswife; hut; hutch; hutches; hutments
  1. The noisy clang of the pump was again heard in the land, and a stream of hustling lads carried water to the new point that was threatened by the insatiable enemy.

  2. All over town they could be seen running wildly this way and that, with people trying to ask questions which the hustling scouts were too busy to answer.

  3. It sounded just as if she had suddenly let out the fury of some miniature tornado which was hustling round a china shop.

  4. For over an hour we went hustling and humming through the blue heavens in pursuit of our prey; then we saw Windhuk, the City of the Aged, lying beneath us like a cluster of toy huts on a green and brown carpet.

  5. Meanwhile the dogs are having a rare time of it hustling the bunnies forward.

  6. Dawn on the broad serenity of the waters at Old Point Comfort was utterly unlike the North, from which I had come, and the last ten days of jangling trolley cars hustling along shoppy streets.

  7. A somewhat patriarchal settled state of life took possession of Virginia, a new feudalism which was out of keeping with hustling and radical America.

  8. So in they come, but couldn't see us in the dark, and most trod on us whilst we was hustling to get under the bed.

  9. I said no, but I see them sneaking out of the room and hustling away, and I never thought nothing, only I reckoned they was afraid they had waked up my master and was trying to get away before he made trouble with them.

  10. Here and there threatening crowds gathered in front of bakeries and butcher shops which bore German names; but their leaders were half-tipsy cockney dames whom the ever imperturbable "Bobbies" had no trouble in hustling on out of the way.

  11. They were too much occupied in hustling the job along to think about asking me for my parole--a lucky thing, for I should have had a hard time to keep from breaking it.

  12. It was a new and pretty sight, the busy hustling crowd of gentle creatures; with the soft noise of their tread upon grass and stones, and the eager devouring of the salt.

  13. Everything and everyone is swept along in the hustling current.

  14. It would seem that the hustling and the hard-hitting tendencies are naturally akin.

  15. I welcome you to our hustling city, and invite you to make your headquarters at the "Golden Rule Hotel" during your stay.

  16. They took a street car to the railroad station, where Boston Frank purchased tickets to Dixon, one of the prettiest and most hustling cities in western Illinois.

  17. Bob Addy, who was one of the best of the lot, was a good, hard hustling player, a good base runner and a hard hitter.

  18. It was things about men, just like yourself--hustling for a living in their way, just as we're hustling in Broadway.

  19. It will keep the Lookouts hustling to supply funds for it.

  20. They all have dates or errands that sent them hustling along.

  21. Raven was in great spirits, singing, shouting, and occasionally sending Nighthawk open-mouthed in a fierce charge upon the laggards hustling the long straggling line onwards through the whirling drifts without pause or falter.

  22. Meanwhile Cameron was tearing off his football togs and hustling on his clothes with fierce haste.

  23. I wonder how it will all come out," and hustling into his clothes, he immediately went out to the place arranged for the secret meeting to practice signal work.

  24. And Strawberry is doing pretty good hustling right now, considering the heavy condition of our weight, in the way of game.

  25. I calculated that by hustling I could reach Blankshire either at ten or ten-thirty.

  26. He is hustling back to New York as fast as he can.

  27. Martin looked at him approvingly as if this was the sort of hustling he liked, and accompanied him out to the street.

  28. This low browed man's whole object in life was to keep from having those hunger pains, and the only energy he expended was in hustling for food and in protecting his food from the other savages.

  29. The hustling business man who borrows is usually under forty.

  30. Credit is a subsidy, and it stands the hustling business man in good stead.

  31. The most fastidious cat was a grimy tramp in comparison to her in habits, and in all her spare time--goodness alone knows how she squeezed in any spare time at all during those hustling days!

  32. A buck-jumping mustang of the most hustling kind would have been as a gentle lamb to it.

  33. Would it be possible to get this noisy, hustling crowd of boys together and gradually to bring this great power, this great force, into a channel for doing good?

  34. Taking advantage of conditions and circumstances, the number of friends increased so rapidly that when cold weather set in, over a hundred little hustling friends of the street were added to the list.

  35. Prone upon his face he lay, with his eyes on that double line of cattle and its hustling drivers.

  36. His hustling took the form of beginning to shout incomprehensible orders almost before the train had drawn up at the platform.

  37. So a few days ago we were not at all surprised to be informed, officially, that trench life is to be definitely abandoned, and Hun-hustling to begin in earnest.

  38. There was a deal of jostling and pushing and hustling before Theresa could present her claim; but when she showed how her brother was fighting in the army, and her father was dead, it was instantly allowed.

  39. As he neared 99, he discerned that the veteran engineer was hustling tremendously.

  40. The excitement and wild, hustling activity bore a certain stimulating fascination.

  41. Whirling into the road, he headed the horse back toward town, plying the whip and hustling the best he knew how.

  42. Boss Burton came hustling down the line in his runabout.

  43. If we take one fork, we may be hustling off on the wrong scent.

  44. I can catch up on you fellows by hustling a little, so I guess I'll stay in and work on the books to-day.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hustling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adventuresome; adventurous; aggressive; agile; ambitious; breakneck; bustling; busy; dashing; driving; dynamic; enterprising; expeditious; express; fallen; fast; fleet; flying; forceful; fussy; galloping; harlot; hasty; headlong; humming; industrious; lively; mercurial; meretricious; nimble; popping; precipitate; prompt; prostitute; pushing; quick; rapid; reckless; running; scarlet; sedulous; snappy; spanking; speedy; swift; venturesome; whorish; winged