Asked by ABC News White House Correspondent Karen Travers if Biden was giving a warning to Netanyahu as Israel signals it's moving to the next phase of its response, Sullivan bristled: "It was not a warning."

Source: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-update-americans-hamas-attacks-israel-fate-us/story?id=103859524

But their responses to the state bristled with the kind of litigious language often deployed in legal filings to overturn government decisions.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-12-27/tulare-lake-land-barons-defy-calls-to-cut-groundwater-pumping

Lupinacci, a former assistant district attorney, and Mari, an attorney who owns her own law firm, bristled against this statement.

Source: https://tbrnewsmedia.com/huntington-town-board-candidates-debate-overdevelopment-housing-and-traffic-control/

Russia bristled at suggestions that the opening of the crossings might be made permanent, and its Foreign Ministry accused the West of trying to get aid “exclusively” to areas not controlled by the Syrian government.

Source: https://krdo.com/news/2023/02/14/rescuers-find-more-alive-in-turkey-on-8th-day-after-quake/

The Christian Democrats bristled at the tone of Moro’s letters — the undignified pleading, the insistence that the Italian government negotiate for his release.

Source: https://insidestory.org.au/memento-moro/