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    Use "burst" in a sentence

    burst example sentences

    burst


    bursting


    bursts


    1. Jorma burst into laughter but Herndon and Ava both sat cold as statues in a drizzly winter dawn


    2. It wasn't until our little dog, Sparky, started yelping that Millie burst out, flashlight blazing


    3. doostEr was suspicious that Tahlmute was coloring this with his own fortunes, the Yingolian crystals bubble burst ten decades ago


    4. The young bride could hardly contain herself, bubbling fit to burst with


    5. The cockpit door burst open and the pilot sticks his head out, shouts something in Arabic to Khalid, ducks back inside


    6. I sit in the car for nearly ten minutes muttering imprecations about that bloody man before my sense of humour gets the better of me and, realising just how stupid this whole thing is, burst out laughing


    7. Ricci burst in, breathless and flushed


    8. BANG! Suddenly the metal door burst open, slams against the wall


    9. door for Satan and he burst into my life to strike at that which was dearest


    10. "Going somewhere?" the driver asked, and this time Leonora burst out laughing

    11. As I relieved myself the sound of liquid hitting the sides of the bucket burst the bubble of silence in my cell


    12. Rampone grabbed hold of a 10m Staas container with the mighty claw-foot in the rear and gave a burst of gas to grasp another of the belt-iron steel containers and bring it in contact with the first


    13. This afternoon she couldn't contain herself and burst out before everybody, complaining that Lisa and Nina are always giggling and acting the giddy goat, annoying the rest of the pupils


    14. "Holy moly!" Jaseem said as he burst thru the lab door, hanging on it


    15. Pretty soon I had to endure complaints about my disappearance, ending up to “All those years I've been nothing but the little one you deigned to keep company with, just because nobody else wanted to be your friend!” – at this point Persa almost burst into tears


    16. The particles Horcheese threw from the emitters were a garbage burst, a throat-clearing test burst of nuclei thrown across a wide area in an unfocused stream, barely accelerated beyond 1/10th lightspeed


    17. He had burst in on someone, someone who was controlling a houri simulating one of the female techs from the female side of the ship


    18. I could not mark the world with my anger, but by looking my demons in the eye, by taking that black heart of oblivion in my imaginary hands and squeezing it until it burst, I found the strength to stand as a man in the darkness


    19. At times I felt as though I could burst through the fabric of the building, but I always came back to the same singular realisation


    20. From the passageway the digitally enhanced voice of Citizen Marat burst into life once more, corroding the moment of doubt into a thousand flakes of brittle rust

    21. He felt his heart burst with pride for


    22. and burst the damn that stands before our flood


    23. Shaking with every flak burst, grinding out every second,


    24. “Really, dear lady, I hurt all over, and my head is about to burst, but other than that I’m ok


    25. Issa nearly burst with pride when I mentioned it to her last time I was at Abery


    26. "I'd have thought their hearts would have burst by the time they got here


    27. He stared at her for a few seconds, and then burst out laughing


    28. Then the water burst into spray and Desa shrieked as three loops of tentacle spun around the stick and yanked it from her hand


    29. There was another loud burst of thunder and that made up her mind for her


    30. He burst out laughing and kissed her and then went into the bathroom to shower

    31. He scrambled up as far as he could, his fear of heights driven from his mind by his fear of what burst into the camp below them


    32. They all burst out laughing


    33. reflecting the pale burst of lunatic light, still and frozen


    34. The whole plume burst into flame with a whoosh and the fire ran up it's fur faster than it could spring out of there


    35. from his lungs in loud burst of hyperbole, sending waves


    36. Breakers sloshed back and forth, spray burst forth in several locations, tentacles knotted as the battle raged in the depths of the pool


    37. She rushed up to the cave and burst in huffing and puffing


    38. Shit, you know, my heart was ready to burst


    39. The silence below was suddenly broken as several rounds of explosives went off and six of the ugly monsters burst into the camp snarling and growling


    40. A sudden burst of coughing and laughter, and they collapsed onto the ground

    41. I found that by filling my lungs each time I surfaced I was able to claw myself back down, probing the stones and strange shaped sea-shells until I was about to burst


    42. and the shrapnel burst, desiccating


    43. When it dawned on them that I knew what they were up to, they burst into shameless sniggers and gleeful squeaks having been caught out having so much barefaced fun


    44. She looked at the riders and then back at John, and they both burst out laughing again


    45. ’ He replied as I nearly burst with pride at my gg’s performance


    46. Rah started to take off, John looked down and saw her burst into tears, turn and run down the knoll to one of the smaller dragons, Surfman, he guessed


    47. Cyberia flung her arms around her handsome, landed busker and hugged him so tightly that he thought he would burst


    48. She pushed her way thru the crowd of people, and then burst into tears when she saw Johns wound


    49. A burst of cheers and laughter and wild excitement filled the room until Aristethes raised his hands for silence, 'Let us hope that something will come to us soon, in the meantime it is the festival time


    50. We eye each other like a couple of territorial felines but then my sense of the absurd hits me and I burst out laughing, taking him with me














































    1. She was bursting with passion but was also more level-headed than Adam


    2. In his fifties, but he had been a powerful Rugby player in his time and still had that aura of invulnerable solid strength that the Rugby boys have, even if his hair was a little grey and his belly bursting out over the edge of his trousers


    3. She thought about bursting into tears


    4. squinted in the bursting light, rubbed the black holes at the heart of his consciousness


    5. It’s not as if he’s bursting to leave here, after all


    6. and cold-blooded howls rush through my bursting eardrums


    7. ’ She said, raising her eyes and nearly bursting out laughing at his expression


    8. The hall was full to bursting and the comments I heard afterwards were very complimentary – I enclose a cutting from the Readersein describing the event


    9. The boy was almost bursting with glee


    10. Then more came bursting thru the brush, destroying everything in their path

    11. head and hair alive, bursting,


    12. Late one Thursday afternoon in the run up to Christmas the shop was full to bursting with young teenagers on the way home from school or college


    13. With every bus from Stephanos town there came more and more pilgrims arriving for the coming festival until the village seemed full to bursting


    14. The Blue Dragons bursting thru the center of the black ones was portrayed with unbelievable force and he could recognize Wolf and Big John


    15. I jumped behind the screen again and kept as still as a statue, watching, as two of the local boys come bursting through the string


    16. The next day, with the show ground full to bursting with every type of plant, with new roses, new fuscias, begonias, hostas and hebe, with the walkways full to bursting with eager competitors and excited crowds, the judging commenced


    17. ’ The receptionist said, obviously bursting to know who has sent them and why


    18. screamed and screamed for help, bursting her lungs with her wild


    19. was full to bursting with young teenagers on the way home from


    20. The Phoenix came bursting out of warp and just as quickly slowed as it approached Aura

    21. walkways full to bursting with eager competitors and excited


    22. his plant’s fire-red flowers, flowers bursting with energy and


    23. steel head came bursting through the skin


    24. was shining, and there was a distinct sense of spring bursting forth in


    25. Clumps of primrose are already bursting through the early grass heads as cows lay down in fields under a changing sky


    26. The road is quiet and Billy is vaguely aware of bird song, of blackbirds and robins marking territory and singing out loud to keep their tiny little hearts from bursting


    27. unanswered questions, and he was practically bursting with


    28. The McCoists? For a fleeting second she believes it, but then the simple truth comes bursting through


    29. ‘Sorry, I don’t know what’s wrong with me,’ I snuffle … bursting into tears; I cling to him helplessly


    30. It was in a lush equatorial highland with bright blue sky and water, bold clouds and bursting greens everywhere else

    31. true method of bursting into tears, I got the credit card


    32. they widened even further, when the other orchid blade came bursting out of his chest


    33. Though it was well beyond midnight, the city was bursting with activity from the Festival of Life


    34. Half of the travelers were on the ground, twitching, green spots growing on their flesh from where they were struck, their veins clogging then bursting through their skin while their lifeblood pooled around them, thick and dark


    35. The bark ridges running up the trunk were as thick as Brice, and though leafless and rotting, the tree reached the apex of the tower's interior, nearly bursting through the arched rib shaped trusses well over twenty stories up


    36. Inwardly Brice could sense she was bursting with glee not only because of the trick she played on Tetloan, but also from anticipation, fully expecting to awe the crowd and her instructors with her performance


    37. His voice bursting with forced bonhomie


    38. "What are you waiting for? Run!" She called out, and soon afterwards several wolf helms appeared, bursting through the darkness


    39. Her body and her energy bursting out as one


    40. The town seemed full to bursting with

    41. Already his veins had blackened and swelled to near bursting with the infection


    42. Instead of bursting into celebration at the home-coming of their allies, the gathering watched their grim debarment in silence


    43. piteously, their udders bursting now


    44. consisted of my peers, had increased to a bursting point and there


    45. bursting balloons in the ears of sleeping beauties, and I tell you,


    46. They were bursting with sweet oil


    47. Penelope’s reflections abruptly ceased, the images bursting and falling to the ground like glass shards


    48. To dream of a bursting dam denotes that you have lost control of your anger and are overwhelmed with emotions


    49. He continued laboring over her heatedly and then another orgasm swelled from within her to a tremendous bursting, only to be followed by still a third eruption which tore through her being with delightful ferocity


    50. such a puzzled expression that she could not help bursting out laughing: and













































    1. What if you were to just do 30 second bursts of


    2. ’ Adrian started, then, realizing that his wife is winding him up, bursts out laughing


    3. The bedroom door bursts open and, by the light spilling in from the sitting room, Stephen rushes in, his hair all awry, wearing his dressing gown


    4. The door bursts open and Mohammed comes in, breathless


    5. The big man was glaring at him and breathing loudly through his nose, forcing the air out in short bursts


    6. Joshua looked down into the eyes of the guard, still breathing in short bursts and mumbling something under his breath


    7. She could render it out into numbers and even see that the field she had labeled 'address modifier' was often '1', but sometimes had bursts of bigger numbers with attention codes


    8. About the only thing she really knew is that large data bursts were usually introduced with header activity in those first headers Thom had discovered on channel thirty seven


    9. With powerful bursts of laser light, the treatment achieves this result with less reddening and irritation than other peels


    10. He bursts out laughing

    11. Rays of sunlight were catching the diamond teardrop earrings of a stunningly beautiful young lady in the opposite stand and it was these bursts of pure radiance that were catching Terry’s attention


    12. I explain and she bursts into peals of laughter causing one or two of the other browsers in the shop to look at us sharply


    13. ’ She said as Treacle bursts through the cat flap


    14. Jo, who’s sitting close by, overhears this and bursts into fits of laughter


    15. This is too much for Kerry who bursts out laughing


    16. and it was these bursts of pure radiance that were catching Terry’s


    17. Synthetic star shine bursts from the PA and the grind resumes


    18. She bursts thru it into a large and ornate chamber


    19. Staccato bursts; calm down, blood and guts, one of them is still there


    20. The door bursts open; the two youngsters rush in and swamp me

    21. She loved him, for all the little things that made him, him including his loud out bursts


    22. His companions lent him their approval with several bursts of “Aye!"


    23. She burst into tears and clung to him, her breath coming in short ragged bursts


    24. Thunder rolled through the sky accompanied by bursts of lighting and flame


    25. Glowering at the falling shapes, he craned his neck to the sky and when the heavens glowed beneath a series of bursts, he noted with anger and disgust that the number of specks floating above had greatly diminished since the last time he looked


    26. Four rapid bursts of energy stunned them, his blade-shaped hands cut them down


    27. Of being and bursts at the seams


    28. The DOOR BURSTS open


    29. When a strange face bursts in the door, well, it’s a reflex


    30. Once more he let fly the vibrant bursts from his hand and chuckled haughtily at the dragon as it hovered

    31. There was a fire, a small one, which she put it out in seconds with a couple of quick bursts from the CO2 fire-extinguisher


    32. Mark then flicked his torch on for three quick bursts


    33. His tritanium form glinted in intermittent bursts as he ran in the June sun


    34. Raiya was quiet; Torbin guessed she was embarrassed by Roidon’s current condition: he was babbling away in incoherent bursts, seemingly exited about heading towards space


    35. ” We ran across and dived into the trench on the other side as the machine gun chattered into life and sent a few bursts our way we all made it safely though


    36. Then sometimes it just bursts through


    37. “She fires concentrated bursts of gamma radiation that interfere with organ function and damage


    38. It was a rasping, high-pitched shriek that came in quick bursts: Scree! Scree! Scree! Closer it came, closer


    39. I began to fire short bursts into the oncoming ranks and I was beginning to rack up quite a score as Bert changed the magazines for me


    40. “Covering fire, keep those Huns heads down”, I felt a tap on my shoulder from Ted and I started sending short bursts from the Lewis gun over to the enemy

    41. I calculated the distance and then sent short bursts of fire into their ranks I watched my bullets strike home and saw men drop and I remembered the Battalion this morning


    42. I felt them and my hand came away sticky with blood a machine gunner must have seen me and I had to hide behind Sam’s body as he opened up sending bursts my way


    43. The light flashed in lurid bursts as the man spoke


    44. energy bursts that occasionally showed up in the points were the result of another point within the


    45. The air-shuttle's Geiger counter alarm whined in increasing bursts over these small pockets of wasteland


    46. A car in every garage and a television in every room is the stuff that middle-class dreams are made of! It is questionable, however, in light of diminishing incomes and job displacements precipitated by the emergence of cheap(er) labor from across our borders and the outsourcing of jobs overseas, not to mention a bubbling economy, that American families will be able to sustain its frenzied lifestyles once that bubble bursts


    47. It was in long bursts which are the trademark of undisciplined troops


    48. A place where understanding bursts forth in realization!


    49. Normally the double tap kind or short bursts which is a Special Forces trademark


    50. "Oh, right," I answered, my breath punctuated by bursts of grey mist condensing on the cold winter air














































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    Synonyms for "burst"

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    "burst" definitions

    the act of exploding or bursting


    rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms


    a sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason)


    a sudden intense happening


    come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure


    force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up


    burst outward, usually with noise


    move suddenly, energetically, or violently


    be in a state of movement or action


    emerge suddenly


    cause to burst


    break open or apart suddenly and forcefully