burst out

VERB
  1. appear suddenly
    Spring popped up everywhere in the valley
  2. give sudden release to an expression
    We burst out laughing
    `I hate you,' she burst out
  3. erupt or intensify suddenly
    Tempers flared at the meeting
    Unrest erupted in the country
    The crowd irrupted into a burst of patriotism
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How To Use burst out In A Sentence

  • Your imagination will burst out, no matter how hard you try to contain it so get in first and showcase your ideas. The Sun
  • It's the guerdon, the reward, the prize of fame that we're continually anticipating will burst out someday in a sudden blaze of glory.
  • If at all he became angry, he would keep quiet rather than burst out in a fit of temper.
  • After releasing it, he burst out with the question that was foremost in his thoughts.
  • At every halting place the natives capered before them and tabored a welcome, while at Kama, where Gelele was staying, they not only played, but burst out with an extemporaneous couplet in Burton's honour: The Life of Sir Richard Burton
  • Madeleine burst out laughing at my grumpy expression and threw one of her pillows at me.
  • The Second World War burst out finally.
  • As the last words came hoarsely forth on to the night air, _clang, clang, clang_, burst out the tocsin of the alarm bell, silencing the music in the ballroom and sending an electric thrill through every listener within the precincts of the castle; but ere the great bell had sent forth a score of vibrating notes which came quivering through the darkness and echoing from every wall, the clattering of hoofs began in obedience to the whispered commands of his Majesty of France: The King's Esquires The Jewel of France
  • When I told him it was my pen friend in America his smile got so much bigger and sarkier I thought he might burst out laughing. LOSING IT
  • At the initial interview, I found out that he also strongly feared the dark, had a history of night terrors and bed-wetting, and sometimes burst out in a violent temper.
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