How To Use Burst In A Sentence

We had been talking and laughing a great deal for more than half an hour when suddenly the lady burst into tears.
They soon added a try when one of their strong running centres burst through some ineffectual tackling to score under the posts.
Better to wait until bubbles burst and manage the consequences, softening the economic blow by loosening monetary policy very quickly.
And while they were in the midst of their banqueting, the door was suddenly burst open, and the Dagda stood there, with his men.
A cornucopia of flowers bursts through rockery walls. What Does A $75 Million Luxury House Look Like?

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Every so often a rabbit would make a desperate, lung-bursting bid for freedom, only to provide an easy target for the twelve-bores.
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him. Northern Rock - Pay staff a bonus with public cash.
But the outburst served to confirm the extent of his alienation from reality.
Suzy Menkes noted in an article that the jewels the Duchess of Windsor gave Princess Michael included: ‘a gold sunburst suite set with pearls and a pair of emerald panther earrings.’
Some of his more drunken friends burst into song.
After an initial burst of enthusiasm for jogging, I gradually lost interest.
Before long the five-man dam burst. Times, Sunday Times
The heat touched off the Hi-Thrust which burst in a needle flame from the petcock. The Stars My Destination
September 9th, 2009 10: 03 pm ET cong. wilson 's outburst, is the worse thing i have heard in the congress to a president. GOP congressman heckles Obama during health-care speech
This amusing little bon mot v ill-timed by me as I think she had post-traumatic test disorder because she burst into tears. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
It was indeed, the dirty brown hair was neatly combed and the coat was new and clean, he was smiling fit to burst as he entertained giggling ladies and laughing lords.
Speaking in rapid, intense bursts, Smith expanded on his sometimes convoluted story.
When she had said this she looked at Vinicius with astonishment and regret, for he had disaccustomed her to similar outbursts; and he set his teeth, so as not to tell her that he would have given command to beat such a brother with sticks, or would have sent him as a compeditus Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero
Caffeine appears to offer ergogenic benefits during prolonged exercise, but not during short-burst, high-intensity activities.
I used to muzzleload, had a TC Hawkin flintlock, as heavy as that barrel is it would take alot to burst it, dunno if "modern" muzzleloaders are as hefty or not, but I assume they are just for product liability reasons. Flying Ramrods and Broken Noses
In Thinking, a crocheted openwork of rusted wire bursts from a metal drum.
He threw his weight at the door and it burst open.
For decades, such films were low-grade romances with weak plots interfused with 20-odd musical outbursts.
Life is just like an old time rail journey ... delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride. Gordon B. Hinckley
I often think a parvenue, or half-bred woman, would burst if she had to do as I do. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
This is the more surprising given the many build-up signs anticipating much greater outbursts of millenarian fervor around the year 2000.
Its popularity in 1948 with both schoolchildren and adults saw the Blossom Street picture house bursting at the seams during matinees and evening performances for weeks on end.
How often I have I known him affect an open brow and a jovial manner, joining in the games of the gentry, and even in the sports of the common people, in order to invest himself with a temporary degree of popularity; while, in fact, his heart was bursting to witness what he called the degeneracy of the times, the decay of activity among the aged, and the want of zeal in the rising generation. Redgauntlet
Suddenly the door opened and a man burst in exclaiming: ‘Trescothick's gone first ball!’
The problem was sparked by a burst water pipe on Monday which leaked into the gas mains.
Your imagination will burst out, no matter how hard you try to contain it so get in first and showcase your ideas. The Sun
Och, sad mishanter! On the stairs Pate bursts upon them unawares.
Vermont, far removed from all beasts of prey -- why is it that upon the sunniest day, if you but shake a fresh buffalo robe behind him, so that he cannot even see it, but only smells its wild animal muskiness -- why will he start, snort, and with bursting eyes paw the ground in phrensies of affright? Moby Dick, or, the whale
This is rapidly emerging as a deeply divisive political issue, although it has yet to burst into the open. Times, Sunday Times
There are times of praise, adoration, extolment, when thankfulness is more exuberant, runs over into bursting joy, and times when longing desire carries us into the very bosom of God. The Right Knock A Story
Bringing what little money he had saved after sending Serafina her giros postales, he would burst into the familiar cantinas on Santa Fe Street and buy beer for his old acquaintances. Centennial
Then, the bubble burst and thousands of investors were ruined.
Earlier, in a dramatic outburst, he claimed he was not getting a fair hearing after being refused permission to call a witness.
Diana's house was crowded with happy people whose spontaneous outbursts of song were accompanied by lively music.
It was too much of an effort to play the acquiescent wife: her heart would burst. THE HELLBOUND HEART
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.
Her wounds appeared fresh; she had burst into tears and could not be consoled for quite some time.
When the currants start to burst and flood the pan with colour, tip in the loganberries or raspberries.
The valley is quiet and serene, and right now is bursting with the energy and exuberance of spring - the trees are budding, the daffodils bobbing, the birds are busy, the lambs are bleating and there are calves suckling.
His features were deadpan but his voice was bursting with emotion.
And in such a case envy will be sure to work and boil up to a more than ordinary height, while the envious person frets, and raves, and swells at the plenties and affluence of his abounding neighbour, and (as I may so express it) is even ready to burst with another's fulness. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
Mircobursts are similar to downbursts, but only smaller.
Broad beans are positively bursting with health and promise a bumper crop any minute now.
The hairline crack split wider as a burst of green energy shot forth through it.
Suddenly from above us a twenty-foot-long heavy log burst into view, careening down the path like a bobsled.
She burst into tears and said she hadn't spoken to her mother for three years. The Sun
Some of the children became prone to violent outbursts, irritability, nightmares, and insomnia.
The sun burst forth again.
The two fish were paired with fresh vegetables and tiny fried potato globes, which were all brought nicely together by a rich cream sauce and punctuated with a brilliant red burst of caviar.
If at all he became angry, he would keep quiet rather than burst out in a fit of temper.
Then suddenly the door burst open and a man ran in. Times, Sunday Times
Clyde must have mistaken violent outbursts to mean outbursts of violence rather than intense, brief tantrums. DO NO HARM
You just shout at them and they burst into tears.
Jacqui looked at me, her eyes shining with not relief or left over fear or any other emotion instead she burst into a spate of giggles.
A youth - accused of rape, housebreaking and theft - burst into tears yesterday when his mother asked the court to keep him in jail for his own safety.
Much to my surprise Ben suddenly burst into song.
The present situation, of periodical outbursts in the press, is an inadequate way of fostering good relationships with the Asian community and does not encourage change and communal harmony.
I began to panic, terrified that the car would burst into flames and I wouldn't be able to escape.
Finally she burst through the surface and took the oils and scrubs and lathered her body with them.
Boll W, Griffin AM, Kirchhausen T (2006) A burst of auxilin recruitment determines the onset of clathrin-coated vesicle uncoating. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
Then as he looked at the young man's careless attitude and smiling face, he burst forth, admiringly: "Dey done tole me as how yo 'wor' That Printer of Udell's
Michelle burst into a fit of giggles, rolling back onto her tiny bunk.
I didn't expect him until dinnertime. He just about scared the bejabbers out of me as he sneaked up behind me and burst into this sudden, uproarious laughter.
Before anyone else could say anything, the door burst open and the birds all screeched and flew to the top of the roost.
After releasing it, he burst out with the question that was foremost in his thoughts.
No one likes receiving emotional, intemperate outbursts, even from people who think they have been wrongly accused.
I don't have any evidence, but it seems that many types of humor may in fact generally anger him to the point of bursting a vein or two.
One of the executioners then pulled off a kind of furred tippet which covered her bosom; her modesty taking the alarm, made her start back a few steps; she turned pale, and burst into tears. The Pacha of Many Tales
Last week's chemical accident in Hungary, when about 184 million gallons of caustic sludge and water burst from a storage pool of a metals plant inundating three western Hungarian towns and spilling into the Danube, is yet another reminder that accidents happen at chemical facilities. Elizabeth Hitchcock: In The Public Interest : How Many Reminders Do We Need Before We Act to Reduce Chemical Accident Risk?
This sounds like quite an outburst, but it's funny when she says it.
The dam burst under the weight of water.
My favorite sci-fi visual effect will always be the chest burster from Alien.
The eighteen guns were back in the cemetery, and a storm of shell began bursting over and among our infantry.
Gypsy moth egg hatch occurs at about the time of budburst of red and black oaks.
First of all, the pace of the game is not only slower, but it's suited more to strategic bursts of speed and demonstrations of power.
It's that time of year when gimmicky wines with daft labels burst upon us in the supermarkets.
The bubble burst late last year as the economy started sputtering, and now about 10 per cent of credit card debt is more than one month overdue in Asia's fourth-largest economy.
England stood forth as the centre of opposition against Philip, and under the unwilling leadership of Elizabeth entered on its epic period of heroism, was stimulated to that remarkable outburst of energy and intellect and power which we call the Elizabethan age. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10
She earned 60,000 a year as a web designer before the tech bubble burst. Times, Sunday Times
The dam burst, swamping the valley and hundreds of homes.
July fireworks into a bursting full tilt, hi-def, fruit loop weird-plosion. John McNamara: Palin: Idiot? Genius? Or Something Else?
In their opening and closing games England's lumbering back four were hopelessly outmanoeuvred by bursts of fast, mobile, unpredictable attacks, like tankers anchored as speedboats darted around them.
Now, my meatloaf is less a loaf than a giant meatball, filled with bursts of blue cheese and sweet white onion. Eater Of Worlds | ATTACKERMAN
Pasted-in bursts of muted cymbal and guitar are stabbed and splashed against it.
See five great options and a brief history of the 'sunburst' style over the centuries. The Sunburst Mirror
Gamma radiation from an airburst will cause death to people caught in the open to a distance of about 1,400 yards.
He came back from his holiday bursting with vitality and good health.
The viewer was greeted by a starburst of white lines radiating from the center of a yellow, rectangular, floor-to-ceiling field.
In the brief first act Leigh shows Jean, a Brummie girl who lives alone in a Kilburn bedsit, having joyless sex with a married man played by Daniel Coonan whose wife suddenly bursts in upon them. Ecstasy - review
Boils of dark gloop, a mix of oil, water, sulphur and gas, burst up in the island's centre.
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
This dog will scare easily and will most probably beat you to the hiding place if an intruder bursts into your home!
Smoothes the skin, tightens the pores, and provides an instant burst of radiance, as it stimulates microcirculation. French Word-A-Day:
Other times it was right on - the sunbursts that ended up coming from behind Derek's head as his band launched into the stratosphere.
Temperatures high enough to melt silicates and make droplets of glass are commonly found near surface bursts.
Then in English she burst into a fiery political speech.
A Los Angeles artist who gave that city's art establishment a bursting sense of pride for having nurtured such an obstreperous talent, he earned his celebrity status in part by retaining the obsessions and wounds of a smart Catholic working-class kid from the suburbs of Detroit who had never entirely assimilated to his sun-splashed California home. How Will the Future Judge Him?
Denise and her gleaming sunburst guitar are set to take the stage with some feel-good rhythms and tasty new melodies fresh from her new forthcoming album ‘The Tangerine Moon’.
The newspapers and magazines that fed the American mind — for books upon this impatient continent had become simply material for the energy of collectors — were instantly a coruscation of war pictures and of headlines that rose like rockets and burst like shells. The War in the Air
He will be asked to utilise the pace of Michael Owen in answer to the ferocious, explosive bursts for which Argentina are renowned.
If not, better to burst the bubble while you are still emotionally intact. Times, Sunday Times
He expected it to almost sever that limb, but there were only a burst of golden flame, a gout of white sparks, and a smoldering sleeve. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
Madeleine burst out laughing at my grumpy expression and threw one of her pillows at me.
In fact, this mini-album seems to entirely results of an enthusiastic outburst of energy, nurtured while the man was regularly deejaying at squatters parties during the nineties.
He burst in on the meeting.
Worst hit was Helmsley where the River Rye burst its banks.
An important development of the early sixteenth century was the Apocalyptic image of her, standing in front of a sunburst, crowned with twelve stars, with at her feet a crescent moon.
A huge enemy shell burst a few yards to the right front of the amtrack, hurling seawater skyward, as Sledge clung to the rail. Brotherhood of Heroes
We all held our breath till the bomb burst.
From a vantage point of twenty feet away they all crouched, watching the car, which appeared disinclined to burst into flame. LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
Short bursts of incidental daylight as you go about your business should be sufficient for most people. Times, Sunday Times
It's the size of the fire created by a one megaton airburst.
He was working under the bonnet when it burst into flames. The Sun
Our giggling stopped with a burst followed by an answering burst of machine-gun fire coming from the river about fifty yards away.
The fireballs grow in intensity until the sky is a curtain of drizzling flame bursts.
Adam Lee burst into the crowd and pulled the bleeding Rebel from the battered Yankee.
Equation for short-time burst pressure of pipes reinforced by cross helically wound wires (PSP) was formulated based on method of force equivalent.
You've no right to burst in here, making all these accusations and bullying an old man. A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
Bursting with frantic energy, wry humour and a multitude of voices, it might be best described as a romantic comedy-thriller, but even this fails to capture its sparkling originality.
Older and chubbier, which doesn't matter, he is a torrentially powerful, elemental actor, whose outbursts mesmerize, and whose very silences impress.
A student and his aunt were shot dead by a gang of five men who burst into her home hunting for another man, their family said yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
Half the arrows were notched as the second dragon burst from nowhere.
Moog 's concert footage does feature some notable players (Money Mark and Mix Master Mike, funkster Bernie Worrell, Rick Wakeman from Yes, a brief burst of Stereolab). The Birth of the Synthesizer
The leaves of the great poplar he climbed in gleamed as though polished; bead-like fruit dangled, inviting young hands to burst the green capsules open and release the fluffy seed.
I think about July, the trumpet vine blaring from the pump house, morning glories bursting through the fence like pieces of sky. Peg nemeth | two by « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
We were having a great time when suddenly he burst a blood vessel. The Sun
Pickering's hyla, his little bagpipe blown almost to bursting as he tries to rally the scattered summer by his tiny, mighty "skirl. The Hills of Hingham
Then, within ten feet of the goal, Robbie's pace slowed suddenly to the merest of crawls, and Gloria, with one final burst of wild speed, dashed pantingly past him to touch the welcome bark of home-tree first.
One character grew particularly animated, becoming red-faced as he struggled to contain the words that burst forth, recalling Offaly teams from bygone eras who had fought so bravely with their scant resources. FIRECRACKER
It started raining, two or three clouts on the table then a cloudburst. WHITE LIES
The sound wound up in me, until it burst from my mouth.
Then the facts are burst upon them, and they shrink from their husbands in loathing and horror.
Bursting from the trees ahead of him, three black shapes came hurtling towards him over the pine needle floor of the clearing.
An unnamed young man died from a single shot to the chest when a gang knocked on the front door and burst in. The Sun
The optimistic bubble has now burst and economists agree the recession will continue.
The occasional burst of speed is required to outrun real and imaginary predators.
In a burst of wikipanic, Bank of America has dived into full-on counterespionage mode. Bank Of America Sets Up WikiLeaks Defense Team
Their sudden outburst was obviously genuine; it couldn't have been contrived.
A forceful outburst blew over the garden.
Here was Spain having its hottest summer for years and we turn up to an absolute cloudburst.
That enterprise led to what I thought was a particularly repellent burst of American / European chauvinism - a fantasy that there was nothing there before the Europeans arrived.
A great epidemic burst forth in that area.
Then she bursts into infectious laughter. Times, Sunday Times
It slides almost seamlessly into ‘Flute Thang’, which lives up to its name with extensive flute soloing over piano arpeggios and short guitar bursts.
I pause to flex my muscles and prepare for flight in case some sort of ghost or troglodyte bursts out to eat our bones or whatever part of us a ghost might eat.
When the Indians set fire to the main building as well as the sheds, the flames fanned into a sunburst, and their smoke stifled the people of Fort Mims.
One final, explosive question remains: Why did a virus that was once so rare suddenly burst into a global pandemic?
Sorry, but if Wilson's outburst was "uncivil," what is lying to the American people called? Resolution criticizing Wilson passes, on mostly partisan vote
When angered, Ellen was given to spontaneous outbursts, while her partner Terry would do a slow burn.
The Second World War burst out finally.
She jumps when the small explosive bursts, splitting the wood in half as intended, and Ted smiles, laughs, and then walks her through the process again.
We burst from the darkness into the hard white morning heat of the plaza, at a dead run.
In climacteric fruits such as peaches and tomato, ripening is associated with a characteristic burst of respiration which correlates with an increase in ethylene production.
And then halfway through the tune, for the bridge, we'd burst into a whale solo, a poor imitation of whale clicks and moans and calls.
Then the fad proved short-lived, as many traders suffered substantial losses when the internet bubble burst. Times, Sunday Times
When she saw that the new bride was Snow White, her evil heart swelled with passion and burst.
There is no doubt that Hammarskj6ld's northern sense of propriety was deeply shaken by the roughness of the outburst, and ironically, since the Russian code of what is socially permissible comes largely across the Baltic from Sweden, it was precisely this rowdy behavior of Khrushchev's, dubbed Ne-Kulturny (uncultured), which eventually proved his undoing at home. An Autobiography
And ever the river was growing rougher and ruder; ever its backbone was beginning to puiver and flounder like a whale underfoot, with its liquescent body of cold, grey, murky water bursting with increasing frequency from its shell of ice, and lapping hungrily at our feet. Through Russia
They had burst the bubble of their mediocrity. Times, Sunday Times
Orange flames burst from the root of his right wing and billowed back toward the tail, turning into coal-black smoke.
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
Her head felt as if it would burst.
Mom burst into tears as the minister pronounced us man and wife.
Then burst his mighty heart," priority is given to a word embodying both predicate and copula. The Philosophy of Style
They had not intended to spend the afternoon, but found themselves too fascinated to turn away from the breakers bursting upon the rocks and from the many kinds of colorful sea life starfish, crabs, mussels, sea anemones, and, once, in a rock-pool, a small devilfish that chilled their blood when it cast the hooded net of its body around the small crabs they tossed to it. CHAPTER VI
He smells every starling and chipmunk and fox, every lichen and fern and touch-me-not bursting up through dead leaves on his trail. Moving Among Them
He also is undecided on his emotions, chopping and changing between angry violent outbursts and whiny emotional pleas.
For decades, Hindi films were low-grade romances with weak plots interfused with 20-odd musical outbursts.
He turned on the heat as high as it would go, and an alarming gust of hot air burst through the broken vents.
She burst through the door pursued by two men.
Would the blandishing enchanter still weave his spells around me, or should I burst them all and turn away in coldness! Master Humphrey's Clock
Victor whacked her hard on the back and Antonia burst into a fit of coughs.
He burst to the surface, straining for air.
Butterflies Are Not Free, burst with passionate songwriting in the style of what he calls "bohemian noir. NPR Topics: News
_ -- The whole formation is Archean and Primary (with a few modern plutonic outbursts), and chiefly consists of granite, felspar, quartz, gneiss, schists, amphibolite and other Archean rocks, with Primary sandstones and limestones in the basin of Lake Nyasa (a great rift depression), the river Shiré, and the regions within the northern watershed of the Zambezi river. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
Nothing could be gathered from the outside, except remarks on the various properties which philosophers ascribe to matter, -- length, breadth, depth, and weight, The packet was composed of strong thick paper, imperviable by the curious eyes of the gossips, though they stared as if they would burst from their sockets. The Antiquary — Complete
The net result is that often passengers arrive home late, in fury and bursting for a pee.
The shops, each retaining many original 1920s art-deco features such as tiling, 'sunburst' lights and engraved glass features are time capsules of suburban shopping from nearly a century ago. Archive 2008-05-01
Somewhere along the way, a pipe bursts in the reactor core and meltdown begins.
More than 70 per cent of Indians depend on farm incomes, and about 65 percent of the nation's farms are not irrigated, meaning they depend entirely on the rains that fall in intense bursts over the wet season. The Economic Times
She managed to scramble out of the vehicle as it burst into flames.
Not all plants should be pruned in February or March, though - evergreens or plants just about to burst into bloom are best given a wide berth.
So, when Japan's real-estate bubble burst and the economy flatlined for over a decade, the world was caught unawares.
Burstyn's pills lead her to delusion and madness; Leto's arm festers with an infected sore from too many needles.
Between shrieks were occasional bursts of words: "Omigod, omigod"!
He admits that his coping skills and personal resources were stretched beyond their limits and he lashed out in a temper outburst.
The heat and concussive force of the airbursts produced the expected results, instantly engulfing the rebel base in an apocalyptic conflagration.
They're efficient bursts of less-is-more rock that ride riffs hard then cut out right before they stale.
But, being unaccustomed to existence as a dragon, by the time the lambent flame burst from his cavernous mouth, Natieasdo had disappeared, taking Lationae with him.
The company went bankrupt, and it burst up completely.
On the ocean surface, its normal cruising speed is about 12 knots, but it is capable of attaining 20 knots in short bursts.
Stunning strike on a rare burst forward with a piledriver from the edge of the box. The Sun
Moments of calm and serenity are interspersed with bursts of extreme violence which increase in frequency as a robbery gone wrong takes its toll. The Sun
His book was sad, and also funny in macabre, characteristic bursts. THE WHITE DOVE
The song consists of one or two piping notes with pauses between each burst. Times, Sunday Times

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