Sentence examples for brief spurts from inspiring English sources

He talks in brief spurts connected by dashes.

Just before a race, coaches often tell athletes to train very hard in brief spurts.

"Everybody saw him on the big stage last year pitching in brief spurts as a relief pitcher," Maddon said.

Even brief spurts of walking or leg jiggling generate metabolic heat that turns into sweat, as do anger and frustration.

Someone brought a boombox that was blaring disco hits on the deck; there were brief spurts of dancing.

And as we improvised more, the film became more pessimistic, then — in brief spurts, as a contrary reaction — so high-spirited that it almost became optimistic.

After a brief spurt, we will just be back to the long run situation of excessive rationing.

In the 1960s aluminum shafts had a brief spurt of popularity; shafts of fibreglass, graphite, and titanium were introduced into the game in the decades thereafter.

For Total, the brief spurt of production at Kashagan was a highlight of 2013 and increasing production has been explicitly tied to the chief executive's pay.

The Pistons controlled the final three quarters, except for a brief spurt in the third when the Celtics erased a 7-point deficit with a 15-4 salvo.

If this brief spurt of expansion has exhausted itself without creating new jobs, then that bodes ill for recovery in other sources of demand, including consumer spending.And then there are the ugliest statistics of all.