But like a bulb bursting out in a riot of colour, the inner runner in me is back and ready to do this.
After they began the game 5 of 8 from the field, jumping ahead by 17-5, the scorching start stopped like a light bulb bursting.
Behind me, and to each side of the stage, massive LED screens project my image across the site, and flash bulbs burst as photographers follow my every move.
Bulbs burst forth from the Earth, sending up tender shoots.
As Mr. Navalny, a former real estate lawyer, has been gleefully pointing out, this means that every broken light bulb and burst pipe is now the party's problem.
Their flavor is fully developed and the bulbs still burst with juice.
So thick was the sound within the Masonic Lodge's cavernous space, it's a wonder the room's dim chandelier bulbs didn't burst, the lead holding the stained glass didn't liquefy or Gozer the Destructor (or L. Ron Hubbard) didn't roar back from the great beyond. .
The device employs a Gitto "Rocket" air blower bulb to shoot a burst of anti-static air onto the sensor for a one-two punch against dust.
Bulbs, shoots and buds burst forth from the earth, exploding open, exposing their tender green growth.
Light from the Sun or from a light bulb comes in many tiny bursts lasting about a millionth of a millionth of a second and having a coherence length of about one centimetre.
A single act of love and, nine months later, this flowering, as mindless and senseless as a crocus bursting out of a bulb.
