Sentence examples for burst from inspiring English sources

The word "burst" is both correct and usable in written English.
It is a verb meaning to suddenly break open, break apart, or come apart. It is generally used to describe an action, but can also be used to describe a sound, or an emotion. Example sentence: The balloon suddenly burst with a loud pop.

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burst

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To break from internal pressure.

  • I blew the balloon up too much, and it burst.

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Breathing through the anus allows nymphs to propel themselves through the water with a sudden, turbo-charged burst of speed to escape predators.

SH Daniel is a very intuitive actor – he felt the stillness which comes from grief in an era when men didn't  burst into tears and weep over their friends.

Just imagine what could happen to those protectionist US tendencies if the bubble does burst, and Alan Greenspan starts regretting his decision not to get out while the going was good.

The band's singer Michael Stipe and Buck's wife Stephanie burst into tears as the jury cleared him of a charge of being drunk on an aircraft last April, two counts of common assault, and one charge of damaging BA crockery.

My heart leaps indecently when I glimpse a rockery in a front garden, a burst of cherry blossom, a mock-Tudor semidetached frontage, or any suggestion of individual fantasy.

With hostilities in Ukraine rumbling on and the battle against Islamic State far from over, there is always the risk that one of the world's simmering conflicts will burst into life.

When it burst he was left owing Anglo – and hence the Irish taxpayer – billions.

The contradiction clamoured: the imperialist who wanted to withdraw from the far east, the apparently cold man who once burst into passionate tears in the Commons, the confirmed anti-planner who took on the essentially planning job of minister of health in 1960.

But it was a short burst, then I remember thinking, "I don't want this anymore".

When I was done, to celebrate our mutually beneficial burst of creativity, we went for a drink.

Watson, who emerged from a miserable personal series with a dominant Test-best 176 to fire Australia to 307 for four, burst out laughing when asked whether he had been pleased to hear that England were handing a debut to the young Lancashire spinner Simon Kerrigan rather than recalling Chris Tremlett to their bowling attack.

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