Example sentences for: burgeoned

How can you use “burgeoned” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Merchants played an active role in creating the urban culture that burgeoned at the end of the 17th century, the so-called Genroku era.

  • Spending on disasters by the Federal Emergency Management Agency burgeoned to $13 billion over the last five years from $3.

  • Beginning in the late 1970s, however, Kwanzaa began to attract coverage in the mainstream press . The attention grew as Karenga modified his rhetoric to appeal to a broader audience, and as interest in multiculturalism burgeoned in the late 1980s.

  • Their tough-minded pragmatism survives today not only in Tokyo but also in the dynamic industrial zone that has burgeoned around it in such towns as Kawasaki and Yokohama.

  • When Alberta and Saskatchewan acceded to provincial status in 1905, and the country’s mining, lumber, paper, and pulp industries burgeoned, Laurier championed a new transcontinental railway that would take a more northerly route to serve them — the state-owned Canadian National Railway (C.N.R.)


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