Example sentences for: burst

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

  • "I like to put them on and think, 'You know, Momma looked through these,' " she tells the Globe . Apparently Bakker shares this maudlin optical fascination with Judge Judy Sheindlin, who (according to the Enquirer ) almost "burst into tears" and stopped production of her TV show when she misplaced her reading glasses, which once belonged to her beloved late father.

  • Perhaps it's because the whole irrational frenzy burst through our door and no newspaper's half-baked insinuating detail passed me by that I think of the McCarthy era as inaugurating the postwar triumph of gossip, as the beginning not just of serious politics but of serious everything as entertainment to amuse the mass audience: McCarthyism as the first postwar flowering of the American unthinking that is now everywhere.

  • To escape, evade, fade, run, slink away, vanish, when needed: First incoming shell burst, that clown will fxxx off!

  • Rife with moral didacticism and lapses in logic (how can the black-and-white mobs get so angry yet not burst into color?)

  • "I burst out laughing--he just looked so desperate," the woman says.


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