Example sentences for: erupt

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

  • And yet we persevere; it becomes personal--to weather a storm is one of the ultimate challenges of the sea; to see it calm from its fury is like emerging from the dark side of the moon; euphoric moods erupt only to be outdone by the euphoria of returning home.

  • The later, whimsical novels of Elmore Leonard have been all too put-downable, but Soderbergh contrives the perfect voice for Leonard's prose--laid-back and grooving when it needs to be, but also taut, with the eerie foreboding of violence about to erupt.

  • If war does erupt, it may not be contained as it was in Bosnia.

  • "The sex drive in a man is almost volcanic in its latent ability to erupt at the slightest provocation."

  • This restless spirit has the power to cause steam vents to erupt and windows to explode in showers of glass.


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