Example sentences for: outburst

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

  • The LAT calls Yeltsin's comments, which came while he was in China to win support for the Chechnya operation, an "outburst," and compares it to Nikita Kruschev's "We will bury you."

  • Media coverage was generally enthusiastic, with several commentators celebrating the bust as an overdue outburst of courage.

  • It was the primal scene of maternal betrayal, the older woman eliciting the confession all too easily from the younger one and then using it to make her the laughingstock of the nation: Walters asks Lewinsky to imagine hypothetical children; Lewinsky tells them that "Mommy made a big mistake"; Walters concludes with a stunning outburst of moral hypocrisy, "And that is the understatement of the year."

  • I am honored to be the vessel for such a thrilling outburst of classic Ephronism.

  • It might be, however, that his contempt is too much on the surface, so that his bitterly conclusive outburst to his daughter on a mountaintop in Switzerland feels less than earthshaking.


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