Example Sentences

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The Amazon site, which is seen as key to pulling in other companies, is set to take up nearly half the space, from where it will run its bourgeoning operations across Africa.

From BBC • Sep. 13, 2021

The Rental, which is the first movie directed by the actor Dave Franco, is a noteworthy entry in the bourgeoning minigenre of Airbnb horror movies, largely for how little spin it puts on the concept.

From Slate • Jul. 23, 2020

Households like Joseph’s numbered in the dozens in the 1970s, particularly among a bourgeoning community of lesbian feminists from Washington, D.C.; to New York City; to Ann Arbor, Michigan, who launched collective houses.

From Slate • Nov. 25, 2019

By the early 1950s, the bourgeoning American middle class had purchased second cars, moved to the suburbs and discovered the primal joys of television.

From Time • Apr. 14, 2016

Everywhere nature was budding and bourgeoning; the birds twittering their arrival from the south; the insects making the best of their brief span of life.

From Jennie Gerhardt A Novel by Dreiser, Theodore