bursts

Example Sentences

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His obsession with late-night television is almost endearing, like a child who bursts into tears on their birthday because someone smooshed a cupcake into their cheek.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026

They also go on to say that "above-average temperatures" are expected for each of the months of June, July and August, and "significant bursts" of heat are expected in the UK, and across Europe.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

But when he finally bursts with a cathartic eleventh-hour speech about the inaccuracy of Krick’s historical forecast, Eisenhower listens.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

Ultrafast lasers generate incredibly short bursts of light that last only picoseconds or femtoseconds.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

Even the development of an organism—the most obviously inherited chain of information—seemed to progress through smooth, continuous stages, and not in discrete bursts.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee