outburst
Example Sentences
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In the 20th century, several catastrophic glacial lake outbursts took place, including a 1941 incident in Peru that killed at least 1,800 people.
Her outburst draws attention from a car pulling into a parking spot.
From Literature
"This is certainly an outburst unlike any other we have seen in the past 50 years," said Eliza Neights, an astronomer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
From Science Daily
But the recent outburst of innovation, combined with the heated rivalries among the nation’s battery makers, seems to be moving up the clock.
The nobleman reported the outburst to the king, sure that the painter would be punished.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
