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burst out
verb as in blaze
verb as in break
verb as in break out
verb as in escape
verb as in exclaim
verb as in lam
Strong matches
Weak matches
- bail out
- break out
- cut and run
- cut loose
- duck out
- fly the coop
- get away
- get away with
- get off
- give someone the slip
- go scot-free
- make a getaway
- make getaway
- make off
- make oneself scarce
- play hooky
- run away
- run off
- run out on
- slip away
- steal away
- take a powder
- take flight
- take it on the lam
- take on the lam
- work out of
- wriggle out
Example Sentences
When gunshots burst out, she ran to retrieve her child from school and returned to her house just as a bomb hit next door.
And, as a result, an interesting and important text has burst out of the archives and into public consciousness.
There they were, kicking it with George Stephanopoulos, when Dowd burst out with this observation on the Shutdown Showdown.
He was shushed but not before the entire table burst out laughing in agreement.
Finally, he burst out with an antsy, “Come on, I want to go to war!”
"In the night I heard the howling of a dog," she said, and then flushed up to the roots of her hair when we burst out laughing.
They burst out of the mouth of the canyon, a smoke-wreathed whirlwind, heading for the protection of the river.
I asked the conductor if he had been at the battle; he burst out laughing like a philosopher, as he was, and said "Pas si bete."
"Try to look madly in love," said my friend, ready to burst out laughing at the sight of the long serious face of his neighbour.
They raced eagerly for the patch of light ahead of them and burst out upon a valley of green.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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