Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: bursting
IPA transcription: [b'ɝstɪŋ]
Usage examples
  • Like bursting waves from the ocean
  • "What," shouted Farmer John, bursting out laughing.
  • Marguerite's heart was beating well-nigh to bursting.
  • His head felt swollen and enormous, on the point of bursting wide.
  • She looks like a ghost already," said the child, again bursting into tears.
  • Jim's lungs were bursting, and his heart hammering as if it would break his chest.
  • He had gone astray, and out of his bursting lungs a cry of rage and despair went up.
  • The sap was rising in the pines. The willows and aspens were bursting out in young buds.
  • Here he hesitated; upon which, bursting into an agony of tears, she cried out, "O captain!
  • The fire was curling around the front door and bursting through the windows with fierce cracklings.