Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
bursts
IPA transcription: [b'ɝsts]
Usage examples
Bursts of unpremeditated frankness
"Why do you brag?" Foma, bursts out upon him.
His wife hung on his arm, and wept aloud with the convulsive bursts of a mother's sorrow.
"Sometimes it smoulders for days and days, and weeks and weeks; then it bursts out like a hurricane."
Picking up a shell just before it bursts in a hospital tent, and throwing it out of the door, is presence of mind."
His fits of gloomy abstraction and violent bursts of temper had alike vanished, or only prevailed at brief intervals.
For them the world of the ideal has no efficient causality, and never bursts into the world of phenomena at particular points.
With quick sensation now The fuming vapour stings; flutter their hearts, And joy redoubled bursts from every mouth In louder symphonies.
Some of his comrades remember still his bursts of righteous wrath, when a boy, against the wanton murder of turtles and other creatures.
The Thomisus' wallet, sheathed in leaves over the greater part of its surface, never bursts; nor does the lid rise, so carefully is it sealed down.