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- noun Plural form of
burst . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
burst .
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Examples
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When the word bursts from my mouth, everything goes black, and suddenly I feel the rush of wind past my eyes, my face.
Losing Faith Denise Jaden 2010
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You hold on till you are purple in the face, till it seems your arms are dragging out of their sockets, till the blood bursts from the ends of your fingers.
SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010
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Your energy comes in bursts, after which you need a long nap or a couple of evenings at home to recuperate.
MEME: Gakked from missmurchison missmurchison 2009
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Drucker's solutions for fragmented executives--reserve large blocks of time on your calendar, don't answer the phone, and return calls in short bursts once or twice a day--sound remarkably like the ones offered up by today's time- and information-management experts.
Recover From Information Overload Derek Dean 2011
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But short-term bursts of gas prices have very little to do with these long-term trends.
Robert Creamer: Time for Financial Regulators to Limit Speculation in Oil Market Robert Creamer 2011
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After 6 months of writing in bursts of emotional agony, I was better.
When Should You Use Your Personal Pain In Your Writing? | The Creative Penn 2009
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Unleash all that perfectionism in bursts of activity if need be.
5 Battle Strategies for Winning the War on Perfectionism | Write to Done 2010
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For the first 30 minutes, there are no branches, so I sprint upward in bursts, and then rest in my harness, panting and spinning in the open air.
Taking Tree-Hugging to New Heights Benjamin Percy 2010
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Unger's plot bursts from the starting gate and never lets up, as Ridley pieces together the puzzle that is her past.
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The highly plotted aspect of this, and the short sections, often from different characters 'points of view, enabled me to write in bursts, often on the morning train I take from where I live in Connecticut to my office in
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