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Example sentences for "bursting"

Lexicographically close words:
burse; burst; bursted; bursten; bursteth; bursts; burthen; burthened; burthening; burthens
  1. With one watery eye he looked from one to the other of the two men bursting in on him.

  2. For the world was not right without her; the sunlight was thin; the season of bursting buds was but a pale, lack-lustre imitation of spring.

  3. And Blenham, for his own reasons and after his own fashion, was bursting with rage.

  4. It was a cry of mingled rage and pain; it came bursting explosively from Blenham's lips.

  5. Then it is the German turn, and we see a couple of their shells bursting on our lines, between Vlamertinghe and Dickebusch.

  6. Dirty, ragged, fighting or querulous children covered the pavement, or seemed to be bursting out of the grimy houses.

  7. These great rockets, bursting into stars in the air, slowly fell to the ground shedding a pale and ghastly light on the swarming figures of the tribesmen as they ran swiftly forward.

  8. Then, far up the mountain side, two balls of smoke appeared, one above the other, and after a few seconds the noise of the bursting shells came faintly back.

  9. Instead of bursting into the tirade Alwin expected, Egil flushed and looked away.

  10. When Editha went in at last, her poor little throat was bursting with sobs.

  11. My brain is near bursting with the details which I have sought to remember concerning these discoveries, and yet what assurance have I that I have got even half of them correct?

  12. For nearly two hours this hill was plowed and torn by solid shot and bursting shell, while about one hundred guns on our side, mainly from this crest and Round Top, made sharp response.

  13. Locke's lungs were almost bursting now as he struggled at his chains; his senses reeled; he thought of Eva, and redoubled his efforts.

  14. Meanwhile Locke, his lungs almost bursting and the blood surging to his head, had managed to free himself from his shackles and had floated to the surface of the water.

  15. With bursting muscles he redoubled his efforts.

  16. Her heart swelled to bursting with a glorious and unutterable happiness.

  17. Oh, I know you're just bursting with curiosity to see how I'll do it.

  18. Was this sudden-bursting glory only the sun rising behind storm clouds?

  19. I never saw any thing like the airs of the whole family," rejoined Mrs. Crosbie, bursting with passion.

  20. There has always been an irrepressible conflict between aristocracy and democracy; in times of peace carried on by all the agencies of popular advancement; but in every nation finally bursting into civil war.

  21. Sergius, suddenly arousing from his spiritual stupor and bursting into a shrill laugh.

  22. This reminds us of the Welsh legend, and the bursting of the lake Llion (see page 135, ante).

  23. They could give no other interpretation to this ominous roar, this bursting of the sky with fame, and this dropping down of fire out of the very heavens, consuming instantly everything it touched.

  24. A while we stood silent; and I was about to ask her to repeat the same, when I heard the sound of some one bursting through the bushes below on the braeside.

  25. It seems so funny that I should be set to teach any one to sew," said Mary, bursting into a laugh.

  26. Bubbles were sinking and bursting on every side, and men's hearts were heavy and anxious.

  27. Bursting into the palace, a band of Persians made their way to the presence of the monarch, and slew him on the scene of his impious revelry.

  28. By this time I was very near bursting into tears.

  29. In the first, the stern light of evening far advanced in the background, is commanded by the celestial emanation bursting from above, wrapping the summit in splendour, and diffusing itself in rays more or less devious over the scenery.

  30. In that, the hero like a ball of fire shoots up from the bursting tomb and sinking cerements, and scatters astonishment and dismay.

  31. Then he leads the chestnut up to where Starlight was standing smoking, and throws himself down at his feet, bursting out crying like a child.

  32. Jim couldn't help bursting out laughing from time to time.

  33. Jim and I could hardly keep from bursting out laughing.

  34. I love these fellows, but I never have a chance of seeing them,' cried the boy; so bursting away, he dashed into the thick of the assembled throng.

  35. The boy's heart felt bursting at this sad retrospect of his lot.

  36. The success of the day was the more extraordinary, as the French garrison had not lost a man, except one negro killed by the bursting of a bomb-shell, and the number of their wounded was very inconsiderable.

  37. For instance-- "The spendthrift crocus, bursting through the mould Naked and shivering, with his cup of gold.

  38. They hung on, waiting for that leopard flag and those bursting sails to come down; but they never stirred; only straight at them rushed the Margaret like a bull.

  39. Just then the three children came running up, bursting through the gate all together.

  40. Thrusting the letter into her bosom she ran to Margaret's room, and, bursting into it, told her of the man and his sad message.

  41. She would have spoken, but could not; and, bursting into tears, turned back, and went to her chamber.

  42. As if discharged from a cannon, came bursting through the window a helmeted figure, rope in hand, and alighted erect and commanding on the floor.

  43. With bursting brain and blistered hands he heaved at the box till the blood ran from under his nails.

  44. I can scarce coop triumphing vengeance up From bursting forth in braggart passion.

  45. But he was so excited and bursting with rage that he went right on.

  46. Any one who exceeds that will lose his crowd and, worse than that, he may be killed by the eloquent gentlemen who are bursting with impatience to get the floor, and who are to follow him.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bursting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abundant; agog; alive; aroused; banging; blasting; bloated; bountiful; brimming; bristling; bulging; bursting; capacity; congested; copious; crammed; crawling; creation; crowded; distended; drenched; ebullient; effervescent; eruptive; excited; exhilarated; explosive; exuberant; fecund; fertile; filled; fired; flourishing; flush; fruitful; full; generous; glutted; gorged; high; impassioned; inflamed; jammed; lavish; lush; luxuriant; manic; moved; overblown; overburdened; overfed; overflowing; overfull; overloaded; overstuffed; packed; plenary; plentiful; popping; populous; pregnant; prodigal; productive; profuse; prolific; rapping; replete; rich; rife; round; rupture; satiated; saturated; seminal; soaked; stimulated; studded; stuffed; superabundant; supersaturated; surfeited; swarming; swollen; tapping; teeming; thick; thrilled; thriving; tingling; volcanic; yeasty


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bursting shell; bursting shells