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Example sentences for "outburst"

Lexicographically close words:
outbreak; outbreaking; outbreaks; outbuilding; outbuildings; outbursts; outcast; outcaste; outcastes; outcasts
  1. His haggard wildness yielded quite suddenly to an outburst of tears.

  2. I waited in silence for this outburst to pass.

  3. Marillac, suppressing with difficulty a violent outburst of laughter.

  4. So sure was Stuart of victory, Nan's outburst made no impression on his mind.

  5. But how long must we wait for this volcanic outburst of public wrath?

  6. But after an outburst of volubility, quite wasted upon our misunderstanding, he shrugged his shoulders and retreated towards his boat, followed by all who were ready to go with him.

  7. This outburst frightened the old fellow terribly, and, with a feeble remark that he was "only joking," he disappeared below.

  8. One of them was the jolly Suffolker, who had thus falsified all my previous estimates of his amiability; the other was Mick, the long Irishman, at whose outburst nobody was surprised.

  9. Patty nudged her father's arm in glee, as they noted the correct demeanour of their own waitress, and then all such considerations were drowned in the outburst of enthusiasm that accompanied the entrance of the Elliotts.

  10. Frank, as Marian dropped into a chair after her outburst of enthusiasm.

  11. He put the case before her with pitiless logic, more overwhelming than the fiercest outburst of passion.

  12. Frau von Arnim's neck in an outburst of conflicting feeling.

  13. The first, in his vanity, he had deemed an outburst of petulance, instead of an expression of personal dislike, especially as the girl had so suddenly calmed herself, and extended hospitalities.

  14. Luc, the jailer, and chief of the executioners, remained at his post as long as possible; and at the first outburst of the din had called upon his party to fire.

  15. Sometimes he relieved this by an outburst of bitter or satirical self-exposure, when the mood found anybody at hand for his confidences.

  16. To his resolved tone, Florence replied with an outburst of passionate menace: "I will know!

  17. I may here remark that I never resisted any idea of Rossetti's at the moment of its inception, since resistance only led to a temporary outburst of self-assertion on his part.

  18. Mack's outburst sounded incoherent as it poured from his lips but he was greatly up-wrought.

  19. Outside they could hear the tramp and shuffle of feet and occasionally an outcry, but their ears recorded no blare of music or outburst of jostling gaiety.

  20. A fresh outburst of zeal was the result, and the ancient Church soon showed that she had within her unsuspected powers for self-improvement.

  21. Here Eva interrupted the speaker with another outburst of indignation, but he only shrugged his shoulders pityingly, saying: "Gently, child!

  22. Suddenly a great outburst of applause signified that the Senator had concluded.

  23. Presson, interested spectator, looked for the natural outburst of youth at that point.

  24. General Waymouth checked Presson at the first yelp of the outburst with which he had stormed into the room.

  25. But Kanute feared that the enemy would greet his peril with an outburst of delight.

  26. All were heartened with the hope of better things; the guests seemed to dance and the courtiers to leap for joy; the deepest melancholy seemed to be scattered by an outburst of cheerfulness.

  27. There was no straining for effect--no outburst of emotion.

  28. He hoped to provoke an outburst which would bring punishment, if not disgrace.

  29. This time the door close so quietly behind Ruth that Dorothy heard her outburst into tears on the other side of it.

  30. After this frenzied outburst a calmer interval succeeds; in which human instincts as thoughts direct her.

  31. It has saved him from an outburst of Miss Linton's rather tart temper, which, under the circumstances, otherwise he would have caught.

  32. For, after the first violent outburst of grief, young Shenstone, in a few whispered words, makes known to them the particulars of his expedition to Boulogne, with that interview in the house of Major Mahon.

  33. As soon as I could overcome the half-stupor into which his outburst had thrown me I dragged myself to the rear door, intending to barricade it against him.

  34. You will understand my outburst and be more inclined to forgive me when I tell you something of my poor friend's life; for I am certain that he has told you nothing.

  35. What did trouble him was the fact that his correct mind perceived now for the first time that he had chosen an unsuitable moment and place for his outburst of emotion.

  36. And while she was chafing at this new complication which had come to upset the orderly routine of her life there was an outburst of voices in the other office.

  37. A broad-minded girl, the outburst seemed to her a legitimate comment on a matter of public interest.

  38. She hung up the receiver quickly, to cut short a fresh outburst of protest.

  39. Tom, putting aside a little outburst or two of passion, had behaved admirably throughout the whole season of opprobrium; there was no denying it.

  40. He could not restrain his little outburst of pride.

  41. What a boom and what a terrified outburst of yells!

  42. He expected an outburst of surprise and fury, but he was mistaken.

  43. After an outburst they suffer most from a feeling of inward humiliation.

  44. He told it quietly enough; but when he had finished, with a sudden outburst of feeling he turned upon me.

  45. Her voice, thanks to the rest and change of her visit to Switzerland, had regained all its former beauty, and her return to the concert platform was received with an outburst of popular enthusiasm.

  46. This provoked a general outburst of laughter.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outburst" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    access; barrage; belch; blaze; blowout; burst; cascade; convulsion; cyclone; deflagration; discharge; disturbance; ejaculation; ejection; emission; eruption; exclamation; expletive; explosion; expulsion; fit; flare; flash; flurry; frenzy; furore; gale; gush; gust; hurricane; irruption; outbreak; outburst; outcry; outpouring; paroxysm; passion; rapids; riot; roar; round; rush; scene; seizure; spasm; spate; spew; splurge; spout; spurt; squirt; storm; tantrum; temper; tempest; tirade; tornado; torrent; upheaval; uproar; volcano; whirlwind