burst out
phrasal verb
burst out also bursted out; bursting out; bursts out
1
: to begin (doing something) suddenly
They both burst out laughing.
2
: to say (something) suddenly
Everyone burst out "Surprise!" as he walked through the door.
Examples of burst out in a Sentence
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Biden has been dogged by the Israel-Hamas war and disgruntlement over U.S. support for Israel's military, bursting out into the open in protests on college campuses across the country.
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Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 14 May 2024
The festival is experiential learning, its cultural reparations and creative innovation bursting out of Indianapolis.
—Njera Perkins, Peoplemag, 13 May 2024
Co-hitting coach Ryan Fuller said the hope is that that hit will open the floodgates for Hays to burst out of his slump.
—Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 15 Apr. 2024
Dressed casually in a white tank and red track pants, Cabello, still rocking blond locks, burst out in song while sitting in a chair.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
When the lights went down, Roy Wood, Jr., the evening’s m.c., introduced Lakshmi, who burst out from behind a side curtain.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2024
As generations of viruses burst out of old cells and infect new ones, cheaters ought to get more and more common.
—Quanta Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024
Lauren Gilhooly Coronado | Girls track and field Running in the seeded section of the girls 100 at the Arcadia Invitational, the junior burst out of the blocks to win with a legal wind.
—Steve Brand, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2024
Some people fell to the ground and burst out crying, multiple survivors said.
—Gal Koplewitz Natan Odenheimer, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 14 May 2024
The festival is experiential learning, its cultural reparations and creative innovation bursting out of Indianapolis.
—Njera Perkins, Peoplemag, 13 May 2024
Co-hitting coach Ryan Fuller said the hope is that that hit will open the floodgates for Hays to burst out of his slump.
—Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 15 Apr. 2024
Dressed casually in a white tank and red track pants, Cabello, still rocking blond locks, burst out in song while sitting in a chair.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
When the lights went down, Roy Wood, Jr., the evening’s m.c., introduced Lakshmi, who burst out from behind a side curtain.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2024
As generations of viruses burst out of old cells and infect new ones, cheaters ought to get more and more common.
—Quanta Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024
Lauren Gilhooly Coronado | Girls track and field Running in the seeded section of the girls 100 at the Arcadia Invitational, the junior burst out of the blocks to win with a legal wind.
—Steve Brand, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2024
Some people fell to the ground and burst out crying, multiple survivors said.
—Gal Koplewitz Natan Odenheimer, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
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“Burst out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/burst%20out. Accessed 27 May. 2024.
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