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Example sentences for "outbreak"

Lexicographically close words:
outangs; outbid; outbidding; outboard; outbound; outbreaking; outbreaks; outbuilding; outbuildings; outburst
  1. The next in importance of the great health agencies is Fresh Air.

  2. Such editing of secular Chinese works, however, was discontinued for three-quarters of a century, and was not resumed until 1322, only ten years before the outbreak of the long civil war.

  3. Already in the period preceding the outbreak of the Civil War the English drama had perceptibly sunk from the height to which it had been raised by the great Elizabethans.

  4. Having no known relation to the preceding is epidemic dropsy, the first recorded outbreak of which occurred in Calcutta in the year 1877.

  5. At the end of 1902 an outbreak occurred in the Barisal gaol, Bengal, in which nearly one-third of the cases ended fatally.

  6. Latin and English plays continued to be brought out in Cambridge till the year of the outbreak of the Civil War, T.

  7. Whether she was terrified at the idea that he was right in his conjecture, or at this outbreak of passion in the man who was usually so calm and collected, was undecided, for the next moment a slight sound was heard at the door.

  8. Accustomed to give way to every outbreak of feeling, she sank down on the sofa and burst into a violent fit of weeping.

  9. The 7th Middlesex is one of the two Imperial Service Battalions of the Territorial Force which existed at the outbreak of war.

  10. The health of the division was good except for an outbreak of measles in the 169th Brigade.

  11. She put away the thought as a strange outbreak of injustice.

  12. The most difficult matter had been to establish tolerably satisfactory relations with the adjacent village; but Anton's calm decision had at all events prevented any outbreak of opposition.

  13. In this manner the dwellers on the baron's estate daily awaited the outbreak of the insurrection on their own oasis.

  14. A crisp outbreak rends the darkness; branches, bullet-shattered, fall to the earth.

  15. Between each outbreak of the tempest, the two men to the right of me labour feverishly to dig a niche for themselves in the trench side.

  16. Penck was one of the foreign guests at the Australian meeting of the British Association, and was in Australia at the outbreak of war.

  17. Geikie’s retirement from the Chair at Edinburgh, and it was there that they got the news of the outbreak of war.

  18. Very many years later, after his retirement, James Geikie’s friends again urged his claims to the title, but the matter was dropped at the outbreak of the war, and death came not long after.

  19. The outbreak of the Russian war was the signal for another attempt to obtain the independence of which Abdurahim had robbed them.

  20. Previous to the Christian outbreak the best of these, grown in the district of Trebigné, sold for about 11d.

  21. I have spoken of the resemblance between this outbreak of cholera and the Great Plague of London.

  22. It is not wonderful that this great outbreak of national indignation did almost as much harm as good.

  23. I saw at once that if Morley did not come it would not only lessen the effect of the meeting, but would lead to a fresh outbreak of what I may call the Forster dissensions in the party.

  24. The pacifist hope was that the outbreak of a European war, which was recognised as quite possible, might be delayed until, with the progress of pacifist doctrine, war became impossible.

  25. Germany's population, which, at the outbreak of war, was nearly seventy millions, was in 1870 a good deal less than the present population of Great Britain.

  26. Hence the outbreak of strife, signalled by furious shrill voices, audible to Beatrice and Fanny as they sat in the room beneath.

  27. The feeble anaemic creature fell back before this outbreak of wholesome wrath; her eyes stared in alarm.

  28. The disclosure was made, and had resulted in no outbreak of fury; now he could begin to plead his cause.

  29. At the outbreak of the Revolution he served fifteen months as a Continental soldier, and when Crawford started against the Sandusky Indians, he went along as a scout.

  30. It was created partly, as it would seem, by drafts from one of the London trained bands in 1664, at the outbreak of the second Dutch war, and was disbanded at the Revolution.

  31. In 1672, when the news of the outbreak of the war reached the settlement at the Cape, an expedition was at once despatched against St. Helena.

  32. The news of this encounter provoked an outbreak of popular feeling in London.

  33. Clarendon's memoirs of his own administration tell the history of the outbreak of the war from the English side, while M.

  34. The outbreak of the war with Holland entirely broke up the usual arrangement.

  35. The outbreak of the third war with Holland in 1672 employed the whole naval force of the English Government.

  36. Pontalis' Jean de Witt gives a luminous account of the political and military condition of Holland at the time of the outbreak of the war with England.

  37. He felt he should never reach the end of their cruel journey without some outbreak that would bring down on him the utmost severity of the guard.

  38. So perished the first and last submarine to sink a hostile warship, before the outbreak of the present war.

  39. Controllable torpedoes of this type were abandoned before the outbreak of the present war and will probably never be used in action.

  40. The activity of the British submarines in the North Sea at the outbreak of the war has already been referred to, and a year later they found another opportunity in the Baltic.

  41. At the outbreak of the war, Germany had between twenty and twenty-five submarines in commission and a dozen or so under construction.

  42. The Only Submarine to sink a Hostile Warship before the Outbreak of the Present War.

  43. Her reputation as a painter of the great ladies and gentlemen of nobility, and her entertainments, naturally associated her with the nobility; hence, she shared their unpopularity at the outbreak of the Revolution and left France.

  44. At the outbreak of the Revolution, she was living at Luciennes in great luxury on the fortune left her by the duke.

  45. These old familiar laws have been brought forward again by the outbreak of the Great War.

  46. After this violent outbreak of the people's wrath, it was now hoped that no interdict would ever be carried into effect in Denmark.

  47. During the years immediately preceding the outbreak of the Revolution, almost all people were utterly in the dark as to what their future conduct should be.

  48. In fact, New York's position was somewhat like that of Kentucky at the outbreak of the Civil War.

  49. He also did what he could for the French officers who had served in America during the War of Independence, most of whom were forced to flee from France after the outbreak of the Revolution.

  50. Certainly there never would have been such an outbreak as that which recently shook the foundations of this empire.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outbreak" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alpha; attack; belch; blaze; burst; cascade; commencement; convulsion; creation; cyclone; dawn; edge; epidemic; eruption; establishment; explosion; fit; flash; foundation; gale; gush; gust; hurricane; institution; irruption; mutiny; oncoming; onset; opening; origin; origination; outbreak; outburst; outset; paroxysm; passion; placid; rapids; rash; rebellion; revolt; revolution; riot; rising; rush; seizure; spasm; spate; spew; spurt; start; storm; takeoff; tempest; tornado; torrent; trouble; upheaval; uprising; volcano; volley; whirlwind