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Example sentences for "sudden burst"

  • With a sudden burst of speed the Messerschmitts scattered.

  • Then came a sudden burst of sound that all but startled him into a tail spin.

  • And then the silence of the countryside was torn by a sudden burst of sound that made the very hills tremble.

  • When the Elder Brother began to read the first words relating to love and marriage in the Book of Rules, she turned deadly pale; and rose up in her place with a sudden burst of courage or desperation--I don't know which.

  • And you did ask me some very strange questions," she added, with a sudden burst of self-assertion.

  • Mrs. Farnaby interposed, with a sudden burst of fury.

  • Hosy," with a sudden burst of exuberance, "hold on to me tight.

  • She did not resent my sudden burst of temper and impatience.

  • Hosy," with a sudden burst of confidence, "it's a good thing I saw that Lord Erskine first.

  • The waiter, bald and correctly vacant of expression, arrived after a discreet knock, and with the swinging of the door came a sudden burst of laughter from an arriving party.

  • But now, at a time when he would most appreciate it, God was about to reveal to him a truth that would be a rich source of help and comfort through life, and a sudden burst of sunshine upon his dark way at the present hour.

  • Then with a sudden burst of tenderness he added: "Good-by, darling mother.

  • The plough is rather different from that of Germany.

  • Florian cried, clapping his hand to his head in a sudden burst of pretended recollection.

  • She pushed him back with a sudden burst of explosive energy.

  • He had expected a triumph, a sudden burst of wild applause; he received instead a faint clap of the hands from Ethel and Eva, and an encouraging nod from the mercantile gentleman of nonconformist exterior.

  • A sudden burst of anger or passion; an angry dispute.

  • A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration.

  • A sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar; a quarrel.

  • In the midst of her proud triumph, she had forgotten to pay various debts contracted before her sudden burst of luck.

  • The various scenes of the duel passed through his mind: a vision of himself kissing the officer's hand, in a sudden burst of unexplainable humility, which kept returning to torment him like remorse.

  • He had met hundreds of women of the sort that cause a sudden burst of mute desire as they pass.

  • He smiled in the same flashing way, like a sudden burst of sunlight from behind a cloud.

  • Andy made up his mind in a sudden burst of courage to fight for his life.

  • The fire of hate that had flamed in her greenish eyes was not a sudden burst of anger, it had been smoldering there for years, eating its way into the fiber of her being.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sudden burst" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    chiefly applied; common saying; each side; evidence that; general agent; large sheet; necessary evil; ping rebellion; sudden change; sudden changes; sudden death; sudden flash; sudden gust; sudden halt; sudden impulse; sudden movement; sudden onset; sudden sense; sudden spring; sudden start; sudden stop; sudden thought; suddenly came; swear allegiance; whether true; while standing