How to Use burst out in a Sentence

burst out

verb
  • Both my parents burst out in tears.
    — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The room burst out in laughter.
    — Mike Defabo, New York Times, 1 June 2026
  • The place burst out laughing, and Al just shut the door.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The Iron Man star then burst out laughing.
    — Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 20 May 2026
  • The idea must want to burst out of me in order for the writing to begin.
    — Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
  • The jet bursts out through the clouds of the nebula and extends light-years into space.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Churchgoers gasped and glanced at their neighbors; some burst out laughing.
    — Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, The Atlantic, 31 May 2026
  • Hand on face, tears about to burst, el corazón a punto de salirse del pecho (with his heart about to burst out of his chest).
    — Sucio Smash, VIBE.com, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The crowd burst out into a wild celebration.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Park said, noting her wardrobe malfunction and bursting out laughing.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Dec. 2025
  • After the screening, the audience burst out in applause, which is rare in Spain.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 19 Mar. 2026
  • When his star player scored a goal and pointed to his wife and baby out in the stands, Petzold burst out laughing.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Michalle arrived home from work, appraised the situation, and burst out laughing.
    — Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • The historical landmark was on fire for hours, with locals gawking as orange flames burst out of its steeple.
    — Amethyst Martinez, USA Today, 25 June 2026
  • Afterwards, Briney burst out laughing.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Nov. 2025
  • This heating prompted volatile gases close to the surface to expand and burst out in jets, carrying comet dust with them.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Moura fills the frame and bursts from it just as his character bursts out of his immediate milieu into history.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Tucci appeared to be in agreement with Streep, while their costar Emily Blunt burst out laughing.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 29 Apr. 2026
  • When Luna conjoins intense Pluto, our feelings about such shifts might burst out in unpleasant ways!
    — Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The commotion awakened the victim’s mother, who rushed in, causing the suspect to burst out of the home and flee, authorities said.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • After bursting out of the middle of a snowman, Dusty steps down into the audience to do a little of her famous off-color crowd work.
    — Merrill Markoe, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2026
  • My limbs stilled and grew heavy in the heat, but Alice jiggled her knees up and down, bursting out with short spurts of conversation that weighed against the beauty of our silence.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
  • DiZoglio, who is known to burst out into song on occasion, didn’t miss the opportunity on Sunday.
    — Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Netflix was first to burst out in the early 2010s, its appeal broadened by the inclusion of star-power and big-budget original shows and movies.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The American burst out of the start in Sunday’s final but caught a gate with her right arm after just 13 seconds, sending her tumbling down the slope to a halt.
    — Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 9 Feb. 2026
  • And then, following Labour’s appalling performance in local elections held in May, a leadership contest burst out into the open.
    — Anand Menon, Time, 13 June 2026
  • Hudson cradled her baby bump while mom Goldie burst out laughing during a brainstorming session at the actress's Fabletics office.
    — Sophie Dodd, PEOPLE, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Even the overdone Netflix framing device of the series starting with a death that might have been a murder, might have been something else, can’t tamp down the energy bursting out of these performances.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 May 2026
  • After weeks of scratching and clawing just to get a handful of runs across the plate, the Red Sox burst out of the gate Friday with one of their most productive offensive innings in ages.
    — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 23 May 2026
  • The five members burst out of a giant pink teddy bear, and even their costumes were festooned with tiny bear faces, like the Grateful Dead’s mascot had suddenly infiltrated the world of girl groups.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 26 May 2026

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