How to Use gangbuster in a Sentence

gangbuster

noun
  • These stocks have gone gangbusters this year.
    — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The gangbuster ending flings a pile of spinning plates in the air.
    — Carolyn Kellogg, Houston Chronicle, 28 June 2019
  • The third season was going gangbusters in the writing room.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 15 Aug. 2025
  • That is not going to be a sign that the economy is doing gangbusters.
    — Fox News, 3 July 2018
  • So, of course, markets went gangbusters as stocks went on a tear and, spurred on by falling yields, bonds were up big as well.
    — Ben Carlson, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Keep up the tempo with a gangbuster of bold holiday herbs and spices to ramp up both sweets and savories.
    — Catharine Kaufman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Goldman's coming on like gangbusters around the corner.
    — Robbie Owens, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • There is no silver bullet here that will make the biosimilar market go gangbusters.
    — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Cutesy toys are going gangbusters among Japanese adults.
    — J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 28 May 2026
  • No wonder the Future tour is moving tickets like gangbusters.
    — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 13 June 2017
  • Development in the two cities is going gangbusters.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
  • And like Amazon, this company has been growing like gangbusters!
    — Eric Bleeker, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2018
  • And like Amazon, this company has been growing like gangbusters!
    — Eric Bleeker, USA TODAY, 14 May 2018
  • And like Amazon, this company has been growing like gangbusters!
    — Nate Wallingsford, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The stockmarket is going gangbusters, rising by 19% so far this year.
    — The Economist, 11 July 2019
  • In an economy going gangbusters, record stock market?
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Online outreach, which he was seen as starting at a disadvantage, has been gangbusters.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 21 June 2019
  • Uber says Freight has been going gangbusters, doubling its number of loads every quarter.
    — Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 June 2018
  • The film played like gangbusters in Directors’ Fortnight.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 22 May 2026
  • The unconventional thriller played like gangbusters to the buzzing New York crowd.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
  • In 1986 or so, somewhere out West, Reagan gave a speech that went like gangbusters.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Stray Kids, however, are going gangbusters.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Thanks to Oregon’s gangbusters economy, the state brought in more taxes than expected.
    — OregonLive.com, 23 Aug. 2017
  • New York — Gold is having a gangbusters year — and that’s typically a red flag about the state of affairs in the world.
    — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
  • There are many films that fail in North America but do gangbuster business in major foreign markets.
    — Tatiana Siegel, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2019
  • The animatronic horror with a slight bend towards kids arrives in the long shadow cast by the first film's gangbusters debut.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Nov. 2025
  • New bank lending has been growing gangbusters this year, raising the risk that China will face a painful day of reckoning further down the road.
    — Neil Gough, New York Times, 14 July 2016
  • As Hades, Julius Thomas III makes a gangbusters first appearance.
    — David Lyman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 27 Sep. 2025
  • That’s the fundamental story here, which is that this economy is growing gangbusters and the market remains in denial.
    — Fortune, 28 June 2018
  • His campaign started off like gangbusters in August, attracting huge crowds and millions in donations.
    — Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026

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