How to Use outburst in a Sentence

outburst

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  • Then came the big scoring outburst from Philly in the bottom of the eighth.
    — Jamie Barton, CNN, 11 Sep. 2024
  • This was not the only time Brady has had an outburst on the sidelines this year.
    — Jason Hahn, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2022
  • After the first-inning outburst, the Dodgers quickly added to their lead to put the game out of reach.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2022
  • There were no outbursts or any efforts to disrupt the vote.
    — Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 27 May 2023
  • The Warriors have no choice but to take his latest outburst and move on.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2024
  • That outburst started with the big plays from Nixon and Savage.
    — Steve Megargee, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Mya Diaz sparked the outburst with a leadoff home run to left for her first home run.
    — Dan Albano, Orange County Register, 7 May 2024
  • Did Sean’s outburst break your heart, even just a little?
    — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The Orioles’ outburst in the third inning was powered by those changes.
    — Taylor Lyons, Baltimore Sun, 28 July 2024
  • Siakam was coming off a 52-point career-high outburst against the New York Knicks.
    — Robert Fenbers, cleveland, 24 Dec. 2022
  • This outburst is what was first recorded over 2,700 years ago.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The outburst allowed the Terps to relax and play the remainder of the game without too much pressure.
    — Taylor Lyons, Baltimore Sun, 21 Feb. 2023
  • If there is a health issue at the root of this outburst, adding to her distress feels cruel.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The view out the window is of swaths of wildfire smoke and flickering red outbursts.
    — Annie Proulx, The New Yorker, 30 June 2024
  • Massey hit a solo homer to open the seventh and Garcia capped the outburst with a two-run single.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 7 May 2024
  • His nieces and nephews, playing in a room nearby, heard the outbursts.
    — Jay Deitcher, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2024
  • And that was big, considering the offense's three-run outburst in the bottom of the frame.
    — Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 24 July 2022
  • In last week’s, the mom of four broke down in front of her sister Khloé Kardashian over Kanye's outbursts.
    — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 13 July 2023
  • The teams continued the tit-for-tat until Edmonton’s outburst sealed the deal in the third.
    — Stefan Stevenson, Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The scoring outburst cashed plenty of total bases and home run bets.
    — Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2022
  • That final outburst dropped a half-inch of rain at SFO in about a two-hour span early Wednesday.
    — Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Melendez followed with a 421-foot homer to right center to cap the outburst.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 5 Apr. 2024
  • With Grayson, one frustrated outburst could destroy the work of months.
    — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, Orlando Sentinel, 28 July 2024
  • And Iowa State coach Matt Campbell had a heated outburst at one of the officials.
    — Dallas News, 26 Nov. 2022
  • The outburst of Nazi fetishism caught some longtime observers off-guard, even with the rapper’s long history of poke-in-the-eye trolling.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 5 Jan. 2023
  • LeBron’s outburst about his oldest son being ready to join the team now came amid a 10-game stretch in which the Lakers lost eight games.
    — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
  • She is left with a long scar snaking up her ankle, and the persistent remnants of the rage that triggered her outburst.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • The result was an outburst of voter fury at the ballot box in 1978, enacting the worst option of all.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Despite their small size, though, M dwarfs are also prone to violent outbursts in the first few million years of their existence, ejecting monstrous flares that can strip the atmospheres from any planets in their way.
    — John Wenz, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2024
  • An emotional outburst triggered his latent abilities, putting him on par with Jordan seemingly overnight.
    — Andy Swift, TVLine, 14 Oct. 2024

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