burst out

• “We were finishing our last-call beers on the patio when a college student burst out of the emergency exit, setting off the alarms.”

  Simon & Schuster: CHASING the WHITE DOG

• “It burst out of the tunnel behind them like a runaway train and collected them on the way—hurling them all out into the air, sending them sailing in a high-curving arc ten stories down before they all landed together with simultaneous sandy splashes.”

  Simon & Schuster: Seven Deadly Wonders

• “Mira, whose own face had been carefully set in concerned-sympathetic, burst out laughing too.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Women’s Room

• “The December 2008 tragedy in which a billion gallons of toxic sludge burst out of a holding pond into the rivers, towns, and land of Roane County, Tennessee, is just the latest in a litany of disasters associated with coal mines.133”

  Simon & Schuster: THE STORY OF STUFF

• “Seeing him, the famous smile burst out across Harringtons face.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Italian Summer

• “Then, abruptly, West burst out into open space—and found himself standing on the high aqueduct bridge that spanned the right-hand arm of the Y-junction.”

  Simon & Schuster: Seven Deadly Wonders

• “Before she could say a word she actually saw whatever he was sensing ripple up his arms like a blue-white vibration carried on a beat, then he burst out laughing.”

  Simon & Schuster: Surrender the Dark

• “The birches that grew near the river were thick-set, ancient things whose trunks burst out in warty boles.”

  Simon & Schuster: Wildwood

• “Suddenly the world grew brighttheyd burst out into moonlight!”

  Simon & Schuster: Extras

• “Roger burst out laughing as the guy waved with his non-chain-saw-wielding arm.”

  Simon & Schuster: Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour

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