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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
irrupt .
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Examples
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… Beeeeeeeeeeeeeee … And another soul irrupts into the afterlife.
Saints on Percocet 2010
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… Beeeeeeeeeeeeeee … And another soul irrupts into the afterlife.
Saints on Percocet 2010
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… Beeeeeeeeeeeeeee … And another soul irrupts into the afterlife.
Saints on Percocet 2010
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The crowd irrupts in a venomous chorus of boos as Madoff is escorted up to the stage and is strapped into a chair.
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Yet wherever the ideal principle actually works its effects to a high degree [...] it generates a turbid, wild enthusiasm that irrupts in self-mutilation oras with the priests of the Phrygian goddess [i.e. Cybele] self-emasculation [da erzeugt es einen trüben und wilden Enthusiasmus, der in Selbstzerfleischung, oder, wie bei den Priestern der phrygischen Göttin (i.e. Kybele), in Selbstentmannung ausbricht].
Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy 2000
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Oona plays Fabiana, a Brazilian cage dancer who irrupts into the lives of the central characters with cataclysmic consequences.
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When this One irrupts into the field of the Other, namely, at the level of the body, the body breaks into fragments.
Springhero's Weblog springhero 2010
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We kept a wary eye for a black-backed woodpecker, an uncommon bird that irrupts into burned areas, but saw only flickers.
NYT > Travel By GUSTAVE AXELSON 2009
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Almost always barely audible ... though very occasionally it irrupts into a dissonant, heart-stopping din. "
American Thinker 2010
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