Erupt

//ɪˈɹʌpt//

"Erupt" in a Sentence (16 examples)

The volcano may erupt at any moment.

Tom looked like a volcano about to erupt.

Mary looked like a volcano about to erupt.

Extinct volcanoes will likely never erupt again.

The mid-ocean ridge consists of thousands of individual volcanoes or volcanic ridge segments which periodically erupt.

The four years of battles in trenches was intended – as the British and Americans idealistically insisted – to be the “war to end all wars.” But little more than 20 years later global conflict would again erupt with casualties on an unprecedented scale.

I'd like to see a volcano erupt.

This made the class erupt in laughter.

Ziri's comment made Rima erupt in laughter.

Felix heard other strange noises starting to erupt from the darkness.

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The volcano erupted, spewing lava across a wide area.

The third molar tooth erupts late in most people, and sometimes does not appear at all.

The crowd erupted in anger.

And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside.

Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.

After particularly good seasons, flocks "erupt" from their breeding grounds and appear in reed beds where they have not been seen for years, if ever.

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