bust
Example Sentences
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The bust was too heavy to move, one of the owners said, so they obscured it instead with a large Ukrainian flag.
Talarico-like candidates are busting out across the U.S., if few in his seminarian mold.
In both the 2008-09 financial crisis and the years of dot-com boom and bust, major rotations could be followed by large gains or losses.
British Gas customers increased to 7.5 million in the UK, after absorbing the customer base of Rebel Energy and Tomato Energy when those energy providers went bust.
From BBC
“I don’t quite understand the need for all this secrecy. Don’t law enforcement agencies usually want to publicize big arrests? Aren’t smuggling busts public information?”
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
