to suddenly start burning with large flames
to suddenly start doing something
to suddenly start working or becoming active
And the drunken company burst into laughter to see him hurt.
Banks of electronic equipment burst into life.
But the powder suddenly burst into flames, leaving 202 people seriously burned and injured.
He and the passengers burst into nonplussed laughter.
He bursts into laughter again, as if acknowledging the absurdity of such situations.
His efforts finally appear to be producing results when the family car's engine suddenly bursts into life.
I knew that something was different when the comrades suddenly burst into wild spontaneous applause.
I was getting ready to leave but suddenly his girlfriend burst into tears.
It came in an incredible closing few minutes of a game that suddenly burst into life with equal measures of drama and controversy.
It would be only four years before the broadcasting of radio programmes swept across America like a smouldering fire that had suddenly burst into flame.
Neither of us heard my boyfriend coming downstairs until he suddenly burst into the kitchen.
She pauses before bursting into laughter.
She then bursts into laughter when she sees my underwhelmed face.
Terri keeps bursting into tears (=starting to cry) for no reason.
The audience burst into wild applause.
The jury is still out on the notion that people can, without warning, suddenly burst into flames.
Their helicopter burst into flames after hitting a power line.
Then at the oddest moments he would suddenly burst into uncontrollable sobbing that would last for hours.
Then his mouth curls and he bursts into laughter.
Then she bursts into infectious laughter.
They would just be chatting and suddenly burst into giggles.
We all burst into laughter.
bursts into
bursting into
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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