Safe could Antenor pass th' Illyrian shore / through Danaan hosts, and realms Liburnian gain, / and climb Timavus and her springs explore, / where through nine mouths, with roaring surge, the main / bursts from the sounding rocks and deluges the plain."

Tom has periods of debilitating depression followed by bursts of manic activity.

Gamma-ray bursts are the most powerful explosions in the cosmos.

Happiness rises like a bubble, but soon bursts and falls.

There are several current theories about the possible causes of gamma-ray bursts.

Called fast radio bursts (FRBs), these extraordinary events generate as much energy in a thousandth of a second as the Sun does in a year.

As when in mighty multitudes bursts out / sedition, and the wrathful rabble rave; / rage finds them arms; stones, firebrands fly about.

So when the foaming river, uncontrolled, / bursts through its banks and riots on the plain, / o'er dyke and dam the gathering deluge rolled, / from field to field sweeps on with cattle, flock and fold.

Yanni's violent bursts are forecasting doom.

What if the hot-water bottle bursts?