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growing and flourishing- She is entering the burgeoning field of alternative energy.
- Government debt burgeons in an economic slowdown.
- A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.Homer
- The burgeoning administration
- The burgeoning population
- I Won't Bore You with all the tedious details of the next seven months' the day-to-day grind, belly burgeoning around the life growing inside me.Ellen Hopkins -- Crank
- The competition for resources intensifies, and burgeoning tribes itch to kill each other.Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
- Here, burgeoning manhood was guided and celebrated through a rite of passage.Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore
- She shook her head; under the kerchief it was burgeoning with curlers.Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- As the sphere of light grew, it intensified, like a burgeoning fiend preparing to consume the entire sky.Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
- He felt such a burgeoning fear in his chest that it was hard to breathe.James Dashner -- The Kill Order
- Broken Arrow definitely burgeons, then.Scott Westerfeld -- The Secret Hour
- There was a burgeoning within him of strange feelings and unwonted impulses.Jack London -- White Fang
- La Raza Unida Party, founded in South Texas, became the arm of the movement's burgeoning political campaigns.Luis J. Rodriguez -- Always Running
- Like a Puppy I stay, and for once I stay long enough for the ice dam to melt, warm into an easy flow, burgeoning into a river of need.Ellen Hopkins -- Identical
- The slave population, too, had burgeoned to nearly 700,000 men, women, and children who had no freedom whatever.David McCullough -- John Adams
- I was clever, a burgeoning hero with an Mar like a bar of Ramston steel.Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
- The first was a burgeoning industry of escapism.Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
- I wasn't the only one witnessing the burgeoning prostitution trade along Dixie Highway.John Grogan -- Marley & Me
- On all sides, towering bookcases burgeoned with volumes.Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code