Sample sentences for BURGEONING

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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

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