Example Sentences

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With all its starts and stops, twists and turns, reaches and lunges, pickleball is busting the Medicare bank, with a few hundred million dollars’ worth of injuries each year.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2026

“Global heating is busting budgets, ballooning food prices, upending energy markets, and feeding a cost-of-living crisis. Climate action can flip the switch.”

From Washington Times • Dec. 1, 2023

Instead, the economy is busting right now for job seekers, he said.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2021

With Election Day a little more than two weeks away, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe is busting out the big names to try to boost voter turnout — particularly among African Americans.

From Washington Post • Oct. 17, 2021

I got a hunch that whoever's broadcastin' is busting transmitters right an' left.

From The Machine That Saved The World by Leinster, Murray