Example Sentences

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Human population will, inevitably, grow by a further 2 billion people by 2050, cities will burgeon and developing countries will be stretched to their limits.

From The Guardian • Dec. 23, 2016

In 2012 free online teaching resources will burgeon.

From Forbes • Dec. 13, 2011

The trend to the suburbs will continue during the decade; rural non-farm population will burgeon by more than one-third, to 43 million.

From Time Magazine Archive

New dormitories are arising, where a year from this autumn the first fruit of the administration of President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin will burgeon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Speak you for me; my budding thoughts, grown strong, One after one will burgeon into song, Like lilies in the bosom of the stream.

From Love's Comedy by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)