erupted

past tense of erupt

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of erupted Most of the crowd, which numbered around 25,000, was rooting for Argentina and erupted when Lo Celso’s shot hit the back of the net. Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 11 Oct. 2025 Moments after the rescue, a small explosion erupted on camera. Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025 But at the end of the third quarter, a brawl between fans erupted two rows behind him and one of those fans was pushed into his lap. Ed Lavandera, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025 The crowd of 47,025 erupted for the 5-foot-8 Rivas, a switch-hitting everyman celebrating his 28th birthday in style. Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025 No sooner had Explorer won that conflict than a new war for marketshare erupted between Explorer, Mozilla’s Firefox, and Google Chrome. Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025 The Hustle Last month, Walton watched as a courtroom erupted in tears. Katherine Laidlaw, HubSpot, 10 Oct. 2025 Nepal’s Prime Minister, Sharma Oli, resigned from his position after the anti-corruption protests erupted across the country, leaving at least 72 people dead and hundreds wounded, most of them in the capital of Kathmandu. Connor Greene, Time, 2 Oct. 2025 Explosion fills night sky in Los Angeles Firefighters were battling a blaze at a Chevron refinery in Southern California late on Thursday, company and government officials said, after a massive fireball erupted at the facility. Vanessa Navarrete, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for erupted
Verb
  • He was also ejected from a game in November against the Packers for targeting and fined $20,256 for flipping off opposing fans.
    Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Branch was ejected in a game against Green Bay in 2024 for a helmet-to-helmet hit on running back Bo Melton.
    Jordan Sigler, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Another prototype recently exploded during ground testing.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The post went viral, and Allan's inbox exploded with stories from women all across the country and the world.
    Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Then, just like a conventional chemical rocket, this propellant is transformed into a hot gas and expelled out of a nozzle, blasting the rocket forward.
    Big Think, Big Think, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Qudwa left the West Bank in 2021 after he was expelled from Fatah, the movement founded by his uncle, over his decision to field his own list in elections, defying Abbas who cancelled the vote.
    Tom Perry, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Mulroney, Ackerman, Snow, and Newman turn this story of spatting WAGS into an explosive, addictive watch.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Preparation has cultural and regional variations, but the seed is usually chewed with slaked lime and betel leaves, and chewing releases a red juice that's often then spat out.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • This means that even the false signals generated by the aircraft would not be able to match the properties of the photons emitted by quantum radars.
    Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Effects on the human body The nuclear radiation emitted when radium and other elements decay can damage the cells in the human body.
    Kelling Donald, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The nearby fire department rushed by boat to the crash site and were assisted by a private tug boat that helped douse the fire that belched black smoke from the barge, said Alton Deputy Fire Chief Matt Fischer.
    Jesse Bedayn, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • But the ocean spits her back out.
    Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
  • However, the Eagles still managed to hold the Dallas Cowboys to 20 points in their regular-season opening victory, a game Carter missed after being disqualified for spitting on quarterback Dak Prescott.
    Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Early Sunday on the same sparsely populated peninsula, the Krasheninnikov volcano spewed white ash clouds into the sky for the first time in hundreds of years.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The government ignored Hamilton’s warning, and for 50 years lead spewed from every car’s tailpipe, contaminating the air, soil, and bodies of generations.
    Tom Frieden, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Erupted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/erupted. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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