single burst

Frequency: 6.27.5 per million words

one continuous, short outbreak

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Examples (10)

  • The machine gun fired a single burst of shots, silencing the enemy.
  • A single burst of lightning illuminated the entire valley for a second.
  • With a single burst of energy, she lifted the heavy box onto the shelf.
  • The device sends all its collected data in a single burst once a day.
  • We heard a single burst of laughter from the next room before it fell quiet again.
  • The artist painted the main part of the canvas in a single burst of creativity.
  • He explained the entire complex plan in a single burst of rapid speech.
  • A single burst from this weapon will be enough to disable the target.
  • The experiment detected a single burst of radiation from the distant star.
  • The algorithm processes the input in a single burst rather than line by line.