How to Use burgeon in a Sentence

burgeon

verb
  • The market for collectibles has burgeoned in recent years.
  • With the serum delivered, Welch was able to bring burgeoning epidemic under control.
    David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Jan. 2025
  • The immigration courts have been overwhelmed for years with a burgeoning load that is now approaching 1 million cases.
    Tal Kopan, SFChronicle.com, 3 July 2019
  • The team was aided in this demolition job by a suite of tools from the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The study's authors suggest that on top of favorable tax laws, the city's burgeoning tech scene is another factor driving young people to the region.
    Dallas News, 19 July 2019
  • Miller felt tremendously inspired by Chicago’s burgeoning younger music scene after college.
    Britt Julious, chicagotribune.com, 18 July 2019
  • But now, with the burgeoning combination of ideas from some of these disparate disciplines, researchers are starting to get a firmer handle on the planet-making process.
    Quanta Magazine, 16 July 2019
  • Hopper and Joyce are obviously back too, along with Steve's excellent hair and his burgeoning friendship with Dustin.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 3 July 2019
  • Part of the reason for Microsoft’s resurgence is its burgeoning, and seemingly stable, cloud-services business.
    Mike Murphy, Quartz, 18 July 2019
  • The new building comes at a time when UHV-Katy is seeing burgeoning enrollment increases.
    Roy Kent, Houston Chronicle, 5 July 2019
  • With each show, the energy only intensified, keeping the momentum strong and setting the stage for fashion’s burgeoning and seasoned talent.
    Mecca Pryor, Essence, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The singer, songwriter and burgeoning model posed for photos upon her arrival at the event, standing alongside musician Joan Jett.
    Julia Teti, WWD, 4 Feb. 2025
  • From the outside, the burgeoning farm had the makeup of one that could stand the test of time.
    Eliza Milio, TIME, 16 Apr. 2024
  • But this is a burgeoning trend in the NBA, being followed by a half-dozen teams around the league, with more to come.
    Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Weaver helped burgeon the Scottsdale Bella Vista Prep girls hoops in 2018.
    Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 1 June 2021
  • That said, the city of Chihuahua is worth a visit on its own for the warmth of its people and the burgeoning culinary and nightlife scenes.
    Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 11 Feb. 2024
  • An even more spacious spot is set to open in the burgeoning Restaurant Row in Boca Raton in the fall.
    Greg Carannante, Sun Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
  • As a burgeoning actor, Chris Pine had his sights set high.
    Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Find out what happens when the mask and the wig come off and their burgeoning romance puts them under the spotlight.
    Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2024
  • Late night fun: Chart a pub crawl through downtown Mesa's burgeoning bar scene.
    Jessica Boehm, Axios, 29 July 2024
  • Yet, the idea that soaring debt and burgeoning deficits have finally caught up with the U.S. is ill-founded.
    Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Why has a burgeoning TV star teamed up with a strange internet game?
    Callum Booth, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
  • By the late Sixties, burgeoning sales of light trucks and big vans dropped the wagon's market share to below 10 percent.
    Frank Markus, Car and Driver, 31 Aug. 2023
  • His dream was to move to Portugal, a burgeoning crypto tax haven.
    Ben McKenzie, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2023
  • For the time being, as everyone finds their footing in this burgeoning era, that'll do.
    Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 5 May 2023
  • And the lands around the parks are burgeoning with growth, due in large part to their beauty and the accessibility of recreation.
    Nick Mott, Outside Online, 3 Oct. 2019
  • And that could give a jolt to an already burgeoning industry.
    Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Taylor took jobs at fast-food joints to support her daughter, a burgeoning artist.
    Jessica Contrera, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2019
  • The burgeoning controversy is not the first in Musk’s relationship with the ADL.
    Will Oremus, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
  • While locals might need to put their waterfront walks on pause, the burgeoning bloom is also poised to cause a major halt in tourism.
    Kelsey Mulvey, House Beautiful, 15 Mar. 2023

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