How to Use burgeoning in a Sentence

burgeoning

adjective
  • The burgeoning costs of hosting the games had forced all but those two cities to withdraw their bids.
    Alan Murray, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2017
  • That came at a time when UFC was still a burgeoning sports franchise.
    Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2019
  • What would be most useful to scholars in the burgeoning field?
    Jacob Brogan, Slate Magazine, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Bot-spotting is one of the biggest challenges in the burgeoning field.
    Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 13 Sep. 2017
  • And there are signs that their burgeoning business could grow.
    Ryan Gillespie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • In short, transiting worlds have proved to be the keystones in the burgeoning search for Earth’s cosmic twins.
    Lee Billings, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Cornell is hardly the only school to take notice of the burgeoning field.
    Michelle Cheng, Quartz at Work, 1 Aug. 2019
  • There are billions of dollars at stake in the burgeoning business.
    Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2018
  • And given just how well the Knights are playing, a trip to the Cup Final could make a burgeoning Vegas market thrive even more.
    Jeremy Fuchs, SI.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Pyongyang is now home to a mini-construction boom, as well as a burgeoning middle class and the cafes to serve them.
    Bloomberg.com, 23 May 2018
  • For those of you who’d rather not be an ingredient in the burgeoning data market, that’d be a start.
    David Muller, Car and Driver, 14 Feb. 2018
  • In Atlanta, her role in the burgeoning civil rights movement grew.
    Jason Miller, The Conversation, 24 June 2019
  • Those fans missed the Warriors close the game on a 13-0 run, a rally that, even in garbage time, added to a young team’s burgeoning reputation of resilience.
    Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Combined, the figures signal there aren't enough homes on the market at prices low enough to meet burgeoning demand.
    Rachel Layne, CBS News, 27 Dec. 2019
  • In fact, my gut instinct on this point is the subject of a burgeoning field, called fetal origins research.
    Sarah Kowalski, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Pence The key member of the council will be its chairman, Pence, who has shown a burgeoning interest in space matters.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 30 June 2017
  • The deployment was a response to the burgeoning threat of Islamist radicalism in the area.
    Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Oct. 2017
  • The dollar’s descent is not so much a judgment on America’s fitness as a sign of the burgeoning health of other places.
    The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
  • The burgeoning #MeToo movement made investors wary of any hint of misconduct.
    Yoree Koh, WSJ, 15 Feb. 2019
  • The real purpose of the mining is to learn about the burgeoning cryptocurrency market.
    Polina Marinova, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Doha—the burgeoning capital of Qatar, the teeny peninsular Arab country in the Persian Gulf—is ready for its close-up.
    Jenna Scatena, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 June 2019
  • Aubameyang gave up a chance for a hat-trick in the Gunners' 3-0 win over Stoke at the start of April in order to allow Lacazette take the penalty and the pair seem to be forming a burgeoning relationship on the pitch.
    SI.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Calorie restriction is one of the least ridiculous strategies in the burgeoning field of longevity science.
    Megan Molteni, WIRED, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Each series boasts a buzzy cast of familiar and burgeoning talent.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 28 Oct. 2019
  • The next day everyone flew back to Heathrow on separate flights, clutching gallon jugs of olive oil from the estate and nursing burgeoning grudges.
    Janine Di Giovanni, Town & Country, 25 Feb. 2019
  • By 2016, the year sales of bottled water in the United States officially surpassed soft drinks, the world had awakened to the burgeoning crisis of plastic waste.
    Laura Parker, National Geographic, 23 Aug. 2019
  • The company appears to be positioning itself to stay at the forefront of a burgeoning field.
    Marc Ferranti, PCWorld, 9 May 2017
  • He was known as a driving force in the burgeoning Nation of Islam religious movement before his death.
    Stephanie Toone, ajc, 21 Feb. 2020
  • However, even fish farms are struggling to keep up with burgeoning demand.
    Paul Takahashi, Houston Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2018
  • None of this is to say that the luxury powerhouses shouldn’t get into the burgeoning resale market themselves.
    Sarah Halzack and Andrea Felsted | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2019

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