growth spurt

noun

: an occurrence of growing quickly and suddenly in a short period of time

When he was 11 he had a growth spurt.

Examples of growth spurt in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The growth spurt of news and politics podcasts isn’t a surprise. — Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026

Vik Chile, one of Travel + Leisure’s best resorts in South America, has been on quite the growth spurt recently. — Mark Johansen, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2026

Pruitt was actively editing during Wikipedia’s first major growth spurt. — Carson Griffith, New Yorker, 30 July 2026

This week offers you a mini growth spurt or glow up of sorts, culminating in a Venus-Uranus trine on August 11 that may delight you with an unexpectedly good time in a foreign land or philosophy seminar. — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 July 2026

Rhymes for growth spurt

• alert
• assert
• avert
• dessert
• divert
• evert
• exert
• inert
• insert
• invert
• nightshirt
• overt