How to Use burgeon in a Sentence

burgeon

verb
  • The market for collectibles has burgeoned in recent years.
  • Consequently, new companies are emerging to serve the burgeoning market.
    Michael Dobuski, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Ayesha Curry, the wife of Warriors player Stephen Curry, has a burgeoning global lifestyle brand.
    Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 2 Jan. 2020
  • From the outside, the burgeoning farm had the makeup of one that could stand the test of time.
    Eliza Milio, TIME, 16 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • 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 that could give a jolt to an already burgeoning industry.
    Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 15 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • Has the burgeoning interest in tabletop and role-playing changed how indie games get made, pitched, and sold?
    Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The change is due in part to the influx of new out-of-state residents and a burgeoning Latino population.
    Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, azcentral, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Christakis is part of a burgeoning movement to address the issue.
    NBC News, 31 Jan. 2020
  • As her show was nearing its sudden end, Williams shared with the world the details of her divorce and burgeoning mental health crisis.
    Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Puka Nacua is a burgeoning star, a rookie off to a historic start for the Rams in part because of a hamstring injury that sidelined Kupp for the first four games of the season.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2023
  • The launch-and-retrieval vessel is the only one of its kind in the burgeoning space-balloon business to operate on water.
    Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 17 Sep. 2024
  • The event is the latest step for William in his burgeoning international role.
    Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 29 May 2024
  • The Stranger Things actor has become a burgeoning style star at the young age of 15, and this retro move is just another example of her mastery.
    Tanya Edwards, refinery29.com, 21 Jan. 2020
  • The Chiefs have reached their fourth Super Bowl in the past five years, continuing their burgeoning dynasty with Mahomes.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Teachers and lawyers were the tip of the spear of a burgeoning independence movement centered on language.
    Matt Katz, The Atlantic, 29 Feb. 2020
  • The train incident compounded the burgeoning push inside the GOP to reevaluate how much aid to give Kyiv.
    Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Though the scam compounds in Kokang have been closed, new centers continue to crop up all over the region and in burgeoning hotspots, including Dubai.
    Washington Post, 22 July 2024
  • But if companies like Google are forced to spin off large units, there's a burgeoning belief that those newly independent businesses would feel fewer shackles (particularly if regulators effectively forced their creation).
    Dan Primack, Axios, 12 Sep. 2024

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