Synonym: disturbance, eruption, outburst, rebellion, revolt, riot, torrent, uprising. Similar words: break, break up, break out, break in, break off, breakdown, break down, break away. Meaning: n. a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition).
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91. The outbreak was eventually traced to a new strain of E. coli on hamburger meat.
92. Doctors are very concerned about an outbreak of tuberculosis in an East London School.
93. Loyalist paramilitaries yesterday threatened a new outbreak of bloodshed in republican areas of Northern Ireland.
94. It was 1939, just before the outbreak of the Second World War(sentencedict.com/outbreak.html), and they had not long been married.
95. This has eliminated the fly problem, and is the strategy that would be used immediately if a fly outbreak occurred again.
96. On the outbreak of the civil war the navy rallied to Parliament, which made Warwick its lord high admiral.
97. Federal health officials suspect fresh fruit as the source behind the outbreak, but admit the cause or causes may be elusive.
98. On the outbreak of war, a transport of 180 children was left stranded in Prague.
99. No great change occurred in this situation until the outbreak of the crisis and the introduction of the adjustment policies.
100. It did not reach 70 million, and the original target was not achieved before the outbreak of war.
101. There's been an outbreak of food poisoning at the hotel.
102. The outbreak of violence in this area was therefore widely presented as an aberration.
103. Prior to the hepatitis B outbreak, most public health officials had ignored the danger signs in gay male epidemiology.
104. A 50g sample of each food item must be kept for 72 hours in case there is an outbreak of food poisoning.
105. The outbreak of war in 1939 brought these pursuits to a temporary halt.
106. Nevertheless, the potential for a large urban yellow-fever outbreak in Santa Cruz remains beyond doubt.
107. By 1946 the worst epidemic of poliomyelitis since the 1916 outbreak gripped the United States.
108. Vets have been authorised to slaughter on suspicion, to speed up the killing once farmers have reported a possible outbreak.
109. The 1993 outbreak in Milwaukee caused more than 400, 000 residents to become ill and 110 people to die.
110. The outbreak of the Second World War marked the turning point in Midland's fortunes and the start of a long decline.
111. On March 28 such flights were resumed for the first time since the outbreak of war in the Gulf.
112. Like a sudden, unseemly outbreak of boils on the landscape, the little concrete igloos started popping up in the 1970s.
113. Such an act of statesmanship appears the only way to avoid an outbreak of fighting between the two giants of the Commonwealth.
114. An outbreak of scarlet fever had taken the nine-year-old twins in little more than a week.
115. Each of the three also has plans in place for notifying the public should an outbreak occur.
116. The meningitis outbreak is a major cause of worry at the moment.
117. The government responded to the outbreak of violence by declaring a state of emergency in Bangkok and four surrounding provinces.
118. The last group of Zbonszyn children arrived on 29 August, three days before the outbreak of war.
119. Water treatment facilities are non-existent in the area, with chemicals such as chlorine unobtainable to stop the outbreak.
120. Twelve days after the first outbreak was reported, the number of confirmed cases stands at 69.
More similar words: break, break up, break out, break in, break off, breakdown, break down, break away, break into, break through, breath, breast, streak, breadth, breathing, out of breath, cut back, breed, fibre, peak, breeze, steak, speak, sneak, macabre, weaken, speak up, speaker, speak for, so to speak.