Definition: 1. A complete failure. 2. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person. 3. An occasion for excessive eating or drinking. 4. Ruin completely. 5. Search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on. 6. Separate or cause to separate abruptly. 7. Go to pieces.
1. The dot.corn bust discredited most predictions of that sort and in the years that followed, on ventional retailers' confidence in the future increased as Census continued to report weak online sales.
2. For him it's the Olympics or bust.
3. You can bust a gut sixteen hours a day, seven days a week, but if your product is lousy, you've wasted your time.
4. Is the store with the supercheap flat screens going to go bust and thus not be there to honor the "free" extended warranty?
5. If he isn't any good, I'll bust him. that's all.
6. It is taxpayers who will pay most of the bill for bailing out bust banks.
7. The dot.com bust discredited most predictions of that sort and in the years that followed, conventional retailers' confidence in the future increased as Census continued to report weak online sales.
8. It was money troubles that busted up their marriage.
9. I plan to sculpt a bust of my father.
10. He dropped his watch on the pavement and bust it.
11. What caused the boom and bust?
12. Do you have this dress in a bigger bust size?
13. Excavator sales fell 10 percent in May from a year earlier, possibly foreshadowing a construction bust.
14. The villagers say some of Liukuaizhuang's bare bones factories, where paint is mixed in open drums in fume-filled warehouses, have already gone bust.
15. They will have to bust the door to get him out.
16. We're bust!
17. The lights are busted.
18. It would be a mistake to think we are right now simply experiencing the painful side of a boom and bust cycle.
19. The couple bust up after an argument.
20. Bust it did, when one cold February morning in 1637, a group of bulb traders got together and discovered that suddenly there were no bidders.
21. One big law firm even went bust.
22. To bust the paradigm a radically different approach is needed.
23. Come out, or I'll bust the door down!
24. The business went bust.
25. It was his drinking that bust up his marriage.
26. Six tons of cocaine were seized last week in Panama's biggest drug bust.
27. Good posture helps your bust look bigger.
28. It is a bust chiseled from a rock.
29. " I think he is much the most interesting man we have had out here," observed miss annual," since the last bust of scott!"
30. He just busted in on my conversation without a second thought.
31. I really don't want to bust your bubble, but it sounds like you already have.
32. He's been busted for drugs.
33. You are so busted!
34. Recent Emmy-winner Joey Pants is one bust-out, badass dude who deserves a hit.
35. If they go bust, we all lose.
36. They've really been kicking ass lately — busting places up, harassing everybody.
37. Now, you've got all the ingredients for a huge bust.
38. I bust my camera.
39. Los Angeles had a real estate boom and bust in the 1880s; that's hard to believe.
40. We must avoid the damaging boom-bust cycles which characterized the 1980s.
41. Perhaps the best example of boom growth and bust decline is the Grand Banks fishery.
42. But, there's a type of rapid expansion, what might be called the hysterical or irrational boom that pretty much always leads to a bust.
43. Sue and Tony had a bust-up and aren't speaking to each other.
44. What is your bust measurement, Madam?
45. My watch is bust.
46. We lost our money when the travel company went bust.
47. The workers are casting a stainless steel bust.
