How to Use buster in a Sentence

buster

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  • And this year doesn’t appear to be any sort of streak buster.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2023
  • There’s no guard rail on the footpath and the breathless climb back up is a knee-buster.
    — Keli Dailey, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Jan. 2018
  • But too much of a clot-buster could lead to bleeds, so once the process is sparked, the body rapidly clears out tPA.
    — Karen Weintraub, STAT, 6 Apr. 2018
  • No streak-buster The Eagles have lost 12 straight to Clemson.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2019
  • The irony is that the Trump trust busters are banking on Barack Obama’s judges to do the saving.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 July 2018
  • Which team in each region is bound to be a bracket buster?
    — The Si Staff, SI.com, 11 Mar. 2018
  • The drug is also unique among the amyloid busters that came before.
    — Alice Park, Time, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Oral Roberts coach Paul Mills summed up what a bracket-buster can mean to fans and how the sport can inspire.
    — USA Today, 5 Apr. 2021
  • To have a drought buster storm, the area would need inches of rain over several days or weeks, and that is not in the cards.
    — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2022
  • The new Boomstick Burger follows the name of the Rangers’ first ballpark belt-buster 11 years ago.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The biscuit on the side was soft and sensibly sized, not a cat-head Bubba-buster.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 22 May 2022
  • Most anglers use 6 to 8 pound test mono on bream-buster type long rods for this action.
    — Frank Sargeant, AL.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • My pick here is also designed to be something of a trend buster.
    — USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The list of gut-busters for the 2020 season will not become available until March.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Will that be enough time for healing before the big bracket-buster with LSU?
    — George Schroeder, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2019
  • Streak busters: The Islanders’ 10-game winning streak had to end sometime.
    — Ross McKeon, SFChronicle.com, 8 Nov. 2019
  • That detail is the other reason this might not be the best game on paper for FCD to use as a slump-buster.
    — Jon Arnold, Dallas News, 22 July 2022
  • In the late 2000’s, rumors circulated about a bunker in Iran struck by a bunker-buster bomb.
    — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 19 Sep. 2022
  • That would be huge — it’s the kind of thing that gets replayed forever, a bracket buster for the ages — and can change the face of a program.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 18 Mar. 2021
  • This is not a vintage Syracuse bracket buster, and San Diego State will meet the moment.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Will the actual game — between the Bengals and Rams — serve up a bigger trend-buster?
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Feb. 2022
  • JaQuori McLaughlin had 13 points and seven assists in the near-bracket buster. Iona.
    — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2021
  • For the second time this month, the trust busters have received a sharp rebuke from the judiciary.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 June 2018
  • That brings me to my second myth buster: Working people don’t have time for a culture war.
    — Eric Adams, CNN, 13 Dec. 2022
  • With that being said, AI and robotics can be a stress buster for the elderly.
    — Naveen Joshi, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • No one is expecting an easy time in the potential streak-buster.
    — G Smith, NOLA.com, 10 Nov. 2020
  • There's no better way to eradicate the inevitable mess than with a sleek and lightweight dust-buster.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 9 Mar. 2023
  • That’s why being down $4.5 million isn’t a budget buster.
    — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 24 June 2020
  • Elon Musk, zillionaire king of the nerds, alt-right meme lord, and committed union buster, is not the guy who’s gonna figure it out.
    — WSJ, 31 Oct. 2022
  • That makes the currency less useful as a sanctions-buster.
    — The Economist, 17 Mar. 2018

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