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How to use buster in a sentence

29 example sentences · noun

Buster means someone who or something that bursts, breaks, or destroys a specified thing. Example: “Buster plowed ahead with the laptop rollout, ignoring the protests of the workers who had only ever used desktop PC's.”

Examples of buster by meaning

nounForming compounds denoting a team, weapon, or device specialized in the destruction of the first element.

  • German ‘balloon busters’ attack the Dover barrage.1940 September 2, Life, 29/1
  • Each B-2 bomber is able to carry two of these “bunker buster” bombs, which weigh an impressive 30,000 pounds each.2025 June 21, Thomas Bordeaux, Natasha Bertrand and Zachary Cohen, “US moves B-2 bombers as Trump weighs Iran options”, in CNN

nounA broncobuster.

  • Some busters caught their horses for the first time over the head, and snubbed or choked them until they fell gasping.1964, John Hendrix, If I Can Do It Horseback: A Cow-Country Sketchbook, page 40

nounForming compounds denoting an agent or agency tasked with reducing or eliminating the first element.

  • New York City traffic agents have become Gridlock Busters and cigarette foes are smokebusters.1984 November 18, Times, N.Y, iv. 24/2

nounSomeone or something remarkable, especially for being loud, large, etc.

  • What a buster of a lunch it turned out to be.2004 November 20, South Wales Echo, section 9

nounA form of address, particularly of men: guy, dude, fella, mack, buddy, loser. (Originally as 'old buster'.).

  • An extremely wealthy old buster.1919, P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves, section 79
  • ‘Careful, buster,’ she said. ‘I've got a knife in my hand.’2001, S. MacKay, Fall Guy, ix. 113

nounA drinking spree, a binge.

  • All off for a buster, armstrong, hollering down the street.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey]...

nounA gale, a strong wind; (especially Australia) a southerly buster.

  • A buster can be on you in a flash.1991, J. Moore, By Way of Wind, section 121

nounA cheat's die whose sides bear only certain combinations of spots, so that undesirable values can never be rolled.

  • Tops and Bottoms (also Tops, Busters, Ts, Mis-spots): These are the dice used by the professional cheats.1961, John Scarne, Complete Guide to Gambling, page 283
  • To make six-eight, natural dice, or busters, he would take unspotted dice and then grind and color only the spots he wanted.1977, National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, The Development of the Law of Gambling: 1776-1976, page 423

More sentences with buster

  • Buster plowed ahead with the laptop rollout, ignoring the protests of the workers who had only ever used desktop PC's.From the entry plow ahead
  • The choke manifold then expels the fluid or gas to the gas buster or a panic line.2012, Will Pettijohn P.E.C., Oil & Gas Handbook: A Roughneck's guide to the Universe, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 23. From the entry fluid
  • Glazed donuts busters, long johns, fried cinnamons, assorted whipped cream donuts, party snacks, bread, pastries.1962, Manitoba Trade Directory, page 114, column 1. From the entry long john
  • You got a death wish or something, buster?!2011 November 19, “Fast chat: Miss Piggy of 'The Muppets'”, in Newsday. From the entry I see what you did there
  • The solution of some is to design what are in effect baby buster churches, or at least baby buster church services.2009, D. A. Carson, The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism, page 45. From the entry baby buster
  • Poteet, tired of trying to drill history into the heads of the twins, lets out with a real belly buster.2008, Bill Blankenship, Daisy on Wheels, page 83. From the entry belly buster
  • “Vest busters,” in case the cops harassed him.2008, Kerrie Droban, Running with the Devil: The True Story of the ATF's Infiltration of the Hells Angels, page 121. From the entry vest buster
  • Buster Keaton is the plumber, passionate or otherwise, and he is more than ably assisted by the Schnozzle, Jimmy Durante.1932, “The Passionate Plumber”, in Motion Picture, page 64. From the entry schnozzle
  • Your sump buster is a hunk of concrete or metal that teaches the unwitting driver or the outright scoff-law a good lesson.2026 March 24, Deborah Warren, Street Smarts: From Footpath to Freeway―A Miscellany, Paul Dry Books, →ISBN. From the entry sump buster
  • A related design and marketing innovation has been the sale to civilians of “vest busters,” handguns specifically designed to penetrate body armor.2013, Tom Diaz, The Last Gun: How Changes in the Gun Industry are Killing Americans and what it Will Take to Stop it, page 166. From the entry handgun
  • However, I am assured that I have not yet seen either a “howling nor'-wester,” nor its exact antithesis, “ a sutherly buster.”2011, Mary Anne Barker, Station Life in New Zealand, →ISBN, page 49. From the entry nor'wester
  • Watermen harvest soft shell crabs as peelers (about to shed), rank peelers (within hours of shedding) and busters (in the process of shedding).2007, Aliza Green, Field Guide to Seafood, →ISBN. From the entry peeler
  • It was his first number one, his first smasheroo, his first block buster, but definitely not his first 45 revolutions per minute.2005, Mike Robertson, Parts of a Past, page 309. From the entry smasheroo
  • A, a baby buster spends more time with his parents, since the burden of taking care of one's parents is shared by fewer siblings.2001, Erik Lueth, Can inheritances Alleviate the Fiscal Burden of An Aging Population. From the entry baby buster
  • Over in the large corral a bronco buster, assisted by two of the cowboys, was engaged in roping and throwing some wild mustangs.1907, Stewart Edward White, chapter 6, in Arizona Nights. From the entry bronco buster
  • Well, all apart from Alfie Jolly; he was a goody two-shoes according to his twin brother, Buster, who was a baddy two-shoes, a buster gut anti-hero.2020 October 28, Mark Roland Langdale, “A Night at the Old Toy Shop”, in The Toy Museum: The Boy Who Gave His Birthdays Back, Kibworth…. From the entry baddy two-shoes
  • Baby boomers, baby busters, and baby boomlets view God in action differently than the generations of slavery, convict leasing, the civil rights movement, and the War on Drugs.2014, Rev. Roger W. Baker, Who Authorized You to Quit?. From the entry baby boomlet
  • Present-day construction "stiffs" relish explanation of such nicknames as pile butt, rod buster, rust eater, tin knocker, and wood butcher, as well as tales about what these "hands" do.1993, Archie Green, Wobblies, Pile Butts, and Other Heroes: Laborlore Explorations, page 4. From the entry rodbuster

Meaning of buster

  1. noun Someone who or something that bursts, breaks, or destroys a specified thing.
  2. noun Forming compounds denoting a team, weapon, or device specialized in the destruction of the first element.
  3. noun A broncobuster.

Full definition of buster

Questions about buster in a sentence

How do you use buster in a sentence?
Buster is used as a noun. For example: “Buster plowed ahead with the laptop rollout, ignoring the protests of the workers who had only ever used desktop PC's.”
What is a short sentence with buster?
“An extremely wealthy old buster.”
What does buster mean?
Buster means someone who or something that bursts, breaks, or destroys a specified thing.

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