1.   Our neighborhood looked like a refugee camp, bursting its seams.

2.   And in the end we are meant to feel the tiniest twinge of hope at the endurance of those characters who have not burst their seams into violence.

3.   And Torn has an imposing quality of emotional largeness that brings mythic dimensions to this small-scale drama without bursting its seams.

4.   He opened his show Tuesday evening with Cindy Crawford in a pearl-and-bead-embroidered green satin dress that threatened to burst its seams.

5.   Now, the city has burst its seams, as hundreds of houses go up on the steep hills beyond the reach of public water and sewer systems.

6.   Other folks burst their seams over Thanksgiving or rave about the Fourth of July.

7.   The truth is, most of us are much more concerned about the flab that jiggles when we walk and bursts seams when we sit down.

8.   Yet with the museum bursting its seams, Baker is determined to expand into a larger facility.