How To Use Break In A Sentence

Assuming that 15 pound breaking strain line is used, an angler using monofilament might have to use a six or eight ounce sinker and use a 20 lb class rod to carry that sinker weight.
It didn't break, but George was bleeding and had copped a bit of a shiner.
‘Break, break, break,’ for instance, is a bitter poem on unrecompensed, pointless loss, but it achieves its power and makes its point very indirectly, largely through structural implications.
“And now, Sir John de Walton,” he said, “methinks you are a little churlish in not ordering me some breakfast, after I have been all night engaged in your affairs; and a cup of muscadel would, I think, be no bad induction to a full consideration of this perplexed matter.” Castle Dangerous
They establish a colony on Ragol but this perfect planet soon unleashes a few surprises and all hell breaks loose.

When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed. John Green
I used to break-dance really badly. Times, Sunday Times
A leisurely breakfast - even the motel manager was moaning about the way the Italians "hogged" the muffins this morning and drank cups of milk instead of putting it on their bran flakes! TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
Don't break in when he is telling the story.
Martin did well to recover from the onslaught to go a break up in the third set.
The breaking of a branch under my foot alarmed the deer.
Over Fate of Georgia, Provinces With Russian forces appearing to hunker down in Georgia, U.S. and European officials now face a pricklier challenge: Moscow's insistence that it has the right to help break up the country. U.S.-Russia Relations Turn Cold
Behold the mermaid blanket, a fishy update on that hygge groundbreaker, the slanket. Times, Sunday Times
But that day isn't going to be now, or any time in the next ten years, absent a major breakthrough.
A minute later Arsenal extended their lead after breaking with searing pace.
Once the egg is half-cooked, break the yolk and cut into the white with your spatula. Times, Sunday Times
He shaved, got dressed and took the elevator to the breakfast-room.
Management has not succeeded in breaking the strike.
He's come back to scrounge a meal and a bed, and he'll be off with what he's managed to steal before daybreak. THE BLACK OPAL
One table had an older family, taking a break from cooking at home.
I haf to light de fire, put on de kiddle, scrap some vit my vife, and get myself breakfast. Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers
It was too easy for some units we saw to take a final break before the big push into Iraq.
Hunt thinks it unlikely that the currency will break parity with the dollar next year, and feels it is likely to settle around the $0.92 level.
It is the first major film the Star Wars actor, from Crieff, has made in the town where he got his first theatrical break.
In this case the experiment involves using a hydraulic press to crush specimen cubes of the concrete, and measuring the pressure at which the cube breaks.
A short umbilical cable rolled out with the rocket which was fired by electrical impulse, breaking the cord.
Back in the '60s and '70s I listened to Gordon Lightfoot a fair bit when I wanted to take a break from the harder rock that was the staple of my listening.
York were immediately on the back foot but repelled a series of short corners and managed to engineer a breakaway attack.
The Museum is looking to host exhibitions that celebrate major technological breakthroughs and the people behind them.
I would show up unannounced, watch Jaime teach calculus, chat with Principal Henry Gradillas, check in with other Advanced Placement classes and in the early afternoon call my editor in Washington to say I was chasing down the latest medfly outbreak story, or whatever seemed believable at the time. Unlike many, Escalante believed in teaching, not sorting
Making a completely clean break with the past, the couple got rid of all their old furniture.
They usually leave this live breaking stuff to the cable news networks these days.
Hytra Grouper on a bed of salicornia and spinach accompanied with a crayfish sauce scented with pelargonium at Hytra It's daybreak at Athens' Agora, or central market, and the air is buzzing with the cries of fish mongers hawking the day's catch. Not Your Typical Greek Salad
Who knew breaking up with Ted would so aversely affect her story-lines. How I Became Disappointed With HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER | the TV addict
Most nuns fasted to keep the rule: the anorexics fasted to break it.
Bu to me, this looks like a supped up contender breakaction. And Now, A Really Manly Handgun
We need not worry about the disappearance of this space because its elasticity prevents true rupture or breakage.
She would have to break up her body into small particles of matter.
Monasteries, breaking the Lawes of obedience, and being addicted to pleasures of the flesh, are become lascivious and dissolute, making the world beleeve, that whatsoever is convenient for other women, is no way unbeseeming them, as thinking in that manner to escape. The Decameron
They have to put up with some shoddy sequels to groundbreaking originals.
Open source software is often portrayed as a breakthrough in the free and open exchange of intellectual property, without precedent in the prevailing global capitalist mentality.
They said that as their longer "taciturnity" might cause the ruin of his Majesty's affairs, they were at last compelled to break silence. The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)
In an attempt to break the strike, management used megaphones to instruct the afternoon shift, who were gathered in a car park, to return to work or face immediate dismissal.
Preserving the launch configurations also gives the developer the ability to run the server inside the JDT debugger, so he can set breakpoints on his user-defined SQL functions.
Exponible propositions generally break down into elements that are called exponent propositions; they explain or expound what is going on in the exponible proposition. Archive 2005-01-01
Pasture lands and meadow lands are often greatly improved by replowing and harrowing in order to break up the turf that forms and to admit air more freely into the soil. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition
She goes swimming every morning before breakfast. What you wear for this activity is usually called a swimming costume in BrE and a bathing suit in AmE.
These build and swell into clouds, suddenly breaking apart and dispersing unexpectedly.
When I was a kid I loved listening to all the shop talk around the breakfast table and dinner table.
Anyone who buys this breakfast food gets a free gift of a fine greeting card.
His throat burned for oxygen and he felt his ribs compressing, compacting, and ready to break.
Internet 2 continues to break astounding records for transmitting data.
Scientists are claiming a major breakthrough in the fight against cancer.
His distraught wife Lesley had to break the devastating news to the children that their dad would not be coming home.
People come up to me all of the time and as a conversation ice-breaker often say, ‘You're the food editor.’
Men are left idle when machines break down.
In view of the publicity already given to these subjects, it is necessary to note in fuller detail two matters connected with the health of the Canadian troops at Salisbury Plain – namely, the outbreak of cerebro-spinal fever and the veneral situation. War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps
Every day she eats beans on toast followed by an egg mayonnaise sandwich for breakfast.
I also readily recall those days when we had sweet water - for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Then you start to tuck into your breakfast but have to give in after two or three mouthfuls because the pain of chewing and then swallowing the food becomes unbearable.
At an emotional news conference, members of the women's eight apologised for breaking national Olympic rules and expressed regret at condemning their team mate.
You mustn't break the rule that no one but drivers can enter the cab.
After a short break James will commence his winter training for the forthcoming indoor season.
The pictures showed that when the water reached a certain speed, it began to break into eddies, waves and cross-currents.
Should I swallow my pride and ask him out, at the risk of rejection, heartbreak, or alienation?
Here he climbs aboard the ‘longest train in the world’, breaking his journey at Chinguetti.
In international custom, a nation that unilaterally breaks contracts must make good the damage.
Probably by breaking off from a frame to do a quick poo in the corner of the auditorium.
After breakfast, basking herself in the sun, Frona descried a familiar bunch of men rounding the tail of the glacier in the direction of CHAPTER 4
They will block further tax cuts, except modest breaks for small businesses to ease the burden of a minimum wage increase.
Huguenots the free exercise of their religion only in the suburbs of one town in each bailiwick (bailliage), and in those places where it had been practised before the outbreak of hostilities and which they occupied at the current date. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
It was more than a break from what came before; it was a seismic rupture.
The lawyer requested a break in the court case, but the judge demurred.
Break up large clods and remove rocks and roots.
Each new exhibition of the irrevocableness of the break between Jesus and the leaders was a severe test of their loyalty. The Life of Jesus of Nazareth
Large packs of black matted mastiffs prowl the streets for scraps, occasionally breaking into fights of heart-stopping ferocity.
As soon as the Red Sox saw he had neither, they ignored his breaking balls and feasted on his fastballs en route to a 6-4 win on Tuesday night in the Bronx. Score Sheet
The fruit of the fig is about as big as a rounceval pea, or very small gooseberry; and each of them, upon breaking off the stalk very close, produces one drop of a milky liquor, resembling the juice of our figs, of which the tree is indeed a species. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13
A series of offensives in early 1918 achieved initial success but ultimately failed to break the Allied line, and by summer, with the Americans coming in droves, the tide of the war had turned irreversibly against the Central Powers. How Wars end
Stop messing with the spoon and finish your breakfast.
Tomorrow will be cloudy with outbreaks of rain and drizzle.
The large lagoon and break in the reef attract many species, including dugongs, whale sharks, dolphins and manta rays.
For years, breakfast for me has been a smoothie made with an apple, a banana, blueberries and rice or soy milk.
He succeeded in his attempt to break the world record.
German forces remilitarized the territory in 1936, as part of a diplomatic test of will, three years before the outbreak of the Second World War.
We washed some bread down with a glass of milk for breakfast.
Mould - breaking strategies grow initially like weeds. They are not cultivated like tomatoes in a hothouse.
This way the bad guys will breakin to your home rob, rape your wives, daughters, rob your home, carjack you, and all other crimes they can commit against you knowing you can not defend yourself. Senate rejects concealed weapons bill
After the main presentations, an hour will be devoted to breakout sessions in which executive development hurdles and needs would be explored.
Everything will work fine, but unfortunately your phone will be stuck in restore mode until you jailbreak it, which is what we're doing next.
There is very little to break the familiarity and deadening monotony of Aslam's routine.
Hot Wheels Classics: The Redline Era proudly showcases more than 500 spectacular color photos so some of the finest cars of this groundbreaking time.
The only way to break such impasses is not through some kind of plausibly democratic process -- e.g., Balkinization
So the historic gold and bimetallic standards receive attention, both as union and disunion (breaking-up).
The fifth series of this thriller is more terrifying and heartbreaking than ever. The Sun
They demonstrate that the orogen likely developed over a Neoproterozoic failed continental rift that was linked to the breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
Despite going to sea on a boat with no windows, no fantail, no helipad or even a hatch to allow in some tension-breaking fresh salt air, submariners are still sailors at heart.
At first glance, that mightn't seem very favourable as many top players like to take a break after a major championship.
The company also caters breakfast or lunch every week and funds other periodic after-hours activities such as karting, shooting, paintball. Jobs.joelonsoftware.com
Breaking Agassi by out rallying him from the baseline, he took his next service game to love.
With other breakthroughs in chemistry, it is now possible to synthesize some natural products, like rubber, from non-natural sources.
The hi-tech visions appear as fully executed architectonic meditations, linking architecture with landscape and making ground-breaking technology an important component of the program. Grand Illusions on the Hudson
To begin with the surface is coherent – now and again she smiles sadly at the charm he manages to bestow on that foul-smelling tannery – but as she turns the pages she sees it start to break down. Rachel Cusk | Portraits
Peche was able to create this dreamworld by breaking up a wall with a row of narrow windows, by giving the illusion of height with columns and pilasters, and by blurring the borders of a room.
Do you want a boiled egg for breakfast?
Doherty took a 6-2 lead last night, compiling a 107 break in the second frame but Dale hit the highest break of the televised stages with a 140 in the seventh frame.
The kitchen juts out from the dining room and has a breakfast area with a pentagonal roof light.
Don't bear hard on the pencil, it will break.
There is space for a four-seater breakfast table as well as plumbing for a dishwasher.
If the primary infection is not treated further outbreaks may occur.
Good courage breaks bad luck.
It is important to understand that we are breaking a habit, for we have been conditioned to react in this way.
It doesn't always work: Five years ago in the Alps she landed badly on a jump, breaking her pelvis and fracturing a vertebra.
Logically the enormous nonrecurring costs would also be recovered from the price after the break-even point is reached.
For a while she became an underwear model for Lejaby, but her big break came when she landed the job as hostess in the TV gameshow Wheel of Fortune.
The white flakes do not exhibit the true conchoidal fracture in such perfection elsewhere; nor break off in such delicious morsels, edged with delicate brown. Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses
It also helped that the fall made him look as if he were breakdancing. Times, Sunday Times
Besides cleaning up barf, breaking up fights and propping up staggering patrons, owners and waiters can get sued if overly-lubricated lushes kill or injure someone on their drive home.
But the Marshall islanders take little interest in those factors - what count instead are the shapes and orientations of the ocean swells that break around islands.
My weekly budget breaks down as follows:50% for rent, 20% for food, 10% for travel, and 20% for everything else.
Farrell also said that Atlanta Bread would offer breakfast, lunch and dinner and also provide some outdoor seating.
But they are my responsibility, and it's always heartbreaking if a hive dies out.
Prior to European settlement (pre-1850), a wide variety of disturbances characterized the region, ranging from frequent small-scale and localized events such as treefall gaps to rare, large-scale events such as stand-replacing fires and epizootic outbreaks. Eastern Cascades forests
The volunteers fasted overnight, or for six hours after a light breakfast if the study was carried out in the afternoon.
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I didn't realize Vikki wasn't willing to break her healthy habits and was unable to convince her to share fish 'n chips with me.
Hip-hop rose in urban centers, launched by breakdancers and carried forward by emcees, DJs and graffiti artists.
Yet breaking the endless cycle of global poverty that powers these wars is achievable, Mr Annan says.
Since markets are interconnected and some banks occupy quasi - monopolistic positions, we must consider breaking them up.
The role of veterinarians as first responders to outbreaks of animal disease is central to national efforts to defend against agroterrorism.
However, for our purposes, we have used a working definition anchored on Haramiyavia, assuming that the unknown intersection between multituberculates and modern mammals is the appropriate break point.
I went back on the singles circuit even though the break with Vic should have made me cautious.
Yes, he agrees, there are pockets of development, but you have to have breakthrough points.
The 1.1-acre site has access to a small bathing area and harbour enclosed by a concrete pier and a breakwater.
The breakout brings to 15 the number of awaiting-trial prisoners who have escaped from police holding cells in the Transkei since the weekend.
The Labour council broke off negotiations after the strikes last week, claiming that there had been violence at the depot where the strikebreaking dustcarts operate.
You can see very specific break-dancing moves in these works.
Wash your hands after visits to the restrooms and breakrooms and also remember that shopping and any trips to public places can result in exposure to infections.
True to form, the finished 2003 wines delivered record-breaking levels of tannin, sugar and alcohol; many châteaux have made clarets weighing in at 15 per cent-plus alcohol, as in Australia and California.
At the same time, Breakwater is preparing to bulldoze most of those buildings this summer as part of its clean-up plan.
Because then that bald spokesguy with the BIG VOICE!! and unblinking stare is on my TV every bloody commercial break. I hate it when The Brick has a sale
Putting in a quote there breaks the flow of your speech.
So saying, he exhorted Brown to be hasty in dispatching his breakfast, as, the frost having given way, the scent would lie this morning primely. Chapter XXV
Wesson meant for his plan to be triggered if police or employees with Child Protective Services — people he called devils — attempted to break up his family, she has argued. Wesson’s speedy trial a rarity
The eccentricity, bleeding, wire breaking, low mechanic property in the production of aluminium - clad steel wire are analyzed, the prevention and the resolution method put forword.
They also deliberated on the path-breaking innovations that changed things for the better.
He suddenly leapt up and made a break for the door.
Take a chopper and then break the backbones near the bottom of the cut (this is called chining).
Despite all our attempts to break it open, the lock would not yield.
The two other downstairs rooms, the breakfast room and the kitchen, were Florence's domain.
As a swarm of new dot-com brands try to buy their way to brand recognition, clutter makes it difficult to break out, and it's easy to fritter away advertising dollars.
Prosecutors and judges will have no difficulty in differentiating between cases, however inventive are those determined to break a democratically enacted law.
Ms. Fuchs believes the topic of safe sex isn't one where a parent can allow for a child to break down into the giggles and get squirmy. Mother Works to Make AIDS Education a Priority
Besides, he had, it seems, a weakness in his voice, a perplexed and indistinct utterance and a shortness of breath, which, by breaking and disjointing his sentences much obscured the sense and meaning of what he spoke. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
When this breaker crashed onto the beach of popular culture, the legend was made and the grave dug, but the music his legacy has inspired is insipid and dull.
A fast break would put him in with a very serious chance. The Sun
You must break your bad habit of interrupting a speaker.
It was around midnight and I'd only completed four pitches since daybreak.
It has many kerned letters which are liable to break off at the ends of the lines in an exposed position. The Uses of Italic A Primer of Information Regarding the Origin and Uses of Italic Letters
In breaks from active service, he farmed in Hampshire, took employment with the Portuguese navy, and was briefly employed as a spy among the naval bases in southern France.
On Sunday enjoy a farewell breakfast with your new friends, it will give you a chance to exchange names and addresses with your fellow guests.
We made two groundbreaking discoveries this week. Times, Sunday Times
These days, the rasher is spreading beyond the borders of breakfast and into dishes as varied as bacon martinis and bacon ice cream. Friday Open Thread (Blog for Democracy)
They worked ten or twelve hours breaking rocks and stones for roadmaking and repairing, carrying heavy loads, performing superhuman tasks. Rebecca Sieff.
He wolfed down his breakfast and went to school.
The contents of her backpack spilled out, many items breaking with a resounding crash as a result.
Frazer will probably make or break himself on this nuclear issue. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
It was used to justify the introduction of the poll tax and to justify breaking up metropolitan counties.
Any broken/latin stuff? looopz: What time are you on, might well make it down to this …. provided I can persuade someone else cassien: u.k. funky is house music for ol junglist like myself I'd like to break it here in the states but ... Grievous Angel
Secondly we changed the sampling mode, using dual monostable multivibrators to select the focusing window, which solves the sampling drift problem raised by SCM break.
The teacher who can break a mainspring first and keep it from getting mended, is often the most esteemed in the community. The Lost Art of Reading
Shall prove but glassen hammers: they shall break. The White Devil
He finished with 18 aces and 41 service winners, and won despite breaking serve just twice.
The breakfast consisted of two fried eggs and two rashers of streaky bacon crisply done.
Saturday will be a cloudier day with outbreaks of mainly light rain in western areas, spreading slowly eastwards, though many central and eastern areas should remain dry.
Even the superperson resulting from such a genetic break-through could still run headlong into the buzz saw of words heard by so many laid-off mid-level executives who have recently hit the streets: 30 DAYS TO A GOOD JOB
There were several breakout hits, films that commanded both critical kudos and broad audience appeal, assuring substantive box-office numbers.
Hunkin's page coincided with our acquisition of this book by the delightfully-named Shifty Burke, Memoirs of a safe-breaker, published by Arthur Baker Ltd in 1966.
But now that the sun was fully out, he could see beyond the breakers, way beyond the waves to the flat water at the back.
What better way to break the ice with a roomful of total strangers in a foreign country whose language you don't know?
Both sides blamed each other for the breakdown of talks.
In California a three-person outbreak of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome occurred in patients in a hospital.
The engines are fuelled by liquid petroleum gas, which means that there is no risk of a fire breaking out.
He says the Holocaust was being used to legitimise the suffering of other peoples and he wanted to break what he called a taboo on discussing it. Neturei Karta Hasidim Hangin’ With Ahmadinejad | Jewschool
They dare not do a disco because they fear an outbreak of drug-taking and break-dancing or both!
When a photon strikes the PV cell it ionises a silicon atom, transferring all its energy to an outer electron and allowing that electron to break free from the silicon atom.
The exciting discovery was apparently made when researchers were forced to break open the leg bone of a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil to lift it by helicopter.
Public and administrative law Law can prohibit or regulate activities: The citizen can obey or break the law.
A cross-court forehand brought a break point saved with a 133 mph serve. Times, Sunday Times
He possibly could have cautioned him for holding and hitting as well, or he could have simply ordered them to break.
Of course, his most effective weapons are his boomerangs, which he can use to take out distant enemies, break items, or glide from heights.
It's impossible to stay fully hydrated while actually climbing, so rehydrating at the end of the day or during breaks between hard effort is essential.
The following year, Garcia took a one-stroke lead to the 70th hole of the PGA Championship but Harrington again thwarted Garcia's bid to break into the fraternity of major champions. In majors, taking on Tiger always part of the problem
So he sleepeth and wotteth not whither she goeth, nor what she doeth; but we know that after giving him the drugged wine, she donneth her richest raiment and perfumeth herself and then she fareth out from him to be away till break of day; then she cometh to him, and burneth a pastile under his nose and he awaketh from his deathlike sleep. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
To celebrate their golden anniversary the couple are planning a relaxing break in Torquay.
After a time teaching drama in borstals, prisons and community centres, he suffered two more breakdowns until one day, while sitting on a bus, his persistent angst, dread and fear of failure simply evaporated.
This exceptionality allows the establishment of a sort of democracy: we are all equal because we all have the right to break the law’.
Inspector Rajaram Pardeshi, in-charge of the Junnar police station said the suspects in Shivneri cut three iron grills of the temple window with a sharp object and decamped with a mangalsutra and a nath (nose ring) and some money (totalling Rs 10,725) by breaking open the donation box sometime between Monday night and early Tuesday morning. Are We Losing Our Faith in Tough Times?
The detrimental effects of wind on vines are described under wind stress; installing windbreaks can provide a solution.
Anyone breaking the law will be severely punished.

How To Use Break In A Sentence

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