How To Use Breaking 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.
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
The breaking of a branch under my foot alarmed the deer.
A minute later Arsenal extended their lead after breaking with searing pace.
Management has not succeeded in breaking the strike.

A short umbilical cable rolled out with the rocket which was fired by electrical impulse, breaking the cord.
They usually leave this live breaking stuff to the cable news networks these days.
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
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.
These build and swell into clouds, suddenly breaking apart and dispersing unexpectedly.
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.
Here he climbs aboard the ‘longest train in the world’, breaking his journey at Chinguetti.
Probably by breaking off from a frame to do a quick poo in the corner of the auditorium.
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
Mould - breaking strategies grow initially like weeds. They are not cultivated like tomatoes in a hothouse.
Hot Wheels Classics: The Redline Era proudly showcases more than 500 spectacular color photos so some of the finest cars of this groundbreaking time.
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
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.
Breaking Agassi by out rallying him from the baseline, he took his next service game to love.
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
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.
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.
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 they are my responsibility, and it's always heartbreaking if a hive dies out.
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 Labour council broke off negotiations after the strikes last week, claiming that there had been violence at the depot where the strikebreaking dustcarts operate.
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.
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.
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
We made two groundbreaking discoveries this week. Times, Sunday Times
They worked ten or twelve hours breaking rocks and stones for roadmaking and repairing, carrying heavy loads, performing superhuman tasks. Rebecca Sieff.
The contents of her backpack spilled out, many items breaking with a resounding crash as a result.
It was used to justify the introduction of the poll tax and to justify breaking up metropolitan counties.
He finished with 18 aces and 41 service winners, and won despite breaking serve just twice.
The engines are fuelled by liquid petroleum gas, which means that there is no risk of a fire breaking out.
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?
Anyone breaking the law will be severely punished.
A long screech was followed by a thud as a matronly passenger tumbled forward, breaking her arm.
He and the coffee table hit the ground with a loud thud and the sound for breaking wood.
Staff were ‘breaking down in tears of frustration’ as they were reduced to calculating cases on paper, MPs heard.
A youth - accused of rape, housebreaking and theft - burst into tears yesterday when his mother asked the court to keep him in jail for his own safety.
At this stage, the tenderness of meat can also be influenced by breaking it down physically.
Mark kicked the glass and it cracked, he kicked again breaking it.
I would suggest that if they are bent on breaking Bengal they may opt for joining Sikkim which is a state comprising of Nepalese, Gorkhas, Bhutias, Lepchas and some other mongoloid ethnic groups. Is Gorkhaland Movement Entering a Phase of Violence?
• En route to Europe, Clinton called the multibillion-dollar American reconstruction effort in Afghanistan "heartbreaking," because she said there was little to show for it. ModerateVoters.org
What I didn't reckon on was that this hormonal upheaval was also going to result in my voice breaking.
The outer edge of the reef receives the full force of breaking waves, protecting the inner Australian shoreline.
You sing along, making sure to pantomime your heart breaking.
The unemployed were signed up to do back-breaking manual work for low pay.
In the actual breaking-up moment, the dissolving of what could have been a perfect partnership in fantasyland does hurt. The Lo-Down
The engines are fuelled by liquid petroleum gas, which means that there is no risk of a fire breaking out.
Oreck next maintained that many of its challenged statements were nonactionable puffery: (1) the Dyson is “bulky”; (2) the Oreck vacuum emits “no puff” of dust when it is emptied; (3) the Dyson bin emptying process is “messy” and the Dyson filter is “not sanitary” and a “dirty little secret”; and (4) the XL Ultra 4120 weighs “only nine pounds,” while the weight of the DC14 is “backbreaking.” Archive 2009-03-01
Simultaneously, his urge to challenge the limits prodded him to attempt breaking world records.
“Indeed, Robin, I’ll be better advised before I gie it back to you; it is a wanchancy weapon in a Highlandman’s hand, and I am thinking you will be about some harns-breaking.” Chronicles of the Canongate
Having watched reasonably moderate candidates lose the last two presidential elections in heartbreaking fashion, and feeling further frustrated by the steady failure to win either house of Congress, Democrats have made it an article of faith that they lack the political and policy mechanisms to compete with their Republican counterparts. Take Two: Hillary's Choice
She wanted to slam the door shut, to hear the satisfying crack of wood against wood, splintering and breaking.
I recall a mini-series on Cook's life in which, ice-bound and with the ship possibly breaking up, he commented to an officer, ‘I can't swim.’
I am useless when it comes to subterfuge or breaking rules and I botched the entire mission right royally.
Flemings, and plans of bitter enmity against them; and the sight of his murdered father, with that look and tone of the old Dane, fired his spirit, and breaking from his trance of silent awe and grief, he exclaimed, "I see it, and dearly shall the traitor Fleming abye it! The Little Duke
We expect to debut the surprising research from this groundbreaking study at the end of July.
The audio is sure to give the venue's newly upgraded sound system a thorough breaking-in, while the images transport with a hypnogogic flow of abstract patterns conjured through digital manipulations of a dozen shots of what looks like crumpled aluminum foil. Sad Sacks and Barrels of Laughs
Mr. Palmer rentered by breaking a window to his second-floor bedroom. Post-gazette.com - News
However, breaking the law often starts with unethical behaviour that has gone unnoticed.
Three times I can remember it: the ending tunnel silhouette in "The Third Man," falling rubble jarringly breaking up a scene (by splicing the foreground and midground) in of all things "Duck Soup," and noticing a borrowed composition from "La Dolce Vida" (namely, a long shot where multiple people were running and the camera followed them) showing up in "Little Miss Sunshine. Reverse Storyboarding
But as times and tastes changed, it needed a catalyst to move beyond the shopworn stereotypes of LAPD cops as either by-the-book straight arrows or rakish, rule-breaking mavericks.
Middleton had denied breaking into the bank on 6 December last year while acting with others, with intent to steal.
Warping, splitting along the grain, the breaking apart of joins, the flaking of paint and ground from the wooden substrate, and insect damage are all commonly encountered.
This may be termed the statical breaking strength. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
The drizzle had now stopped and the sun was breaking through.
Curves, like waves breaking, had been worked into the sides, accented by the gilt-covered scrolls that bordered the edges.
Genuine international concern over the possibility of all-out war breaking out was expressed on a number of occasions.
Dawn was breaking as Marie rose from her first restful night's sleep in two weeks.
I'm sure the genius that was Joseph Mallord William Turner, landscaping master of light, tone and shade would fully endorse some of the previous groundbreaking entries.
In this ground-breaking investigation, for the first time hear the truth of the genocidal killings.
Sir John Herschel compared it to a surface studded over with flocks of wool, or to the breaking up of a mackerel sky when the clouds of which it consists begin to assume a cirrous appearance. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
Make Blog has a great roundup of links and coverage for the opening of Bletchley Park's recreation of the Polish "bombe" code-cracking devices that were instrumental in breaking the German Enigma cipher in World War II. Boing Boing
When breaking in an engine, you probably should refrain from high speed for the first thousand miles.
When I say "misanthropic," by the way, I'm neither being judgmental nor breaking any news. News & Politics
“Hold your fire, you gudgeons!” he thundered, bounding over the debris toward the direction of the sound of yet another snarl and breaking glass. Sexy Beast IV
He had recently collared a car thief who confessed to breaking into 100 cars in one night.
When he finds what seems to be a groundbreaking mathematical proof, the question of its origin drives the plot.
Walking back to the Lokosphinx, we watch Army conscripts in greatcoats and fur-flapped caps breaking the ice with bludgeons and pouring hot water on the snow.
What the judges, politicians and others concerned need to remember is a burglar is breaking the law and must be prosecuted.
They are to be charged with attempting to murder Muller, abducting him, arson, theft, theft of a motor vehicle and housebreaking and theft.
Journal in double triumph Roy Castle takes a break from record-breaking and relaxes with a good read.
He needs consecrated men, to hurl them against the organized powers, and inbreaking hordes, that are desecrating the Sabbath, corrupting the Sketches of the Covenanters
Ships were still smoking and fires kept breaking out on the harbor and Matt knew that no matter what happened after this, he would never forget it.
Kerzner has denied breaking the law, and Sun has characterized the episode as commercial extortion.
There arose in that narrow, iron-sided gorge a havoc such as belike surpassed that of the original breaking through of the waters. The Sagebrusher A Story of the West
He continues by breaking down UxD, examining how each element implied in the title illuminate his hypothesis - that the ephemeral and insubstantial Comments at Boxes and Arrows
Bacteria and microbes in the soil and in the waste itself do a spectacular job of breaking down the waste.
Indians are breaking the soil into clods with picks.
He will enlist the help of three minders to clear his path and stop the crowd breaking his concentration.
I've seen it happen more than once to some very dear, sweet people, and it's really heartbreaking to watch.
Below Greyabbey, I watched the oystercatchers breaking cockle shells on the rocks.
A 16-year-old boy will appear before a magistrate today, charged with housebreaking and larceny of $20,000 worth of household items.
BELLEVILLE, Ontario — A commander who was a rising star in Canada's military pleaded guilty Monday to the murders of two women, the sexual assaults of two others and dozens of breaking and entering charges in which he stole panties from the bedrooms of girls as young as 11. Russell Williams, Top Canadian Military Commander, Pleads Guilty To Murder, Sexual Assault
Thus Rukhi – and she turned to abuse her clumsy little handmaiden for overboiling the rice and overbaking the coarse rye bread, for not tethering the donkey, and for breaking a new pot of spring water. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
The crew survived, but the aircraft exploded when its payload of munitions blew up breaking the windows of many local houses in the blast.
And coach Simon Jones was nonplussed by the record-breaking performance of the Australians.
The FACES Club, with its mandate of breaking racial barriers and promoting cross-cultural friendships, decided to participate in the carolling to raise awareness about what they stand for.
I found it especially heartbreaking to read these first-person accounts of the shootings at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville by LiveJournal users bekitty, writingjen, daughter of shooting victim John Worth, and her husband salvador-dalai via the UU LiveJournal group Chalice Circle. Philocrites: First-person accounts of Knoxville church shooting.
The expectation among the villagers is that the new model would serve as a path-breaking example for the rest of the country to emulate.
The Chinese have a tradition of breaking open the seed of brucea javonica and taping directly over warts and excrescences to stimulate their dissolution.
Andrew Gregory breaking into the church and hiding jewels in a closet he very likely knew nothing about?
If you give her a Nexium, then you're responsible if she has a heart attack," said the attendant, breaking out uncoated aspirin and sublingual nitroglycerin, which dissolves under your tongue and dilates the blood vessels so there's more blood flow going to the heart, relieving angina. A Flight Attendant From Hell
Last year, a record-breaking 100,000-plus visitors flooded into the showground.
This helps prevent them from drooping or even completely bending over and breaking their stalks.
The development of kinds of commercial hydrogen donor promotes the development of visbreaking technics.
Yes, 20 years of fantasies of breaking through that Vulcan reserve and being swept up into a passional Vulcan embrace. February 2007
His is one of the most frequent faces on the box: he has made a record-breaking 10,000 appearances on British telly.
I suggest you pick a few of your unhealthy eating habits, and give yourself a month to work on breaking those habits.
A toad croaked in the distance breaking the eerie silence that haunted the halls of trees and earth.
Not necessarily a ground-breaking assertion, but I'll bet there's more than a few folks out there who could use a walloping masterpiece of ethereal but hard-driving psychedelic garage rock.
After Gus (Giancarlo Esposito) threatened Walt (Bryan Cranston) and his family on last week's Breaking Bad, Walt decides it's time to make sure Skyler (Anna Gunn), Junior (RJ Mitte) and Holly are safely ensconced at Hank's house. Breaking Bad Sneak Peek: Is Walt Ready to Face His Consequences?
Through his narrative of the illumination, Rousseau mythologized the violence of breaking this mold as the liberation of self through the experience of accident.
I'd imagine this directly kills dozens of people every year who get the dosage wrong or misjudge the breaking strain of a rope.
This gland secretes digestive juices that help in breaking down foods.
It’s too bad that you didn’t take time to really read the message behind the company and why it was started instead of focusing on the fact that they are making some money now (although they weren’t even breaking even for several years before they got funding) from an idea to help other people and raise awareness for a cause in desparate need. We’ll sell you water… and then sell you a bridge « BuzzMachine
Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude! Henry Ward Beecher
This part of the building, the place where it relaxes and puts its feet up, is housed in a cantilevered steel and glass tower that seems to be breaking away from the main structure. James Murdoch's Sky scraper
By the ingenious means of using antimagnetic missiles Rhodan succeeded in breaking down the protective body screens of the Antis and invading their fortress. False Front
My main point, as some people have brought up, is that this is not a "pedophile crisis" it's not an "ephebophile crisis" it's not a "gay crisis"...it's a crisis with priests breaking celibacy in general. The "homosexualization" of the clergy in Latin America
Our testing in Denver makes me believe we're on the verge of breaking through.
She was at rock bottom. Her long-term love affair was breaking up and so was she.
The only Nickleback song I like is the one about getting feloniously drunk and breaking stuff. The Nervous Breakdown
It's just not worth the risk of breaking an axle or burning a clutch and endangering other folks.
The sole survivor of three chicks hatched by a record-breaking pair of ospreys has taken its first tentative flight from its eyrie in Kielder Water and Forest Park in Northumberland. Treetop CCTV captures the first flight of an osprey chick
With plans to add another 100 staff by April, it is on the cusp of breaking into the big league.
Talk about all hell breaking loose.
This is inarguably great art, but for now the lyrics are heartbreaking. Times, Sunday Times
Only if public order appeared to be on the verge of breaking down would the government contemplate restricting political liberty.
At one time, diabolical machines were devised for torture: from the brank, the brazen bull, and the breaking wheel to the heretic's fork, the instep borer and the iron maiden. Russ Wellen: What Is It with Men and Torture?
It attracted controversy for using the sound of breaking wind in an advert which parodied over-consumption.
The Times obit states he even tried electroshock, which is just heartbreaking. DFW THOUGHTS
Glass tinkled; she felt the impact afterward, the firm, cool glass, breaking through.
Further asset sales from breaking up ConsGold will put it in an even stronger position from which to launch further takeovers.
The film, in color, opens with a view from above of waves breaking on a beach; a distant mountain rises out of the mist.
The situation reached breaking point when his son crashed the family car.
Once, in the cold noon of a lovely day of frost, when the lightest step crackled with the breaking of multitudinous crystals, when the trees were fringed with furry white, and the old spider-webs glimmered like filigrane of fairy silver, they met on a lonely country-road. St. George and St. Michael
There is a little known secret in the book of relationships, filed under the chapter on breaking up and I am here to share it.
Following a hard workout, one runner was flooded with images of breaking capillaries.
Like the TNT, Winchester's 34 gr. bullet expands with explosive effect, breaking into almost sand-sized particles when fired into tissue simulants such as ballistic gelatin or even water.
She fell to the dirt like a doll, her arms breaking the fall painfully.
Vitamin E is an antioxidant that protects our cells from breaking down.
The rest comes from dynamical chiral symmetry breaking. Times, Sunday Times
They nodded to each other by way of breaking the ice of unacquaintance, and the first stranger handed his neighbour the family mug — a huge vessel of brown ware, having its upper edge worn away like a threshold by the rub of whole generations of thirsty lips that had gone the way of all flesh, and bearing the following inscription burnt upon its rotund side in yellow letters there is no fun Wessex Tales
It would be a bit unfair to offer clues right now, if someone is close to breaking the code.
Changing gears, the machine reversed and then turned left, breaking out onto one of the main streets momentarily.
According to jazz historian Leonard Feather, “Joe Marsala was responsible in his quiet and unpublicized way for more attempts at breaking down segregation in jazz than Benny Goodman.” A Renegade History of the United States
This was early Tharp, and pullulated with groundbreaking ideas.
Although Somerhalder doesn't believe that Damon will continue down his heartbreakingly vulnerable path too long, he does reveal it will become problematic. Vampire Diaries' Ian Somerhalder: Andie Is Damon's "Hot Beard"
The initial stages of training are not exactly kind but there is no other way of breaking a fully grown elephant.
He was worried that he might be breaking his contract.
And improbability without breaking out of realm of possibilities.
There was something involuted and heartbreaking in his friend's compassion for him. THE BROKEN GOD
This morning little knots of staff writers were talking to each other in low voices and then breaking off when I came by.
Lush jungle sweeps by at arm's length, breaking occasionally to reveal lakes, mountains and ships.
We are at the bottom of a chalk-pit, Mr Charles," answered Tom, "the fellows have played us a somewhat scurvy trick, but I cannot but say that it was better than sending us over the cliff and breaking our necks; howsomdever, the sooner we get out of it the better as I'm wet to the skin, and would like to take a brisk walk homeward to get dry. Washed Ashore The Tower of Stormount Bay
They're breaking them, their spirit, their minds, their psyche.
Bourgeois monetary relations were breaking down the old feudal ties that had existed in England and which had been grounded in a largely subsistence agricultural economy.
We have a HEAVY pine kingsize bed that pretty much fills the room, a backbreakingly heavy mattress and a three-door wardrobe that is just not going to be funny to move even an inch. Sheepdip Diary Entry
When two men spring their wives from prison, it goes so well they decide to make jail-breaking their business.
Sunderland may be challenging for promotion back to the Premiership, but the gulf between the two divisions was never more evident as Everton eased through virtually without breaking sweat.
Meanwhile, aids-de-camp galloped along the lines, announcing the arrival of Grouchy, to reanimate the drooping spirits of the men; for, at last, a doubt of victory was breaking upon the minds of those who never before, in the most adverse hour of fortune, deemed _his_ star could set that led them on to glory. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
The image most people have of a tsunami is a large, steep wave breaking on the shore.
Willow trees breaking out into buds foretell the coming of spring.
The groundbreaking technology, which is lightweight, low-powered and portable, is designed to provide roundthe-clock monitoring of patients. Times, Sunday Times
The more rapidly water gets into circulation, the more action of denitrifying bacteria in breaking down nitrate beds to increase the atmospheric nitrogen supply and the spread of plants to produce oxygen will be accelerated. The Case for Mars
The aim of the legislation is, in fact, the breaking-up of student ghettoes. Times, Sunday Times
In a groundbreaking new book that Publishers Weekly has already called "prescient" - Intellectual properties
Fund managers are constantly scouring the UK for companies with steadily rising earnings-per-share and smaller companies with access to ground-breaking new technologies.
He gave Edberg no chance of breaking him, serving four stunning aces and a massive percentage of first services.
He was publicly flogged for breaking the country's alcohol laws.
The council has not yet prosecuted any employers for breaking child employment laws.
After this heartbreaking experience, Thorpe turned to professional sports.
His methods were a contrast to the traditional way of ‘breaking’ horses by establishing the dominance of the human trainer.
Two of his fierce long range strikes almost succeeded in breaking the deadlock.
As the boy led her from the stable she came out with her ears laying back and her short tail switching; and I said to myself, "here will be a job breaking a kicker and balker. Twenty Years of Hus'ling
Montreal peace activists still can't stop talking about the record-breaking turnout of the Feb. 15 anti-war march.
Three in 0 Gauge - Stinger/Tsumani (1) MCR 200 amp H/O Alternator (2) Power Acoustik PCX 5 farad Capacitors Are you a big huge fan of ear blowing, eye popping, car alarm triggering, windsheild breaking bass? WN.com - Articles related to Jackie Chan wants kung fu as Olympic sport
This is not to say that making promises is unimportant, but rather that we accept promise-breaking in everyday life with more magnanimity than we sometimes pretend.
The situation reached breaking point when his son crashed the family car.
Messiah, his seductive arts and successes, the mass hysteria around him, his fall and the breaking up of illusions in destitution and new illusion, or in penance and purity. Isaac Bashevis Singer - Biography
Here are two fast breaking news stories to cheer the heart.
Ruth and Mona's Hindu-Jewish ceremony involved a chuppah, breaking glass, a three tier wedding cake, Vedic shlokas and jaimalas.
Then breaking the surface, one by one, the swimmers form a new line, a line that charges ahead like an angry serpent.
Occasionally the scrolls contain short cinematics _ for example I once sent a spy undercover into another faction's territory and there was a short video of him breaking into a storehouse and coming out dressed in the opposing faction's uniform. `Medieval II: Total War' presents the Middle Ages with flair
In Maoridom, a tapu area is considered sacred and holy and it is believed that anyone breaking the rahui will face spiritual consequences.
Breaking down the left side, Moen deked a defender and beat Khabibulin with a slap shot high to the glove side for his fourth goal. USATODAY.com
Most children his age should have been romping around playing, breaking prize possessions then denying it profusely.
The stories are heartbreaking, but the privilege of the briefest of glimpses of the lost lives is also revealing and inspiring.
Strings popped up and I was surprised there was nobody from Wales around me because they would be onside from a breaking ball like that.

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