Brake

//bɹeɪk//

"Brake" in a Sentence (26 examples)

Don't brake suddenly.

The Representative said he will put a brake on spending.

Press the brake pedal to turn on your brake lights.

The function of the brake is to stop the car.

The brake isn't working well.

The brake didn't work.

The brake stopped working.

We must put the brake to further trials.

John put his foot on the brake and we stopped suddenly.

Have you ever got in your car after a long absence and got the brake mixed up with the accelerator?

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She slammed the brakes when she saw a child run in front of the car.

You’re pressing the brakes too hard—try just squeezing them.

Auxiliaries and ancillaries are comprehensive, and include a Westinghouse motor-driven recriprocating compressor used for locomotive braking and general service air, two rotary exhauster sets for train brakes when hauling passenger or fitted freight trains, and an oil-fired train heating boiler.

Give the car a quick brake.

You shall kneade[…]first with handes‥lastly with the brake.

He was shooting, and the field where the [cock-fighting] ring was verged on the shooting-brake where the rabbits were.

It had been arranged as part of the day’s programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake.

A few moments later they heard the sound of an engine, and a muddy shooting brake appeared on the road behind them.

Auxiliaries and ancillaries are comprehensive, and include a Westinghouse motor-driven recriprocating compressor used for locomotive braking and general service air, two rotary exhauster sets for train brakes when hauling passenger or fitted freight trains, and an oil-fired train heating boiler.

Rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough, / To shelter thee from tempest and from rain.

He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone.

He halts, and searches with his eyes Among the scatter’d rocks: And now at distance can discern A stirring in a brake of fern […]

The bird, with its fellow in the break, drummed, and whirred, and to the misfortune of its species made its plumage seem a prize to them.

The farmer’s son brakes the flax while mother brakes the bread dough

Methods of applying pain were many and ingenious, in particular the ways of twisting, stretching and manipulating the body out of shape, normally falling under the catch-all term of the rack, or the brakes.

And all the people brake off the golden earrings […]

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