Break

If the vase falls to the floor, it might break.

In order to tend to the accident victim, he will break the window of the car.

First, marinate the tofu. In a bowl, whisk the kecap manis, chilli sauce, and sesame oil together. Cut the tofu into strips about 1cm thick, mix gently (so it doesn't break) with the marinade and leave in the fridge for half an hour.

His ribs broke under the weight of the rocks piled on his chest.

He slipped on the ice and broke his leg.

Can you break a hundred-dollar bill for me?

The wholesaler broke the container loads into palettes and boxes for local retailers.

Her child’s death broke Angela.

Interrogators have used many forms of torture to break prisoners of war.

The interrogator hoped to break her to get her testimony against her accomplices.

If I had called, and had answered me, yet would I not beleeue that he had hearkened vnto my voice: For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity

Colonel: See, gentlemen? Any horse could be broken.

You have to break an elephant before you can use it as an animal of burden.

My heart is breaking.

Two days later they transferred her to another prison to separate us. I broke. My life was gone, so I thought.

I’ve got to break this habit I have of biting my nails.

to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one’s journey

I had won four games in a row, but now you've broken my streak of luck.

Go, release them, Ariel; / My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore.

In July Alexander broke the run and went on tour, as was his custom. He believed in keeping in touch with provincial audiences and how wise he was!

After Camberwell he broke the play's season and brought it back in the autumn with a few revisions and a noticeably strengthened cast but without any special success.

The recession broke some small businesses.

With arts like these rich Matho, when he speaks, / Attracts all fees, and little lawyers breaks.

He that puts all upon adventures doth oftentimes break, and come to poverty.

‘I knew he was in some such low way—He broke did not he?’

With a few exceptions, stock prices tend to follow the overall market averages. When you have a market decline, therefore, many stocks share the same overall chart pattern. Prices break and go sideways for a period of time.

When you go to Vancouver, promise me you won't break the law.

He broke his vows by cheating on his wife.

to break one’s word

Time travel would break the laws of physics.

Out, out Hyæna; theſe are thy wonted arts, [...] To break all faith, all vows, deceive, betray,

Susan's fever broke at about 3 AM, and the doctor said the worst was over.

The forecast says the hot weather will break by midweek.

We ran to find shelter before the storm broke.

Around midday the storm broke, and the afternoon was calm and sunny.

Morning has broken.

The day broke crisp and clear.

The day begins to break, and night is fled.

Changing the rules to let white have three extra queens would break chess.

I broke the RPG by training every member of my party to cast fireballs as well as use swords.

On the hottest day of the year the refrigerator broke.

Did you two break the trolley by racing with it?

Adding 64-bit support broke backward compatibility with earlier versions.

to break a seal

I'm a riddle so strong, you can't break me

The cavalry were not able to break the British squares.

There are many places on the reef that break during the summer.

The Clouds are ſtill above; and, while I ſpeak, / A ſecond deluge o'er our head may break.

And from the turf a fountain broke, / And gurgled at our feet.

Let's break for lunch.

He survived the jump out the window because the bushes below broke his fall.

The newsman wanted to break a big story, something that would make him famous.

I don’t know how to break this to you, but your cat is not coming back.

When news of their divorce broke...

Herman's Hermits version of 'I'm Into Something Good' topped the UK charts and also broke the band in the States.

“If something breaks during the day, work hours up until the evening, we’ll cut in — if we’re in the middle of, let’s say, a magazine program or a podcast on tape or a re-air of the game,” Radovich said.

Like the crash of thunderbolts…, the sound of musquetry broke over the lawn, ….

His coughing broke the silence.

His turning on the lights broke the enchantment.

With the mood broken, what we had been doing seemed pretty silly.

As the last firing of the big guns begins to die down, the German light forces still fighting to the west begin to make their choices. Some break for the open sea; others run for the German-occupied coast; still others stand and die. A small group decide to strike their colors, in imitation of three of the larger German ships.

Things began breaking bad for him when his parents died.

The arrest was standard, when suddenly the suspect broke ugly.

His voice breaks when he gets emotional.

Conversely, as the emulsion breaks and the system returns to the original state, energy is released.

When the droplets hit a solid wall the emulsion breaks instantly forming a bitumen on the wall and thus a layer up to 1 cm thick can be sprayed in one operation without requiring drying in between.

He broke the men's 100-meter record.

I can't believe she broke 3 under par!

The policeman broke sixty on a residential street in his hurry to catch the thief.

He needs to break serve to win the match.

Yet when play restarted the Czech was a train that kept on running over Nadal. After breaking Nadal in the opening game of the final set, he went 2-0 up and later took the count to 4-2 with yet another emphatic ace – one of his 22 throughout.

Is it your or my turn to break?

Sir Reginald Wingate, High Commissioner in Egypt, was happy for the success of the work he had advocated for years. I grudged him this happiness; for McMahon, who took the actual risk of starting it, had been broken just before prosperity began.

And he played no favorites: when his son-in-law sacked a city he had been told to spare, Genghis broke him to private.

One morning after the budget had failed to balance Finanzminister von Scholz picked up Der Reichsanzeiger and found he had been broken to sergeant.

Not long after this event, Clausen became involved in another disciplinary situation and was broken to private—the only one to win the Medal of Honor in Vietnam.

The referee ordered the boxers to break the clinch.

The referee broke the boxers' clinch.

I couldn’t hear a thing he was saying, so I broke the connection and called him back.

The Baggies almost hit back instantly when Graham Dorrans broke from midfield and pulled the trigger from 15 yards but Paul Robinson did superbly to tip the Scot's drive around the post.

Katharine, break thy mind to me.

See how the dean begins to break; / Poor gentleman he droops apace.

to break flax

when I see a great officer broke.

to break into a run or gallop

c. 1700 Jeremy Collier, On Friendship To break upon the score of danger or expense is to be mean and narrow-spirited.

zero-width non-breaking space

The femur has a clean break and so should heal easily.

The sun came out in a break in the clouds.

He waited minutes for a break in the traffic to cross the highway.

Work commenced at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday and continued without break until 4 a.m. on Monday morning, in the course of which three shifts of upwards of 90 men each and three steam cranes were employed.

But the young activists of Move Forward outmanoeuvred the older party, and beat many of its candidates, with an imaginative, social media-based campaign offering voters a complete break with the past, and a different kind of political leadership.

Let’s take a five-minute break.

winter break, spring break

a weekend break on the Isle of Wight

I think we need a break.

But they marginally improved after the break as Didier Drogba hit the post.

lucky break, bad break

them's the breaks

Following the invasion of France by the Germans in May of 1940, the securities markets experienced a break in prices.

at the break of day

to make a break for it; to make a break for the door

It was a clean break.

prison break

No matter how much text you add above the break, the text after the break will always appear at the top of a new page.

Blackpool were not without their opportunities - thanks to their willingness to commit and leave men forward even when under severe pressure - and they looked very capable of scoring on the break.

The final break in the Greenmount area is Kirra Point.

One of the most popular summer breaks is just off to one side of the Ala Wai Yacht Harbor entrance, a spot called Ala Moana.

Cigar was distracted at the break and let his five opponents get the jump.

Perhaps it stumbles to its knees at the break, effectively losing the race at the outset.

Pampered jades […] which need nor break nor bit.

The fiddle break was amazing; it was a pity the singer came back in on the wrong note.

The effect was weird, because with that intuitive sense possessed by the African, every drummer knew exactly when the “breaks” were coming, and whole banks of bass drums would drop out precisely on the beat.

Crossing the break smoothly is one of the first lessons the young clarinettist needs to master.

34. Of the Registers of the Voice - All singers have observed that there are certain parts of the Vocal Scale where a break, as it is called, seldom fails to occur.

The point of division between the two vocal registers is most frequently referred to as the register’s break.

Boys should continue in their high voice, across the break to the lower range, and end up with a voice that doesn’t have a break (Leck, 2009).

"Maybe he will some day," says the Missus, and then her and Bessie pretended like they'd made a break and was embarrassed.

The smooth criminal on beat breaks / Never put me in your box if your shit eats tapes

Let the poppers pop and the breakers break / We're cool, cool cats, it's like that

Breaking heavily, now on a 1 in 39 gradient, the train makes as if to cross the Tamar at once, only to swing sharply to the right, […].