Break off

She unwrapped the slab of chocolate and broke off a piece.

The bees came and found no one but the Woodman to sting, so they flew at him and broke off all their stings against the tin, without hurting the Woodman at all.

A chunk of rock broke off from the cliff face.

Both families want the lovers to break off any relationship they may have.

When the yacht had passed the man resumed the conversation that her appearance had broken off.

In fact I never said it; she eventually realised I was someone else, and broke off the conversation abruptly.

Our school doesn't break off until July.

Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.

“[…]Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it—but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone—” He broke off uneasily.

Ted's opening line, when Steve broke off for the deciding frame, was, 'Last night we put our clocks back one hour. These two stars turned theirs back to April.'