Use breaks in a sentence
Sentences ending with breaks
- Dinner at five, to bed at eight, up before daylight, and off to Dublin when the light breaks. [11]
- Every time I let him off, my conscience does hurt me so, and every time I hit him my old heart most breaks. [5]
- She isn't the kind that bends; she's the kind that breaks. [8]
- The sensitive plate has taken one look at a scene, and remembers it all, Every little circumstance is there,--the hoof in air, the wing in flight, the leaf as it falls, the wave as it breaks. [6]
- You might ride for me a few months-- weeks--days till the storm breaks. [13]
- Jist gits to de place whah de intrust is gittin' red-hot, en down she breaks. [5]
- Everybody in the county knows exactly when court sits, and when court breaks. [4]
- She had always been accustomed to think of others rather than herself, and her festal mood dropped from her suddenly, like a mantle of which the brooch breaks. [10]
Short sentences using breaks
- It breaks the record. [5]
- It breaks my heart. [5]
More example sentences with the word breaks in them
- You cannot keep your enthusiasms down, you cannot keep your emotions within bounds when that soaring bubble of marble breaks upon your view. [5]
- There is no voice like that which breaks the silence--of the stagnant hours of the night with its sudden suggestions and luminous counsels. [6]
- Pictures--it was all vivid pictures, that awful visualisation of sorrow which, if it continues, breaks the heart or wrests the mind from its sanity. [11]
- But I have trained him; and now it fairly breaks Mrs. Clemens's heart to hear George stand at that front door and lie to the unwelcome visitor. [5]
- It then breaks through one of these eyes by hammering with its heavy front pincers, and turning round, extracts the albuminous core with its narrow posterior pincers. [1]
- The billows of the great organ roared among the clustered columns, as the sea breaks amidst the basaltic pillars which crowd the stormy cavern of the Hebrides. [6]
- You can pity the bird which is shut into a cage too small for it, or the mule which breaks down under too heavy a load, and the cruelty which hurts them rouses your indignation. [10]
- It is said that many favorers of it will desert when the storm breaks upon them from the public press. [5]
- A look like that breaks the nerve. [11]
- But the best system breaks at political roulette sooner or later. [11]
- A woman may stand by a man who breaks the law, but in her heart she always has bitterness, for that the world shall speak well of herself and what she loves is the secret desire of every woman. [11]
- How malignantly he snorts, and breaks off short, and at once begins again in another key! [4]
- And when a proud creature such as our young lady breaks down as she hath done, 'tis clear as skylight there is something wrong. [9]
- Then the pike-pole, or the lever, reaches the heart of the difficulty, and presently the jam breaks, and the logs go tumbling into the main, while the vicious-looking berserker of the water runs back to the shore over the logs, safe and sound. [11]
- There had been no breaks in the walls, no side canyons entering this one where the rustlers' tracks and the cattle trail had guided him, and, therefore, he could not be wrong. [13]
- Well, a poor mortal in one moment of weakness breaks it. [11]
- The breaks grew more and more frequent. [5]
- They hang a man--which is a trifling punishment; this breaks the hearts of his family--which is a heavy one. [5]
- The moon got loose last night, and slid down and fell out of the scheme --a very great loss; it breaks my heart to think of it. [5]
- When it breaks loose it will have its way. [11]
- There were no logical breaks in the chain of their reasoning from past success with boarders in St. Barnaby to future success with boarders in New York. [8]
- But now new light breaks upon us. [7]
- No one can keep it up; it breaks the heart, I told you--it seems ages ago, now--how I missed him at Melbourne, and then chased him all over Australasia for months on end. [5]
- Again and again it has been fondly hoped that it was settled; but every time it breaks out afresh, and more violently than ever. [7]
- Now I say it ain't a-goin' to be more'n two hours befo' this wrack breaks up and washes off down the river. [5]
- This region, which is still shaky from fires bubbling under the thin crust, through which here and there the sulphurous vapor breaks out, is one of the most sacred in the ancient world. [4]
- The French Canadian is on the whole sober and industrious; but when he breaks away from sobriety and industry he becomes a vicious element in the general organism. [11]
- Here and there, in the south-west, an island of pines breaks the monotony, but to the north there is only the white silence, the terrible and yet beautiful trail of the Arctic. [11]
- As your father, I forbid you to entertain such ideas--(he breaks off, choking). [9]
- Each oracle denies his predecessor, each magician breaks the wand of the one who went before him. [6]
- What I have heard from your lips breaks every tie that time had knit between us. [10]
- As soon as he keeps his bargain, he can rely upon us; but when he breaks it, we are bound to no one but ourselves, and Santiago! [10]
- His heart breaks, he goes away to die in the woods, far from the cruel world--for he says, bitterly, "What is man, without manure? [5]
- These little breaks have an important meaning. [1]
- A herd breaks from the confusion and is driven like a whirlwind down the street, dividing at the Market House. [9]
- The great mistake follows the man, and, by a greater misery, breaks the misery of the bandbox; or the man himself, hating his captivity, becomes reckless, does some mad thing, and has a miserable end. [11]
- Whoever breaks the first window in the steeple, shall be victor. [10]
- Please alter the figures I named to thirty thousand dollars, if you will, and let the proposition go to the company--I will stick to it if it breaks my heart! [5]
- And here the excellent but anonymous writer of the Stuyvesant manuscript breaks out into a brave and glorious description of the forces, as they defiled through the principal gate of the city, that stood by the head of Wall Street. [4]
- But we have every reason to believe that the breaks in the series are simply the results of many forms having become extinct. [1]
- It always breaks down in experience. [4]
- But it breaks down in certain places. [11]
- You open a door, bright light breaks on your eyes, then two steps lower, and you are here with me. [11]
- But these breaks depend merely on the number of related forms which have become extinct. [1]
- Splits appeared in deep breaks, and gorges running at right angles, and then the Pass opened wide at a junction of intersecting canyons. [13]
- Don't cry so, dear, it breaks my old heart to see you, and think I've brought this humiliation on you and you so dear to me and so good. [5]
- It is ten days work, and unless something breaks, it will be finished in five. [5]
- If that fellow's dagger breaks he can kill his victim with those teeth, as a fox does a duck, or smash his bones with his fist. [10]
- It's the whole country that makes or breaks a thing like this; New York has very little to do with it. [8]
- I think it confuses us; for as a rule it applies itself to habits and impulses which had a far-off origin in thought, and now and then breaks the rule and applies itself to habits which can hardly claim a thought-origin. [5]
- As the door closes behind him a buzz of talk breaks out. [5]
- If I see, clearly see, that ladder leading from plant to man, why should I suppose it breaks off at me and does not go farther and farther? [2]
- Then that flood came which sweeps away the rust that gathers in the eyes and breaks through the closed dikes of the heart. [11]
- He has vision, but it is not steady; he has argument, but it breaks down just where it should be most cohesive. [11]
- His great heart breaks, he sells his hoard, he turns his mind to some field that seems unoccupied. [5]
- A spot sometimes breaks up into smaller spots, which still stand in their proper places. [1]
- If the cholera breaks out in America, a few months hence, we can't borrow or sell; but if it doesn't we must try hard to raise $100,000. [5]
- His tones were becoming lower and more serious; there were slight breaks once or twice in the conversation; Myrtle had cast down her eyes. [6]
- This has been becoming clearer and clearer to me all these weeks, but it breaks my heart to have to write it. [9]
- Enderby's face cleared, as the sun breaks through a mass of clouds and lightens all the landscape. [11]
- These little paths are full of pitfalls among the roots and stones; and, nimble as the deer is, he sometimes breaks one of his slender legs in them. [4]
- It is there, and it breaks out in rebellion as it did with the wife of Jean Jacques Barbille. [11]
- Nothing breaks up an author's progress like having to stop every few pages to fuss-up the weather. [5]
- I could not always do it if I tried, but I do not want to, for oftentimes it is better to let the speaker or reader go on continuously, although there may have been many breaks in the course of the conversation or reading. [6]
- It breaks me all up to see you cry like that. [9]
- He was puffing a cigarette, in the breaks of the song. [11]
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