Wondering how to use Break in a sentence? Below are 20 example sentences from real English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as change or separate.

Common word

Break in a sentence

Break meaning

  1. To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
  2. To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.

Synonyms of Break

change break up separate ruin break off stop break away split up terminate end interrupt pause fracture interruption give way

Break in Dutch

breken overtreden stukgaan kapotgaan kapotmaken stukmaken

Example sentences (20)

Human rights, break law, is break law, open and transparent now, Sure Brit speaking who worked in many ex-colonies.

If you want to focus on Break Effects and Break DMG, you should make use of Trailblazer (Imaginary) and/or Ruan Mei.

Some of these schools removed spring break from the calendar but added single break days throughout the semester.

In reality, Trump is like a juvenile delinquent: willing to break things just because he likes to break things.

I feel as though I say this every time, but I have never looked forward to a break more than this upcoming spring break.

Police are still trying to determine if anything was stolen during the break-in or during the subsequent break-in attempt.

A break isn’t going to feel like a break if it’s spent stressing about that essay that’s due in a few days.

The pack is called "Please Do Not Break Up With Me", and features desperate messages such as "Please do not break up with me.

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Murray found himself a set, a break and break point down, sinking to his knees in exhaustion after losing one 35-stroke rally.

By April 30th, early spring break counties had 20% higher confirmed Covid-19 cases per capita than late spring break counties.

Regardless of how you feel about the changes to the child tax credit, a tax break is still a tax break.

Perps break into cars, get arrested, get released due to overcrowding, break into cars, rinse, repeat.

The outlook for Sunday is mainly dry but cloudy, although clouds will break and some brighter or sunny spells will break through.

Spring break for New York City and Pleasantville will continue as scheduled next week, with remote learning resuming after break.

Apprentice Laridda will no longer assume you to be the bearer of bad (break-up) news if you didn’t bring her the break-up message.

A break from my buds I promise I’m not some old man who is against all technology, but I am an advocate of taking a break from it.

But on break, they’re in break mode, and we don’t want to overwhelm them with too many things to do.

The owner of Outrageous Audio is not letting a string of recent break-ins break his holiday spirit.

To her relief he took the tie‑break anyway, 7-4, after an overhead smash had secured a mini-break.

And that's a real break from the times and a real break with what most businesses aim to do today.

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Frequently asked questions

How do you use "break" in a sentence?
An example: "Human rights, break law, is break law, open and transparent now, Sure Brit speaking who worked in many ex-colonies." This page contains 20 example sentences with the word "break" from real English texts.
What does "break" mean?
Break means: To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
What are synonyms of "break"?
Common synonyms of "break" include: change, break up, separate, ruin, break off, stop, break away, split up. Plus 7 more synonyms.
What is "break" in Dutch?
"break" translates to Dutch as: breken, overtreden, stukgaan, kapotgaan, kapotmaken.
How many example sentences with "break" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 20 example sentences with "break", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.

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