Sentences with brake

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The brakes began locking.
He heard tires squeal as the car braked to avoid a collision. [VERB]
If you want to slow down a vehicle, or stop, you put on the brakes or apply the brakes.If you want to slow down a little, you can tap the brakes, squeeze the brakes, or touch the brakes.If someone is traveling fast and they suddenly put on the brakes, you can say that they slam on the brakes or hit the brakes.If someone presses and releases the brakes repeatedly, you can say that they pump the brakes.
Illness had put a brake on his progress. [+ of]
The brake pedal
A pump brake
He heard tires squeal as the car braked to avoid a collision.She was forced to brake sharply as the other car cut in front of her.He braked to a halt and switched off the ignition.
The glass broke on the floor.
She pulled too hard and the string broke.
The knob broke off in his hand.
The television set broke this afternoon.
War broke over Europe.
She broke into song. When they entered, a cheer broke from the audience.
His face broke into a smile.
He broke away from the arresting officer. She finally broke away from her parents and got an apartment of her own.
The pass receiver broke for the goal line.
The hunters broke through the underbrush.
A blood vessel broke in his nose. The blister broke when he pricked it.
Don't break in on the conversation. Let's break for lunch.
A deer broke into the clearing. A rash broke out on her arm.
The day broke hot and sultry.
The storm broke.
The weather broke after a week, and we were able to sail for home.
After years of hardship and worry, his health broke.
He broke under questioning.
Her heart broke when he told her that he no longer loved her.
After his voice broke, he could no longer sing soprano parts.
His voice broke when he mentioned her name.
The waves broke on the shore.
The ball broke over the plate.
The horses broke fast from the gate.
The fighters fell into a clinch and broke on the referee's order.
The story broke in the morning papers.
They broke camp at dawn and proceeded toward the mountains.
He played poker all night and broke even.
To break ground for a new housing development.
It breaks my heart to hear you are leaving me.
He didn't show up again? Oh, give me a break!
There was a break in the window.
The break in the wall had not been repaired.
A break for freedom.
When the rain lessened, I made a break for home.
Abstract painters made a break with the traditions of the past.
They noticed a curious break in his voice.
Sorry to hear about your bad luck, but I guess those are the breaks.
The actors took a ten-minute break from rehearsal.
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 clean break.
The farmer's son brakes the flax while mother brakes the bread dough
He broke a vase.
She broke her promise.
To break off friendly relations with another country.
He broke his leg.
To break the skin.
The bleating of a foghorn broke the silence. The troops broke formation.
His touchdown run broke the tie. She found it hard to break the cigarette habit.
She had to break the set to sell me the two red ones I wanted.
She broke a dollar bill into change. The prism broke the light into all the colors of the rainbow.
The stone broke the surface of the water.
To break jail.
He never broke 200 in bowling or 80 in golf.
He broke the good news to her at dinner.
The police needed only a week to break that case.
She almost broke a blood vessel from laughing so hard.
To break a watch.
She broke the blister with a needle.
They threatened to break him if he didn't stop discounting their products.
They broke him by the threat of blackmail.
His arm broke the blow.
To break a horse.
They will break the story tomorrow.
He broke a curve over the plate for a strike.
The FBI broke his alibi by proving he knew how to shoot a pistol.
They were going to break the sales campaign with a parade in April.

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