• He spent more than a month in hospital recovering from his many injuries, which included breaking both legs, his collar bone and jaw and he is still undergoing treatment.
• Unfortunately, she landed badly, breaking a leg and fracturing a bone at the bottom of her spine.
• The 18-year-old fell from the roof of Crumbs Bakery suffering extensive injuries by breaking both his legs and an arm.

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• In the ensuing struggle she bit the security guard, breaking the skin and causing reddening and abrasions, the court heard.
• It transpires that the snake had actually managed to bite through Ian's shinguards before breaking the skin.
• If I had done it only at a slightly different angle, it probably wouldn't have even broken the skin.

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• Right now, we've broken two bubble machines and have to buy a third one.
• However, in the ensuing minutes there was an argument, during which the sewing machine got broken.
• Someone broke the machine by jamming pencils in to it.

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• The consultant agreed I could have an epidural if I agreed to have my waters broken - seemed like a fair deal to me.
• Her waters broke as soon as she got into the ambulance.
• She was twenty-six weeks pregnant when her waters broke on Friday, December 7.

• They broke the safe in the Accounts Section and made away with the day's receipts.
• If a burglar breaks the safe and steals the guns, I won't be held responsible for their criminal use because I did what I reasonably could to secure them.

• I haven't got any change, and I don't want to break a fiver.
• Most of us are more inclined to break a note than fish around trying to find the right change.
• Like my sister said, once you break a twenty the rest just disappears.

• The ref was not between the fighters but he was instructing them to break.
• He possibly could have cautioned him for holding and hitting as well, or he could have simply ordered them to break.
• He said the first damaging blow came after the referee had told them to break and stop punching.

• Ronnie O'Sullivan breaks to get the final underway but the opening frame proves a scrappy affair lasting half-an-hour.
• He breaks and sits down without looking where the balls have spread.

• We opened with the Canadian National Anthem and our Scout and Venture Leader broke the flag to open the festivities.
• I even broke out the sail for a few minutes until I got bored and switched back to paddling.

• We have a large exhibit on World War II cipher machines and the machines that broke the enemy's codes.
• When all the analyses were ready, the code was broken.
• Then you have to spend time breaking the code and making your own key, which only lets you hotwire the vehicle.

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• The former husband emerged as the most promising suspect after the detectives were able to break his alibi.
• But analysis of soil in his trouser cuffs broke his alibi and clinched the case.

• ‘Melissa,’ said Matthew breaking the silence and speaking for the first time since the fight had started.
• She felt it was her job to break the silence between the two.
• A father of two has broken his silence after keeping his sighting of a ghost 15 years ago at Woodville Halls Theatre a fearful secret.

• The newspapers reported that some passengers were breaking their journey at Earl's Court just to ride the escalator.
• He has a house in Burgundy, about halfway between Tuscany and England, and it was agreed to break the journey there.
• I broke my journey several times.

• Parliament didn't exactly clean off their desks before they broke for summer recess last Friday.
• By the time Council finally passed an operating budget and broke for recess in late June, more than a few players lay injured on the field.
• They last met on August 7 when the fourth round of six-way talks broke for a recess.

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• The move was so unexpected that he lost his balance, and threw his arm out to break his fall.
• She fell to the dirt like a doll, her arms breaking the fall painfully.
• My right arm went out to break my fall and I ended up landing right on my shoulder.

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• By bouncing, the reed breaks an electrical circuit.
• If either voltage or current is too big you could break the circuit.
• A switch works by breaking the circuit, which stops the current.

• Really wanting to break this bad habit is the first step to stopping.
• The Canadian Cancer Society is urging smokers trying to quit to plan out how they are going to break their habit.
• We would have to break old habits that perhaps were once useful, but don't serve their purpose anymore.

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• The film broke box-office records and won seven Academy Awards.
• The films, too, have proved a hit with an older audience, breaking box-office records for a foreign film.
• Irish cinema-goers are breaking box-office records, according to new research.

Synonyms

• She resists the urge to break her diet.
• I didn't realize Vikki wasn't willing to break her healthy habits and was unable to convince her to share fish 'n chips with me.
• It is no wonder that winter time is when most people break their exercise routines, start unhealthy eating habits and gain weight.

• Her control broke and she hit him hard across the face.
• The words died on her tongue, and all of her well-trained control broke.
• Once in his room, Tony's fragile control broke, tears quickly blinding him.

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• They know that this could break the movement and we are afraid that it will work.
• The bourgeoisie are agreed that the only solution is a dictatorship that crushes and breaks the workers' movement.
• Government indifference and racist violence did not break the movement - in fact it radicalised it.

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• Worse still, soldiers were used to break strikes: workers and peasants were set to fight one another in the clothes of striker and soldier.
• It was also utilised to break strikes by workers agitating for better working conditions and wages.
• Workers established the picket in order to prevent the company breaking the strike with replacement drivers.

• The hot spell had broken and now the weather was bearable again.
• The heatwave broke and it was gorgeous running weather this morning.
• The hot weather has definitely broken and it's jumpers before sunset, but only just before.

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• A mild thunderstorm has just broken out over west London, minutes after I got home.
• On the way to the airport, a colossal thunderstorm broke.
• A huge thunderstorm broke over St. George's early this morning.

• When day broke, the summer dawn could not penetrate the leaden gloom above the city.
• Dawn was breaking as Marie rose from her first restful night's sleep in two weeks.
• Dawn was a few hours away but when the day broke he knew his cover wouldn't last for long.

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• These build and swell into clouds, suddenly breaking apart and dispersing unexpectedly.
• The grey, looming clouds began to break apart and the blue sky of winter slowly began to show.
• The clouds broke apart and never dropped their rain.

• Even in calm seas, the waves breaking over a reef are dangerous.
• Turning his face towards the sea, he watched the low waves breaking on the sea wall.
• His pace was brisk and he did not seem to appreciate the music of the sea waves breaking against the parapet.

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• At that point her voice broke and her emotions took control.
• His voice broke as he fought back emotions to tell an Old Bailey jury of the boy's last words.
• She'd called me up, her voice breaking and shaking, I could tell she was hurt.

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• He turned professional at the age of 12 but had to ‘retire’ when his voice broke at 16.
• He was now 14, and his voice was breaking.
• What I didn't reckon on was that this hormonal upheaval was also going to result in my voice breaking.

• Breaking of a short vowel gives a short diphthong.
• There is a considerable variation in breaking between different dialects and different generations of speakers.

• What traders want to confirm is that the price is indeed falling and will break back through the upper trendline.
• The latest bear market is now in its ninth week, while the Dow has broken well below its post-11 September trough.

• Referring to fatal accidents Chief Supt Carey added: ‘I have dealt with several fatal accidents and nobody can imagine what it is like having to break such terrible news to a family.’
• I was just about to break the terrible news to her when her cat strolled casually around the corner of the house.
• In an interview, she said doctors broke the news to them last week that their two-month-old tot Harvey had been born with a rare condition that means he will face a lifetime of darkness.

Synonyms

• This is done by twisting the wrist at the moment of delivery so that the ball breaks when it strikes with the pitch.
• How much the ball breaks will often depend on the kind of pitch it is.

• From a Korean free-kick on the right, the ball breaks to Lee on the edge of the box.
• The ball breaks to Owen on the left of the Argentinian box.
• The ball broke among a swarm of backs and forwards.

• This represented a break with 1900 years of complete Christian consensus.
• In a break with tradition, the Welsh Rugby Union has decided to make tickets for Six Nations matches available to the general public via their internet site.
• We may need to make a break with the past and with past evidence.

• The weather remained gloomy, with small breaks of sunshine.
• After a week of waiting, there was a break in the weather.
• Everywhere, the streets were filled with people, enjoying — at last — a break in the rain.

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• In particular, he had to decide how to sequence the stories and ads on any given page, and when to put in line breaks.
• How many page breaks can exist in a chapter?
• He has made a fairly close, but not exact, approximation of page breaks, and preserved the numbering system fairly well.

• I picked up on the urgency in her voice, detecting emotional breaks.
• There was a break in her voice as if she were going to burst out crying.
• There was a break in his voice when he bade farewell to the reporters.

• A switch is a break in the circuit that stops the electrons from flowing.
• The break in the electric circuit had not been closed by pressure on the trip wire.

• The 22-year-old crawled back to 3-4 with a service break in the seventh game.
• The final set was decided by a single break of serve in the ninth game, achieved with a spectacular running forehand down the line.

• A moment later, the break bell rang.
• Infant teachers who read it aloud in class were begged to continue when the bell rang for break.
• Just as she began to mull over this new development, the bell rang for first break.

• While the number of Irish holidaymakers enjoying short breaks or full-week stays in the region was up, there was a drop-off in visitors from abroad.
• I know that people travel from far and wide to enjoy short breaks and long holidays in our beautiful and historic city.
• People are taking shorter holidays so city breaks are more popular.

Synonyms

• The song, with the addition of a long instrumental solo break, drove the lyrical quality of the song to the heart.
• Tracks on the album tend to feature brief lyric verses interspersed with longer instrumental breaks.

• When local residents expressed concern after the prison break, the company simply shrugged it off.
• Up to this point, two-thirds of the way in, the focus of the film was the actual prison break.

• If you play it for a few hours, and if you develop some consistency in your break, your scores will improve greatly.
• He tied the match anew at 7-7, but failed to pocket on his break in the 15th rack.