40524 examples of breaking in sentences

We say that divorce and Sabbath-breaking are sweeping over our countrygambling, social drinking, and many other ills; a sensational press, a corrupt politics, a materialistic greed.

He had continued it for several years, with no intermission, except a short one, when he was engaged in breaking a young llana in the place of an old one, which had been many years a favourite, but was now in disgrace, because, as he said, he did not think it so safe for going down hill, but in reality, because he liked the figure and movements of the young one better.

And at that the tension of soul and mind on the Wolverine snapped, breaking into outcries and sudden, sharp imprecations.

Then, breaking his own rule of repression, he asked: "Did he come off the schooner with you?" "Picked him up," was the straining answer.

One of the slaves who had been left in the encampment, and had been among the first to see the approach of the Absians, went up to Dahir for the purpose of breaking the line by which he was hobbled.

This labour consists principally of breaking up the small stone found in the facings of the solid rock, for the purpose of road-mending and the like.

Here there are from one hundred and seventy to one hundred and eighty, principally young men, employed in breaking, weighing, and wheeling stone, for road mending.

It was her habit to take her breaking heart thus to the great masters, to interpret their thoughts in their music, welding their melodies to the needs of her own sorrow.

interrupted Steinmetz at this moment, breaking into the conversation in his masterful way and enabling Etta to get away.

Mobs gathered that night, nevertheless, but dispersed after burning a negro hut and breaking the windows of a negro church.

There was such a wreath of dust round them that we could only see the gun-barrels and the bearskins breaking out here and there, with the head and shoulders of a mounted officer coming out above the cloud, and the flutter of the colours.

There was a roar from the ditches, and a shout from the gunners, and we saw a rolling grey cloud before us, with a score of busbies breaking through the shadow.

Long lines of cliff breaking have left a chasm; And in the chasm are foam and yellow sands; Beyond, red roofs about a narrow wharf In cluster; then a molder'd church; and higher A long street climbs to one tall tower'd mill; And high in heaven behind it a gray down With Danish barrows, and a hazelwood, By autumn nutters haunted, flourishes Green in a cuplike hollow of the down.

He was a man of great gifts, with much that was most attractive and noble; but joined with this them was originally in his character a vein of perversity and mischief, always in danger of breaking out, and with which he kept up a long and painful struggle.

Some wild solemn poetry, marked by deep feeling and direct expression, is scattered through his letters, kindled always by things and thoughts of the highest significance, and breaking forth with force and fire.

J.H.N. was once reading me a letter just received from him in which (in answer to J.H.N.'s account of his work and the possibility of his breaking down) he said in substance: "I daresay you have more to do than your health will bear, but I would not have you give up anything except perhaps the deanery" (of Oriel).

A report or two of record-breaking diamond sales by Tiffany to the kings and czars of dollar royalty, then front-page news stories of clawing, mauling, and hair-pulling wrangles among the stage harlots for the possession of these diamonds.

My heart is breaking for you.

For fear of breaking the spell, I did not dare cross the room to close Beulah's door or to reach the outer door of my office, which was nearer hers than it was to my desk.

Sugar advanced with record-breaking total sales to 207½ and in the final half-hour carried the whole list of stocks up with it.

He began to speak: "Men of Wall Street: "You have just witnessed a record-breaking slaughter.

The breaking of it always induces a greater or less incapacity of taking food.

The room was so still that the breaking of a blazing log on the andirons was a pleasant relief.

My nerves were keyed to a breaking pitch and I turned upon him stormily.

The distrust, my shattered faith, my utter loneliness, could not weigh against the joy of hearing that laugh of hers breaking mellowly on the night.

40524 examples of  breaking  in sentences