9 examples of to rupture in sentences

About every twenty-eight days, one of the follicles swells, becomes filled with liquid, pushes or is pushed to the surface of the ovary, there to rupture and expel into the abdominal cavity the tiny ripe ovum.

But the efforts of the Catholic Church in the years following the Council to overthrow the French Republic and to rupture the new German Empire were sufficiently disquieting.

Sir, they wrong us who say that the South was ever impatient to rupture the bonds of the American Union.

You do not understand what it is to rupture a blood-vessel.

We protest against the verdict which finds expression in all sorts of ways and with various aggravations, that, in attempting to rupture our Union, and to withdraw from it on their own terms, at their own pleasure, the seceding States are but repeating the course of the old Thirteen Colonies in declaring themselves independent, and sundering their ties to the mother country.

The external forces acting to bend the bar also tend to rupture it at right angles to the neutral plane by causing one transverse section to slip past another.

A continual increase in deflection indicates an unsafe load which is almost certain to rupture the beam eventually.

When a dead load not great enough to rupture a beam has been removed, the beam tends gradually to recover its former shape, but the recovery is not always complete.

As in all tests on timber, the strain must be continuous to rupture, not intermittent, and readings must be taken "on the fly."

9 examples of  to rupture  in sentences