How to use "break" in a sentence

I don't want to break the knife, so I use a different part of the multi-tool

I push hard but the skin doesn't break

Why not find a hard rock and use it to break the boulder? There's one in a hole in the canyon wall above me

I can break my arm by using my own weight

Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it - break it, so to speak; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?

The great body of the people abide by the dry legal obligation in both cases, and a few break over in each

Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection

To those people in the huts and villages across the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them, help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right.

Inspector Abbeline arrived at 11.30 a.m., but he could not give the order to break open the door until 1.30 p.m

At 1.30 when the news came that the dogs were not coming, he told McCarthy to break open the door

The next morning, Fantine kissed her daughter goodbye and left for Montreuil, crying as if her heart would break.

He would also have to break his promise to Fantine about bringing Cosette from Montfermeil

Then, turning to his wife, he said, 'Quickly! Put out the fire!' While she poured water on the flames, the man broke the chair with his foot and told his younger daughter to break a window

'Because I thought it would be better to break away

You hear your new computer fall to the floor and break, and the burglar shouts again.

Do you know what I mean when I say cheat? I mean you use the little tricks, the fast fingers and the good memory, but you use it to break the rules of the game.

And then someone had opened the door, making the whole illusion break up

After thirty minutes, Apat was still jumping up and down happily, but Sala and Cham took a break and went to the cafe, where a drinks machine made special mixtures of juice and energy liquids.

Now, she was sitting with Niki on their lunch break, and thinking about the months ahead.

They're trying to break down the force field and maybe help some people escape."

"Well, Gran," said Sala, "maybe one day, when Cham comes out of the pod, and they've managed to break through the force field, we really will be able to go together

'She'll break up,' he said

Without success, Tina had tried to break him of that bad habit.

She glared at her tightly clenched hands again and found the strength to break her grip on the steering wheel.

Many were still in the communal dressing rooms, while other girls, already costumed, waited in the halls or at the edge of the big stage, talking about children and husbands and boyfriends and recipes, as if they were secretaries on a coffee break and not some of the most beautiful women in the world.

"I've got a break coming up in five minutes."

When Michael's break time arrived, a replacement dealer took over the table, and Michael stepped out of the blackjack pit, into the center aisle

"How long is your break?"

"Why would someone break in and leave without taking anything?" Michael asked.

Someone really did break in

And why would a first-rate burglar leave without taking anything? Why break in merely to write on Danny's chalkboard and to wreck the dead boy's things?

She managed to break the grip of fear that had paralyzed her, and she put her fingers on the keyboard

Give me a break, and I'll give you a break."

It could be an underground break on your property

Bruckster hadn't been able to get close to Evans when the dealer left the blackjack pit at the beginning of the break

The active poison itself had already penetrated the victim's body, done its work, and begun to break down into a series of naturally occurring chemicals that would raise no alarms when the coroner later studied the results of the usual battery of forensic tests

Ahead, on the left, a break appeared in the bank of snow that had been heaped up by the plows

She's going to tell me who helped her get into the labs even if I have to break her fingers one at a time to make her open up."

All I could do was hope that those defences would continue to break down.

After a lot of trouble, I managed to break into a pub and find some food and drink

He said that if you want to break your engagement, you can.'

'I can never break my engagement,' said Laura

Then, perhaps, he'll break the engagement himself.'

She told him he was free to break the engagement.