Words similar to brake

Example sentences for: brake

How can you use “brake” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The story in today's papers that caused me to mentally brake to a halt was a front-page piece in the Washington Post by Alan Sipress about how the Los Alamos National Laboratory is now busily researching traffic patterns.
Since higher interest rates take months to restrain economic expansion, postponing a hike is like waiting "to brake a runaway car until it is a few feet from the cliff's edge."
He picked up his brake (Brit. shooting brake) Brit. estate car, US station wagon from the parking (-lot) and drove home.
A similar point is made in the Wall Street Journal 's front-page piece about the spiraling management problems at the leading HMOs: namely that HMOs are not proving to be a brake on the system's problems, but rather arenas that readily reproduce them.
When society makes an unnecessarily broad assumption that nearly all research with financial implications for investigators or their institution is potentially corrupted, a brake is placed on progress.