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:

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."
But the Communists broke the alliance after Blum first failed to support the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and then — faced with financial difficulties — put a brake on the reforms.
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.
Like the Popular Front in 1936, the new government began with a quick-fire set of reforms — a broad program of nationalization, abolition of the death penalty, raising the minimum wage, and the introduction of a fifth week of holiday with pay — until the impact of the world economic crisis imposed a necessary brake.