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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."
To appease consumers without upsetting the business lobby, legislators would probably require overnight stays after brake and lube jobs.
Both papers mention that Net technology has served as a brake on inflation, but the LAT is clearer about why--the paper relates that Hewlett-Packard has saved more than $200 million annually by linking employees on an internal network and will shave 70 percent off its paper costs via making personnel policies and payroll forms available online.
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.
He picked up his brake (Brit. shooting brake) Brit. estate car, US station wagon from the parking (-lot) and drove home.