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Example sentences for: brakes

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

More to the point, if the economy grows any faster than it is now, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan will just slam on the brakes.
Hats off to Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Dominici, who is trying to put the brakes on the Republicans' heedless zeal to pass a tax-cut bill in order to provoke a presidential veto they can then use in the 2000 campaign.
It's refreshing to be reminded every so often that there is still at least one thing that can put the brakes on our warp-drive news cycle--the three-day weekend.
Screech of Bats and Brakes Answer
Similarly, no one really believes that raising the Fed funds rate from 5.25 percent to 5.50 percent is going to put the brakes on economic growth (although the gradual rise from 4.75 percent to 5.50 percent has to have had some effect).