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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:

If you’re going to join in, check the brakes and tires and make sure a strong lock is included.
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).
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.
Whenever wages start to go up a bit--God forbid, workers should see their salaries jump--Wall Street gets jittery about inflation and the Fed pumps 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.