Words similar to break

Example sentences for: break

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

During an afternoon break, he tells a crowd of reporters that the day is useless.
Such gossip pales beside this "maundering," this reverie for which I am intensely thankful; for nothing so solaces me, calms me in the perplexity of life, and miraculously raises its burdens, as this sublime power, this divine talent for writing endlessly about hardly anything at all, & one should no more interrupt it, while it lasts than one should break the crockery in one's home and leave the shards lying on the kitchen floor for no reason.
Thus the genius of the death tax repeal proposal: Why not cloak a sharp cut in benefits in the soothing shroud of a tax break?
2. Saddam Hussein, who will ultimately break his vow
The WSJ terms it a "surprising break with the tradition of congressional support for military actions once they begin."