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:

I do not think Malcolm has ever seen a small child break the single-word language barrier and get hold of syntax, a fundamental breakthrough in language learning.
B. "Look for Larry Elder, the self-described 'sage from South Central ,' to break into the national talk radio landscape this year."
The latifundium on the Hudson, the Astor and Morgan relatives Eleanor enlisted to bankroll her schemes, the yearly visits to Newport (to which Eleanor was hardly, pace Cook, dragged kicking and screaming), the government and charity connections that allowed her Val-Kill furniture company to break even--what would Eleanor have been without them?
The zoo just opened and there's no one there and it's clear and bright and so quiet you can hear the seals break the water as they circle their pool and the gulls fighting the kept birds for their seed.
At that time, civil war threatened to break out between the city-state’s “haves” and “have nots” (an expression from ancient Greece).