Example sentences for: breaking

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

  • According to the Chronicle of Higher Education , Rosemary Keefe Curb was one of three finalists for a job as dean of the college of arts and sciences until a local New Paltz resident acquired a copy of Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence , a book Curb co-edited that contains such statements as: "I've never been initiated into a coven, but I like to call myself a witch."

  • Breaking stories in the Middle East, Indonesia, and Washington push softer Sunday stories to the margins.

  • Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., contended that Milosevic "counted, at the outset of this, when he moved his forces into Kosovo, on NATO breaking up quickly--and quite the opposite has happened."

  • Inside eukaryotic cells there is a massive protein complex called the proteasome whose raison d'être is to remove unnecessary proteins by breaking them down into short peptides.

  • applauds her for "breaking the mold" by running for the Senate, and the New York Times complains that both her campaign travel and that of her Republican rival, Rudolph Giuliani, "are being subsidized--by the taxpayers in Mrs. Clinton's case and by private jet owners in Mr. Giuliani's."


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