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Example sentences for: breaks

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

There were new breaks in the Democratic campaign-finance scandal . The Washington Post reported that a mob-connected stock swindler had been invited to one of the infamous White House coffee klatches.
This higher consistency stems from that fact that, while nucleotide characters have only four possible states to change to and from, chromosome breaks can occur at many different locations.
A few days later, the news breaks.
What's really weird is you just know some of those agents are taking breaks from sifting through company documents and interviewing industry whistleblowers to go have a smoke.
2) It breaks the stranglehold of bureaucrats and teachers' unions.