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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:

The LAT breaks the story that former senior White House aide Harold Ickes has this week told federal investigators that he was in the same room at the White House with President Clinton when Clinton made telephone fund pitches to several Democratic contributors during the run-up to the 1994 elections.
The GOP wanted to cut poor people off the dole, but was ignoring the much larger sums that go to businesses in the form of tax breaks, direct subsidies, and regulatory favoritism.
The New Yorker 's Terrence Rafferty breaks with the consensus to pan Face/Off, calling it too serious.
.. The diagnosis was definitely coronary thrombosis, in which a piece of fat that has formed on the vein wall breaks away and blocks the passage of blood in the vein; the result, loss of blood flow, heart stoppage, almost immediate death.”
2) It breaks the stranglehold of bureaucrats and teachers' unions.