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Example sentences for "break away"

  • If you can't love me, I've got to break away!

  • If you can't love me, I've got to break away.

  • She started as he thus unexpectedly touched her, yet made no effort to break away.

  • The slope led gradually downward, the animals scenting water, and struggling to break away.

  • His one ambition is, to break away, and redeem himself.

  • The one Merry was holding made a desperate attempt to break away, but was prevented.

  • Virginia was not easy to break away from.

  • At the sound of the man's voice the horse Frank was holding showed every symptom of fear, making a sudden attempt to break away.

  • It would be easy enough to break away when he found it desirable; he would not worry his holiday with excess of caution.

  • And don't you think he was glad to break away?

  • He would take the first opportunity to break away, but when?

  • You are really going to break away to-morrow?

  • Whoever the fellow might be he evidently was convinced that his condition was desperate, judging from the wild way he fought, to break away, with the intention of bolting from the room.

  • It got caught around my arm, and I couldn't break away.

  • I'm going to break away, and you know where I'll be heading.

  • Next, outlying portions of England may want to break away.

  • The best party system is one in which the organisation is not too perfect, and from which it is comparatively easy to break away.

  • I know I did make an effort to break away, but the cloth was clutched closer about my face, and the assailant's grip hurled me to the floor.

  • You lied to me repeatedly, and now you want to break away from me at the last minute.

  • He stepped forward, grasping her hands, and holding them in spite of her slight effort to break away.

  • That's why Solomon White's fed up with the life and wants to break away.

  • I'm not denying the possibility that he wants to break away, but that's only natural.

  • Already even the minor members were making their preparations to break away.

  • With a jolly bonfire blazing on the bank, and the skaters going and coming all the while, the prospect is so alluring that it is indeed difficult for any lad to break away.

  • The rain had ceased, and the clouds were beginning to break away, but the air was still cold and raw.

  • Hugh, stop him, can't you; he's trying to break away from us!

  • He turned as white as anything, and looked at me as if it was on the tip of his tongue to say that he'd gone and hitched up with the man, and couldn't break away.

  • Hugh, I believe Cale is trying to break away; and I tell you--it's about time we stepped in to take a hand in the game.

  • One of Challis's slows, which he had left alone with the idea that it was going to break away to the off, came in quickly instead, and removed a bail.

  • At these words Harry stopped his struggles and Jim abandoned his efforts to break away from me.

  • Suddenly he would discover it was the outsider, and would cry out with fevered lips, and try to break away from us and run.

  • Time was nearly up when, after a break away, Paddy stepped back, gathered himself, rushed in, and swung his huge right hand with all the strength of his powerful body.

  • Jeffard hung his head and would have tried to break away; but Bartrow locked arms with him and dragged him whither he would.

  • Not going to break away now, are you, Jeffard?

  • I couldn't break away from it to save my life, and it stuck to me straight through to the finish.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "break away" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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