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move away or escape suddenly
The horses broke from the stable
Nobody can break out--this prison is high security
Three inmates broke jail -
break off (a piece from a whole)
Her tooth chipped -
withdraw from an organization or communion
After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away -
interrupt a continued activity
She had broken with the traditional patterns -
flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
If you see this man, run!
The burglars escaped before the police showed up
How To Use break away In A Sentence
- The completed building is a towering rectangular block with almost no decoration, an austere statement and bold break away from the traditional methods of architectural adornment.
- The company wanted to break away from its traditional, downmarket image.
- —In autumn, with a great creaking and a snapping of twigs, they break away from trunks grown thick with bark and phloem, which become husks with jagged tips, or later often topple from sheer grief. 2009 June
- Mere mimicry, however, isn't the track's damnable sin, but rather a byproduct of the curious choice to break away from the electronic fidgeting that distinguished ‘A Whisper’.
- Each sibling feels the need to break away - Emma to follow her new dream of being an archaeologist, Blue to track down his elusive and by now vagrant father, whom he finds squatting in an abandoned warehouse.
- The company wants to break away from its downmarket image.
- They enjoyed a break away with their daughter Samantha and her twin girls Rebecca and Crystal.
- Glaciers can move and calving can occur, causing huge icebergs to break away and wreak havoc.
- He made a move to break away into the street, and I tried to grab him, catching the end of his shirt.
- The company wanted to break away from its traditional, downmarket image.
