break off

How To Use break off In A Sentence

• It has many kerned letters which are liable to break off at the ends of the lines in an exposed position. The Uses of Italic A Primer of Information Regarding the Origin and Uses of Italic Letters
• The white flakes do not exhibit the true conchoidal fracture in such perfection elsewhere; nor break off in such delicious morsels, edged with delicate brown. Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses
• Avie looked down at her tray and started to break off a piece of her cookie.
• Break off a piece of dodder or "lovevine," twirl it round the head three times and drop it on a bush behind you. Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk
• Stress can also cause blood vessels to open too wide, allowing plaque buildups to break off and clog the arteries, according to Joep Perk, a professor of health sciences at Sweden's Kalmar University and spokesman for the European Society of Cardiology. Happiness may help your heart
• Alternatively, dip a toothpick or sliver of wood in glue and break off the tip in the stripped hole, then reinstall the screw.
• The cells would break off and could be seen floating in suspension in the tissue culture medium.
• Cassette doors can break off, spring mechanisms inside cartridges can be dislodged, or the entire tape cabinet may break apart.
• My poor niece and her sisters take up most of my time and thoughts: but I will not attrist you to indulge myself, but will break off here, and finish my letter when I have seen your new landlord. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
• Again, branchiae break off when the animal is fixed unless care is taken to relax the specimen first.