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open with force
He broke open the picnic basket -
come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure
The bubble burst -
erupt or intensify suddenly
Tempers flared at the meeting
Unrest erupted in the country
The crowd irrupted into a burst of patriotism
How To Use break open In A Sentence
- The exciting discovery was apparently made when researchers were forced to break open the leg bone of a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil to lift it by helicopter.
- Break open the Pimms and get ready for five days of tradition, pomp and ceremony - and loads of rowing action.
- They used brute force to break open the door.
- He states, ‘Initially green, the husks turn black as they mature, then break open to release the hard, ridged nut within.’
- In one funeral scene, not only does the coffin break open to reveal the corpse, but also a black crow begins ominously cawing.
- That nutcrackers existed in prehistoric times makes sense: nuts were presumably just as nutritious then - and as maddeningly hard to break open without tools - as they are now.
- They used brute force to break open the door.
- You are to observe the winter method of fishing here, is to break openings like small fish ponds on the ice, to which the fish coming for air, are taken in prodigious quantities on the surface. The History of Emily Montague
- Short-term methods of storage are unsatisfactory because containers leak and break open long before the wastes are safe.
- And win they did, scoring first-period pins to help the Eagles break open a close battle with Daegu American and bag a school-first Class A title sweep in the Far East High School Wrestling Tournament. Stars and Stripes
