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the act of breaking away or withdrawing from
a breaking away from family and neighborhood
there was a breakaway by the discontented members - departing hastily
How To Use breaking away In A Sentence
- This part of the building, the place where it relaxes and puts its feet up, is housed in a cantilevered steel and glass tower that seems to be breaking away from the main structure. James Murdoch's Sky scraper
- Their salvation and future prosperity lie not in pinning their faith on American aid and aggressive military blocs but in breaking away from her, in repudiating her foreign policy which threatens to drag them into another war, and in proclaiming a policy of peace and friendship with other nations. Articles written by Nelson Mandela for Liberation, 1955-59
- Breaking away from the roofline of a condemned Gothic-style church, a goat-headed being with gray wings took flight, cutting from building to building in short trips as if it wanted to remain unseen. Crossed
- The passage describes the climactic moment in a football game, just as the halfback is breaking away for a long, broken-field run.
- Breaking away from brother Viri, the abbot crossed to where Darius lay.
- Finally, the charismatics serve as another group that manifests the Pentecostal impulse, but who stay embedded in their home denominations instead of breaking away.
- Fitzgerald pshawed, and pished, and poohed; and then, breaking away from them, rode home. Castle Richmond
- Usually the gemmae arise by the outgrowth of superficial cells, and become free by breaking away from their stalk. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
- It was about breaking away from hypocritical sexual values.
- She jumped and spun around quickly, breaking away from the grasp.
