How To Use Breaking off In A Sentence
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Probably by breaking off from a frame to do a quick poo in the corner of the auditorium.
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The fruit of the fig is about as big as a rounceval pea, or very small gooseberry; and each of them, upon breaking off the stalk very close, produces one drop of a milky liquor, resembling the juice of our figs, of which the tree is indeed a species.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13
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This morning little knots of staff writers were talking to each other in low voices and then breaking off when I came by.
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Ian is talking in a professional way about forward planning, organisation and continuity before breaking off.
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Breaking off a couple of pieces from the beignet, he tossed them in front of the optimistic pigeons.
Etched in Bone
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They are also having great fun, absorbed in what they are doing, breaking off only to fire insistent questions at their teacher.
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Sitting at A, I now began husking, breaking off the husks from each ear in three strokes, thus: With my hand I drew back half the husk; second, I drew back the other half; third, I broke the husk from the cob.
Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden
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The commander of the German task force radioed that he was breaking off the action.
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Grabbing a pitch fork she shoved it into one bale breaking off chucks that she spread out between the three ever grateful recipients.
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The commander of the German task force radioed that he was breaking off the action.
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So many riches, so many opportunities to astonish us, and yet Clarke insists on breaking off again and again to indulge in literary pastiche.
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Eventually the berg struck the glacier with only a glancing blow, nevertheless breaking off enough of the ice tongue that maps of the region needed redrawing.
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They returned fire before breaking off the engagement.
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They go over the interior surface of the walls, breaking off projections and filling up the interstices with small stones, and then they smoothly plaster the walls and the inside of the hatchway with mud, and sometimes whitewash them with a gypsiferous clay found in the neighborhood.
A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228
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At the 1952 Republican National Convention in Chicago, former president Herbert Hoover used a teleprompter to address delegates but lost his place after breaking off to extemporize.
Engineer's Device Eased Speechmakers' Minds
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Always avoid breaking off any of the small growth buds below the flowers when you are deadheading.
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The British government retaliated by breaking off diplomatic relations.
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The British government retaliated by breaking off diplomatic relations.
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But in Ac 28: 25 it is the breaking off of the discourse that is meant, here the final departure from the house [Olshausen].
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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But even Dobbin grated on me, following Amelia around like a puppy, neither asserting himself in regards to her nor breaking off his attachment.
All is Vanity « So Many Books
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He had a 100% blockage in one artery, probably caused by a clot breaking off from one of the two 70% blockages found on angiograph two stents placed during emergency angioplasty.
Carbohydrates are addictive | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
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The police officer was injured when he tried to keep a party reveler from breaking off the Mercedes-Benz logo of his patrol car.
Facebook Party Gets Out Of Control After German Girl Forgets Privacy Setting
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At the edges of Antarctica, where plains of ice spread across the ocean and float on it before breaking off, most of the icebergs are tabular - flat on top, horizontal in configuration.
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When you hear about islands sinking or oceans acidifying or a twelve mile long iceberg breaking off and floating towards Australia it raises some red flags.
Think Progress » Fox Thinks Winter Chill Disproves Global Warming; Experts Disagree
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They are also having great fun, absorbed in what they are doing, breaking off only to fire insistent questions at their teacher.
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Driving under the influence of alcohol, which increases the probability of traffic accidents, is a serious law-breaking offense.
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Thus, in the coloratura passages of Mozart's arias, I have always sought to gain expressiveness by _crescendi_, choice of significant points for breathing, and breaking off of phrases.
How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst]
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It was like mercury on a laboratory bench, running this way and that, breaking off here, regrouping there, and always deadly.
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If this, señor," he said, breaking off, "does not win the señorita, we will try -- what you call hem -- direct action.
The Desert Fiddler
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The PKK has dramatically stepped up attacks in Turkey since the movement's jailed leader, Abdullah calan, announced in May he was breaking off peace efforts with Turkey's government due to lack of progress.
Blast Shuts Down Turkish Pipeline
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Every now and then I could hear a big chunk of icefall breaking off a serac to our right and crashing down the mountain in the dark.
A Nature for the Great Outdoors
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The three performers exhort us to work, occasionally breaking off to do a backflip.
Times, Sunday Times
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She looked down in mild surprise and disdain before breaking off the shaft and holding it up to inspect it more closely.
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Just as I notice them, the formation splits, the outer ships breaking off in both directions along the line.
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The British government retaliated by breaking off diplomatic relations.
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The commander of the German task force radioed that he was breaking off the action.
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The three performers exhort us to work, occasionally breaking off to do a backflip.
Times, Sunday Times
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Breaking off the rims is a lot of work," Lucero said.
EurekAlert! - Breaking News
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The stern of the boat crackled and crumbled, finally breaking off and falling with an enormous splash into the ocean.
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Agresti remains true to his diminutive hero, never breaking off from his point of view in an attempt to over-complicate the drama.
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Take this to Father Domenico from me," said Dionea, breaking off a twig of myrtle starred over with white blossom; and raising her head with that smile like the twist of a young snake, she sang out in a high guttural voice a strange chant, consisting of the word _Amor -- amor -- amor_.
Hauntings
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Expert testimony at the trial showed that if Ford had put steel reinforcement in the roof as it later did in the 1980 and later-model Broncos to maintain “adequate survival space” and to keep the plastic section of the roof from breaking off, the three seat-belted decedents would have “walked away” from this accident.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
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The commander of the German task force radioed that he was breaking off the action.
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Through a process called autotomy, muscles can contract violently along the base of an appendage, breaking off the limb.
