"break" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A snug sense of comfort stole over him, which was rudely broken, the next moment, by a chorus of piping cackles and coarse laughter.
- The quietness of a literary life was rudely broken by the French Revolution, to which he was openly hostile.
- The thread of the argument had been rudely broken, and the audience was restless and expectant.
- And then their somber silence was rudely broken by the thrum of harp strings struck badly for just that purpose.
- At her age--at any age--is such a tie as this to be rudely broken at the mere bidding of circumstances?
- When I left, the spell had been rudely broken.
- The dead heat of a still summer night was rudely broken.
- Their youthful demand for romance saw an innocent, artistic waif mishandled and rudely broken by a conventional and uncaring world.
- The illusion was rudely broken when Captain Styles cracked the seal on the simulator room.
- On a certain Tuesday the course of his triumphs was rudely broken.
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