"break" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They were only very mildly successful, and broke up by 1981.
- In Jerusalem, the police used tear gas to break up a demonstration by perhaps 200 people.
- Water may break up rocks, too, simply by pounding against them, as waves do.
- The group was short-lived, breaking up by June 1995 after an argument over gas money.
- It broke up in 1976 by consensus of the band members.
- Work was underway to break up the ship by June 2011.
- Could he get it to break itself up by striking hard objects?
- The band went through some 37 members, and broke up by 1970.
- "I thought they were going to break this up by midnight," she complained.
- They had deliveries of ice every morning, which they'd also break up by hand.
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