In Africa, personal contacts often break through bureaucratic barriers.

But how, the Martian wondered when contact had broken?

She turned aside once more, was swallowed by a doorway, and contact broke.

Young girls want to make contacts to break into the fashion, and they have to pay a toll.

The force field was down, with a dim blue spark showing as contact broke.

It was all finished in a moment, and Talia felt the contact between them break.

There was only a whispering, as of a faint wind, before the contact broke, the visitor vanished.

When exiting the plane, one of his wings made contact and a piece broke away.

The contact between them broke like a twisted cable under too much tension.

This usually suffices to cause the contacts to make and break when they should.