The heat had finally broken and a breeze had picked up.

Of course, the heat will break, and our mutual antipathy with it.

Just before sunset the heat broke in a spectacular thunderstorm.

"Call again at the end of the month," assistants say - meaning once the heat has broken.

In the seventh inning, the heat broke just enough to convince us we could get some sleep.

Intense heat from the fire broke the plate-glass windows in the buildings on the opposite side of the street and did other damage.

Unfortunately, heat won't break the stuff down or boil it out.

When the heat broke late last week in the Northeast, it did so with a stiff wind out of the north.

The heat broke on Sunday evening, but the week had left reryone drained.