The tension seemed to break between my sister and me.

She couldn't seem to break away from the awful dream.

That one movement seemed to break his hold over me.

That seemed to break the spell, as they say in story books.

No waves seem to break under six feet in the winter months.

Then suddenly a light seemed to break upon his comprehension.

That seemed to break the ice a little with the agents.

The sound of these words seemed to break her very heart.

My mind seemed to break out of the case I had made for it.

The officials said that so far nothing they had seen on the tapes seemed to break any law.