He flung his arms around her waist, hugging her so hard she felt her spine would break.

She leaned down and picked up an atlas, its pages ripped, the spine broken.

He stumbled, dropped into a chair as suddenly as if his spine had broken.

Her spine broke on impact, arms and legs splayed wildly.

About a hundred yards later, just as Joseph felt as though his spine was breaking, he met more troops coming in.

The dog howled with pain and thrashed, its spine broken, the banana peel lost.

I couldn't breathe at all now and my spine was breaking.

The three men heaved until they thought their spines would break.

With a soft crack the spine broke.

Someone had swept them off the shelves, and flung them all over, pages crumpled, spines broken.