brake off

Example Sentences

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Fuel duty has been frozen since 2011, making it hard to take the brake off now.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2024

When in town he’d often “just take the parking brake off the car and roll down the hill” for a cup of coffee — yes, coffee.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2017

When an immunotherapy drug turns the brake off, the immune system can sometimes shrink tumors in mere days.

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2016

It takes the brake off adenosine's natural inhibiting function.

From BBC • Jul. 9, 2013

And not long after that — mirror adjusted, brake off, blinker on, traffic clear — Ralph was pulling away from the curb, as solemn as a boy leaving home.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen