brake
Example Sentences
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The lizards hadn’t even noticed the shrew hitting the brakes, nor was there any signal as to how Miel had known.
From Literature
Traders will weigh whether the risk in Iran is “genuinely defused or simply resting,” because calm in the Persian Gulf has a “habit of braking without warning,” he added.
From MarketWatch
Traders will weigh whether the risk in Iran is “genuinely defused or simply resting,” because calm in the Persian Gulf has a “habit of braking without warning,” he added.
From MarketWatch
I asked as the train’s shrieking brakes slowed us to a halt.
From Literature
I did have a couple moments coming to a stop when I could feel the friction brakes fumble the handoff with the regen braking.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
