break it off
Example Sentences
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Since the handrail was free at the top and only one bolt remained at the bottom, why not just break it off?
From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2023
The first time I tried to break it off with Anna, I couldn’t work up the nerve.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2022
I talked through it as best I could but finally asked her to break it off.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2019
Ms. Dench says, sounding very surprised and recalling how Princess Margaret had to break it off with Peter Townsend after Elizabeth felt she couldn’t let the marriage go forward because Townsend was divorced.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2017
I run back from the edge to a dead tree, throw myself against it and break it off and drag it back to the cliffwall.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
