break away
Example Sentences
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Sam’s Club had long struggled to break away from Walmart’s budget reputation, making it difficult to reach coveted upscale shoppers.
Wall panels remind us of the Townshend Acts, the Tea Act and the Boston Massacre, all seminal events that led the Colonies to eventually break away from Britain.
It was played in the same year King founded the Women's Tennis Association, and three years after a group of players, dubbed The Original 9, broke away from the sport’s establishment.
From BBC
A large portion of the wreck was covered with enormous boulders, which had broken away from the cliffs that lined Antikythera’s shore sometime during the two thousand years the wreck had lain on the seabed.
From Literature
On average, two neutrons break away from each uranium atom that splits.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
