break off

Example Sentences

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Then, in March, it agreed to break off its condiment and cooking-product business and combine it with McCormick, the spice company.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

As the trees break off or fall, the downed logs become food and cover for earthbound species and eventually decay into nutrients in the soil.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2025

"This enables us to measure the many different types of waves that are generated after icebergs break off," says lead author Dominik Gräff, a UW postdoctoral researcher affiliated with ETH Zurich.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2025

The pair were later pictured together in Central Park in New York in December 2010 in a meeting Andrew claimed in his 2019 Newsnight interview was to break off their friendship.

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2025

Kids would break off and cluster into their cliques and groups.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah