break the spirit
Example Sentences
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“I just hope this doesn’t break the spirit of other young Black people who want to do positive things in their communities. Some of us have to stay here and fight.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2022
"We will not let those names that you called us - 'hooligans, vigilantes' - break the spirit of the community who are fighting for what's rightfully theirs," she tells me.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2022
Dueker said that’s one more item to break the spirit of police officers who bring the cases to court.
From Fox News ● Aug. 3, 2021
The odds against that in countries such as Romania, to say nothing of Syria or South Sudan, are steeper, creating equivocations that over time become so inured that they break the spirit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2017
They felt intensely silly and ashamed, though, for they could not break the spirit of the girl.
From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore
