break the spirit
Example Sentences
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Yankee Stadium public address announcer Paul Olden began a brief pregame ceremony by calling the attacks “an unsuccessful attempt to break the spirit of our great nation.”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 11, 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
It is in allusion to this feature in the human character, that we have an expressive phrase in the English language,—"to break the spirit."
From Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author by Godwin, William
