breaker

Example Sentences

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“He would hurl himself straight as an arrow right into the great roaring grey wall of an oncoming breaker and go clean through it as if it had neither weight nor momentum.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The ship was cruising past the breakers where the Black Rocks met the reef.

From Literature

I would recognize those navy blue wind breakers anywhere.

From Literature

“For most of the past decade, megacap tech earnings functioned as the market’s circuit breaker,” he wrote in a Saturday note.

From MarketWatch

I wish I could just turn to her and say, “Look, Lizzie, I’m a cryptanalyst. A code breaker. It’s all very hush-hush.”

From Literature