breaker

Example Sentences

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If you have to evacuate, you should disconnect all electrical appliances or turn off electric circuits at the fuse box or circuit breaker panel.

From Los Angeles Times

There is no punting in touch football, but there’s always going to be a rule breaker who can’t help but punt the ball.

From The Wall Street Journal

The style Matthiessen conjures is almost visual, with fragments of scene description and lines of unattributed dialogue arranged on the page like solitary brushstrokes or like breakers of spume on the open sea.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Notwithstanding the imposition of circuit breaker restrictions, the decision-making in Northern Ireland was chaotic," it said.

From BBC

Both Wales and Northern Ireland put in place versions of a circuit breaker lockdown, while in Scotland stricter rules are imposed in the central belt.

From BBC