breaker
Example Sentences
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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.
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.
"This renewed attention to Syria is very important if it can act as a circuit breaker and unlock long-stalled efforts to move the political process forward," he told the UN Security Council on 27 April.
From BBC
When law enforcement and a Virginia Department of Transportation worker opened the breaker box to figure out the issue, they saw the snake in the wires.
From Washington Times
They also cut padlocks at the Elk Plain substation in Spanaway owned by the same company, with Greenwood manipulating breakers, causing a power outage.
From Seattle Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
