breakers

Example Sentences

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"It's like building an expressway and adding speed breakers every few kilometres," says Bansal.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

Spring breakers looking to avoid the chaos at the nation’s airports are considering driving to their destinations instead.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

When the extension cords running to the back popped the circuit breakers, repeatedly, he tried to curtail electricity usage in the camp.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

He also likes companies linked to power distribution, switchgear, uninterruptible power supply, breakers and busways, such as Eaton Corp.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 29, 2025

He, wheeling once above them, screamed the hawk’s scream of defiant rage, and then shot on across the low beaches of Osskil, out over the breakers of the sea.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin