Thesaurus / give a break
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEY
Bacteria, when present in great numbers, give a uniform cloud which cannot be removed by ordinary filtration.
A MANUAL OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSISJAMES CAMPBELL TODD
Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour, and make a fat offering, and then give place to the physician.
Were you ever arrested, having in your custody another man's cash, and would rather go to gaol, than break it?
Finally, let me ask the general reader to put aside all prejudice, and give both sides a fair hearing.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORD
If you have any thoughts of influencing me or my men to join the regular Confederate army, you may as well give up the idea.
THE COURIER OF THE OZARKSBYRON A. DUNN
It was he who first said, If thine enemy hunger give him food, if he thirst give him drink.
SOLOMON AND SOLOMONIC LITERATUREMONCURE DANIEL CONWAY
Give not up thy heart to sadness, but drive it from thee: and remember the latter end.
But the Mexicans were not the people to give up their best province so easily.
He saw Gen. Braddock as he passed on to his defeat, and could give a succinct account of that sanguinary action.
THE EVERY DAY BOOK OF HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGYJOEL MUNSELL
WORDS RELATED TO GIVE A BREAK
- bail one out
- conserve
- deliver
- disembarrass
- disentangle
- emancipate
- extricate
- free
- get off the hook
- get out
- get out of hock
- give a break
- hold over
- keep
- liberate
- manumit
- preserve
- protect
- pull out of the fire
- ransom
- recapture
- recover
- redeem
- regain
- release
- retain
- retrieve
- safeguard
- salvage
- save life of
- set free
- spring
- unleash
- unloose
- bail one out
- conserve
- deliver
- disembarrass
- disentangle
- emancipate
- extricate
- free
- get off the hook
- get out
- get out of hock
- give a break
- hold over
- keep
- liberate
- manumit
- preserve
- protect
- pull out of the fire
- ransom
- recapture
- recover
- redeem
- regain
- release
- retain
- retrieve
- safeguard
- salvage
- save life of
- set free
- spring
- unleash
- unloose
- absolve
- bail out
- be lenient
- be merciful
- discharge
- dispense
- excuse
- exempt
- forbear
- get off the hook
- get out of hock
- give a break
- give quarter to
- go easy on
- leave
- let go
- let off
- pardon
- pity
- privilege from
- pull out of the fire
- refrain from
- release
- relent
- relieve from
- save bacon
- save from
- save neck
- spring
- absolve
- bail out
- be lenient
- be merciful
- discharge
- dispense
- excuse
- exempt
- forbear
- get off the hook
- get out of hock
- give a break
- give quarter to
- go easy on
- leave
- let go
- let off
- pardon
- pity
- privilege from
- pull out of the fire
- refrain from
- release
- relent
- relieve from
- save bacon
- save from
- save neck
- spring
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