Example Sentences
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Appeared in the February 14, 2026, print edition as 'When the Epstein Levee Breaks'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
Breaks in the action provided time for commercials and a scarcity of games made each a spectacle.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026
Breaks denied, not from cruelty alone, but from the unrelenting clock of the harvest.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025
“Ralph Breaks the Internet” co-writer Pamela Ribon, who also voiced Snow for that film’s epic Disney princess sleepover scene, doesn’t hit the high notes like Caselotti did.
From Salon • Mar. 29, 2025
A Storm Breaks “I’ll let her go,” I say.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
