break bread
Have a meal, eat. For example, It's hard to remain enemies when you've broken bread together. This term occurs in numerous places in the New Testament, where it sometimes means to share bread and other times to distribute food to others. In later usage it came to refer to the sacramental bread of Communion in Christian services. The latter survives in the spiritual hymn, “Let Us Break Bread Together.” [1300s]
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How to use break bread in a sentence
One in which social conservatives are pro-family enough to break bread with gays who are pro-family.
Hollister asked him, not only as a matter of courtesy but with a genuine feeling that he wanted this man to break bread with them.
The Hidden Places | Bertrand W. SinclairWe have made a vow, and that vow is recorded in heaven, that we will meet together every first day of the week to break bread.
Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler | Pardee ButlerThe disciples met to break bread on the first day of the week—Sunday (Acts 20:6, 7).
Around Old Bethany | Robert Lee BerryFifteen persons to greet my landlady on Christmas Day, and not a soul to break bread with me!
If you are not a little more careful of your words I may never break bread with you again.
Mount Royal, Volume 3 of 3 | Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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