fast-breaking
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Only men were gathered here, with women remaining at home for iftar, the fast-breaking meal.
From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026
The final sunset of Ramadan last week found me below a mosque in the Bronx, in a basement cafeteria, elbow to elbow with hungry Muslims awaiting that last fast-breaking meal of the year.
From Slate • Apr. 5, 2025
Plainclothes agents arrested Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University graduate student from Turkey, on a sidewalk Tuesday as she walked to see friends for the traditional fast-breaking during the Islamic month of Ramadan.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2025
Speaking to a group of young people at a Ramadan fast-breaking meal in Ankara on Tuesday, President Erdogan urged patience and common sense amid what he described as "very sensitive days."
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2025
By aid of the fast-breaking dawn, they could see the line of high, dark rocks, upon which the ship had met her fate.
From Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express by Pinkerton, A. Frank [pseud.]
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