break the spirit
Example Sentences
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“They’ll know if a team is trying to break the spirit of the rule,” Sword said.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2023
"We will not let those names that you called us - 'hooligans, vigilantes' - break the spirit of the community who are fighting for what's rightfully theirs," she tells me.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2022
Dueker said that’s one more item to break the spirit of police officers who bring the cases to court.
From Fox News • Aug. 3, 2021
The odds against that in countries such as Romania, to say nothing of Syria or South Sudan, are steeper, creating equivocations that over time become so inured that they break the spirit.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2017
The men have been living on mess pork and 'salt-horse' for weeks, and both the meat and the half-baked dough served to them for bread are enough to break the spirit even of veteran soldiers.
From A Captain in the Ranks A Romance of Affairs by Eggleston, George Cary
