break into

Example Sentences

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While those musicals were entertaining, the idea that someone just breaks into a song or dance was unnatural and sometimes ridiculous.

From The Wall Street Journal

Steve, I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.

From Los Angeles Times

Hubble observed K1 breaking into at least four separate fragments, each surrounded by its own coma, the cloud of gas and dust that forms around a comet's icy core.

From Science Daily

“Two, three, four,” Cummins counted down, and her eager little ensemble broke into song: “This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine.”

From Los Angeles Times

The Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Act follows Baroness Casey's findings that sanctions on breaking into stadiums were weak, and that tailgating should become a criminal offence.

From BBC