breaker
Example Sentences
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There is no punting in touch football, but there’s always going to be a rule breaker who can’t help but punt the ball.
The style Matthiessen conjures is almost visual, with fragments of scene description and lines of unattributed dialogue arranged on the page like solitary brushstrokes or like breakers of spume on the open sea.
But they know that there are riskier, more lucrative projects, such as major plumbing repairs and breaker panel rewiring, that novice DIYers like me won’t want to tackle.
From Washington Post
The curfew mainly affects South Beach, the most popular party location for spring breakers.
From Seattle Times
There are no jetties to sweep out the piling sediments, or buoys to mark a channel through the breakers.
From Seattle Times
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