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.
Before being let go, the Energy Department had hailed Brinton as a barrier breaker because of the nonbinary identification.
From Washington Times
“I thought, the power is on. Am I going to get electrocuted? Then I walked into the kitchen and heard the circuit breaker snap off.”
From Washington Post
Leach has tripped the breaker by plugging in a space heater, so students are often forced to bundle up for instruction.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
