make a break
Example Sentences
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Plotkin, executive director of Temple Israel, said that as his office filled with smoke he decided to make a break for the exit.
From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026
Some Coupang users like Jang Ji-hee, 34, find it difficult to make a break with Coupang despite disappointment over the data leak.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025
What better time to make a break from that — and what better place to find a clean slate for it — than California, the new, the last horizon of that vanishing frontier?
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2023
San Quentin State Prison, an infamous maximum-security facility built in 1852 along the San Francisco Bay, is going to make a break from its past.
From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2023
Now’s my chance to make a break for it.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
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