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
And then there is the petty humiliation embodied by the uniformed market guard hawkishly watching Ansa, as if she is a prisoner who, at any second, is about to make a break from it.
From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2023
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
I had to play along until I got a chance to make a break.
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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