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breakers

noun as in surf

Strongest matches

Weak match

noun as in white water

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Example Sentences

Like other barrier-breakers before him, Colfer suffered his share of doubters.

On just one day in 782, “Charlemagne ordered no fewer than 4,500 Saxons decapitated” because they were oath-breakers.

When you reach your goal, you get paid out of a common pool funded by yourself and other pact-breakers.

Others plan where to paddle into the surf off Black's Beach to catch a wave when the big breakers start rolling in.

The historian Michael Smith told the Mail that the work of women code breakers had only recently received proper recognition.

The breakers from the masthead, bearing south-east, distant eight or nine miles.

Beyond and around them the sea was smooth and to the southward another patch of breakers was observed.

The coast is fringed with an uninterrupted line of breakers.

After that, Jack was obliged to let go his anchor within sound of breakers, and his fight with death lasted all night.

The wise man, when the waves smile, ought to know how to behave; in the breakers he must go slow.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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