Jam waved her hand to get Ube’s attention, breaking off his conversation with Redemption. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Chuck yelled, the slightest hint of his old self breaking through. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

‘There is great peril here, said the Queen. “The whole palace is breaking up. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Everything inside her concentrated on breaking out of whatever was holding her fast. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

So there’s always a rough patch at the beginning of the year when I’m breaking them in. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I told you, he doesn’t hate you. He’s just scared of breaking the rules and being punished.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Such a shame,” he said, and I got the feeling that he really meant it, that wed be breaking his heart if we went. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

For a second I dared to take my eyes off the road and glance at the speedometer to make sure I wasn’t breaking the law. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As the meeting was breaking up, a white reporter for the Morning Herald asked to speak to the mayor alone. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She decided she didn’t want to start right off the first day, breaking the rules. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Did her sister also have a real self concealed behind a breaking wave, and did she spend time thinking about it, with a finger held up to her face? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The steps are breaking under my feet and he's howling in rage behind me, his hands are scrabbling at my ankles and for just a second he has me. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Since there weren’t many flag-pole skaters and since this one was by far the best, he had for the last year gone about breaking his own world’s record. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to her history of the alphabet, she started another book—a manual on code breaking for teens. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Presently, Alex is thinking about breaking his nose with the coffee percolator. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t breaking and entering. It’s just entering, because there’s an unlocked door.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Everyone discouraged my grandmother from breaking off her marriage. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“You told me my daughter was breaking the dress code. Show me that in this here book. Go ahead, show me.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

"Do you have information for me? Perhaps you know somebody who is breaking the law? A neighbor or relative or teacher, perhaps? Something you've overheard? Some suspicious activity?" The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, dude. I’m really sorry,” he croaked, voice breaking. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

If she agreed with me that a rule was stupid, she wouldn’t punish me for breaking it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I tried to smile back, but inside I was breaking apart. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But he couldn’t see anything breaking the surface. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Hello, darlings!” she said, breaking into a smile. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“If he wants to be the man of the house, he’s going to have to stop biting his nails,” Mami says, breaking the tense silence that follows such remarks. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Riding it was like breaking in new shoes—while running for your life. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The snow was thick, but Joseph was breaking a path through it, so it slowed him down more than me. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

They chased her to the end of the pier, and without breaking her stride the woman bounded up a set of crates and took a flying leap over the water, arms outspread like wings. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

One day, he urged his squad to design a distinctive banner that would stand out among the others, even though it was breaking the rules. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I open the privacy casing, breaking the seal. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

One expert, an authority on how much structural strain a steel tank could bear before breaking apart, was on the witness stand for more than three weeks. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

By breaking messages like these, Elizebeth swiftly proved her value to the Coast Guard. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I was honored to be acknowledged for breaking barriers in sport, as the first Muslim woman to represent the United States in international competition, but I hadn’t even qualified for the Olympics. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The clouds were still thick, but they were breaking, and pale strips of blue appeared between them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Hummocks rose from the ground like the backs of great subterranean beasts breaking the surface, yawning black mouths leading down to cool and cavernous storerooms below. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It rushed out of him like water breaking banks. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Too tired to fuss with supper, I ate a bowl of graveyard stew, breaking up chunks of bread and covering them with warm milk and molasses. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I was flipping through a worn copy of a Mike Hammer mystery when I heard screaming and glass breaking. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A name for whites who rode through the night in the ante bellum South, breaking in doors and beating and otherwise torturing black people. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Nancy had been reasonable—• at any rate, she had not argued—and now, before saying good night, Mr. Clutter secured from her a promise to begin a gradual breaking off with Bobby. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Santry encouraged her to talk at length about her work and the science of code breaking. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Immediately the volunteers surged through the gates, thus breaking the law. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The FBI had been quick to claim full credit in the newspapers for capturing South America’s spies, as well as for breaking the Doll Woman’s codes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

All day we sat there in the rain breaking stones, and for the whole of that week, and Nathan grew neither better nor worse. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ice pack surrounding the continent had been particularly heavy that year, and it wasn’t breaking up as quickly as usual. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“Wait! Grandma says that bending rules isn’t that different from breaking them if the rules matter. Are you going to get in trouble with the Time Bureau when you get home?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

His first month at camp was spent knocking over rows of weapons, breaking chariots, and tripping entire cohorts as they marched. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Do you mean to tell me you can’t prevent two children from breaking in?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

But then something tickled my arms, and bubbles began breaking all around me, and a moment later Emma broke the surface, gasping for breath. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Cleo sprang up, struggling to her feet, breaking free from Mom’s and Dad’s hold. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a sharp snap of rope breaking, and Nox’s cry of fear and rage, and Celaena took off, sprinting across the backs of the four gargoyles before she launched herself into the void. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I can’t count the times I’ve wondered if there have ever been any instances of condemned men escaping the relentless machinery, disappearing before the execution or breaking through the cordon of police. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

And telling my story isn’t the same thing as breaking her trust. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I want to go get my brother,” she said, her voice breaking. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sorrento said, finally breaking his silence as we touched down and the ramp lowered. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He had put the best man he knew, his own son Jimmy, in charge of his breaking and early training. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fell back, breaking to the side, my leg sliding into the wheel. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of breaking glass and china wailed through the house in quick intervals. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Funny how that blue was always there, even when the rest of the earth was screaming and breaking into pieces. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I need to know what constitutes breaking up forever. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“He’s messing with my totem again. Hey!” he screamed, breaking into a run. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Applause shattered the wintery air like breaking glass; Krum had finished — it would be Harry’s turn any moment. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He says that a crucial aspect of breaking the bonds of addiction and finding inner peace owes to “a commitment to a higher power and spiritual awakening.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Finally, I could let go of the kid, and he scrambled up through the mud and weeds like a wet cat breaking frantic from a bathtub. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

As Ralph steps into the light, blinking, they are already breaking into a run. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pyp set the pace, galloping, walking, trotting, and then breaking into another gallop. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I can’t remember if either of these two were with the crowd who saw Chloe breaking up with me on that horrible day. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The issue of circumcision school never came up between me and my father, but there was no doubt that the incident had strained our relationship to a breaking point. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s silent and the words she doesn’t say hang there between us like hulking icicles on the verge of breaking. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He twisted around and blocked his assailant, breaking the man’s watch. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

We were on our tenth pipe when I clambered into its deep hole to take my turn at breaking it up. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks,” said Richards, his face covered in lipstick and his voice breaking; he had shouted it away urging Rosemont on. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She whispers, “We have to announce ourselves so she doesn’t think someone is breaking in. She gets freaked out easily.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A farmer that religious might be offended if he saw you breaking the Sixth Commandment forninst his field. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

There was much shouting and debating among the Orcs; a quarrel seemed on the point of breaking out again between the Northerners and the Isengarders. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The familiar smell of woods and grass and the silence, broken only by birds chirping and tiny twigs breaking underfoot, reveals the spot even before my blindfold is off. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I was trapped inside my church while people were shooting, breaking windows, and screaming for their lives. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

At that lawless flower-child Camp Day-Glo, they probably let you drive when your foot could reach the pedal without breaking the moisture seal on your training pants. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

But the country was so ravaged that their hearts never stopped breaking. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, in the wake of Brown’s little adventure, all hell was breaking loose. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Neither of them knew it yet, but it was the start of a partnership that would transform their lives—and the future of American code breaking. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He was breaking down the engine to its parts. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fenrir closed his teeth gently until they held Tyr’s hand at the wrist without breaking the skin, and he closed his eyes. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Or had breaking one enormous rule enabled her to break others? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few hours later, when the dawn started breaking over the horizon outside my window, I did as La Llorona advised. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was as if Morrie were breaking him down, one layer at a time. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dreams are better,” Esther sang, her voice breaking on a high note. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brittle, breaking, destroyed, because The Taker is sitting right next to her. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Lupita, all I know is that even if we can live with her and her pocho husband, we will be breaking the law.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Even the smaller challenges—breaking a bad habit or sticking to a diet—often prove too difficult, even for those of us who are relatively privileged and comfortable in our daily lives. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

There were times when I felt like breaking in on all of them and saying, “Wait a minute! Who’s the accused here? Being the accused counts for something. And I have something to say!” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Pageant piggies!” someone yells from the other side of the parking lot, breaking the moment between us. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Then in rage the old Dragon of Pendor rose up breaking the tower with the writhing of his body, and beating his wings that spanned the whole width of the ruined town. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The breaking of the conch and the deaths of Piggy and Simon lay over the island like a vapor. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The car moved deeper into the Georgia countryside, prayer breaking out of the windows in wavering harmonics spilling into the ditches and moccasin strung creeks of the pine counties outside of Atlanta. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stella hollered after him, breaking into a run herself. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It's an old building, so something's always cracking, leaking, shaking, or breaking. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Tell him we don’t bite,” the white man said, breaking into a laugh. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Given the rise of machine code breaking and the general decline in smuggling, the “usefulness of my section was therefore in my opinion ended,” she stated. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It had sailed over everyone’s heads into the dark hedges where it landed with the thrashing sound of breaking branches, and then, the surprising cry of a startled couple. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blackborrow fell to his hands and knees, and a breaking wave toppled him over. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

After working in tandem with Elizebeth, it felt strange to go back to breaking codes by himself, but that was Army policy. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“The party is breaking up anyway, Don Enrique. This rain is a perfect excuse.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As in: How do you apologize to your twin brother for being churlish— for almost breaking his nose?This week. get my report card. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Bless that woman,” he declared before breaking away to help with the shoveling. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And above that, the sound of cracking—snapping and breaking—and the squeal and scream of wood on wood. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Don’t come back,” she says, her voice breaking. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“We’re breaking the most sacred law in Harare. Mwari knows what will happen on the other side—and you keep going on about the subway. Pay attention!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard breaking into a new school. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I know who you are,” Alby said finally, breaking the silence. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Times are lean, Bull,” Lillian said, pulling away from her husband and breaking step. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of them were in a festive mood—giving each other high fives, tying plastic bibs around their necks, breaking out the knives and forks. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Whatever spell she was under, whatever sacred moment this was, I didn't want to risk breaking it. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Zero was on the way, and just as the church was breaking the shackles of Aristotelianism, it arrived. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

When we arrived in Rochester, dawn was breaking. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

No one outside of the Negro community could imagine the profound effect this action had in killing the Negro’s hope and breaking his morale. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, it looks like nothing’s changed with Mr. Griswold,” James said, breaking up her thoughts. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

His body was tensed as a strong leaf spring drawn to the breaking strain; his face was grave and gray, and his eyes were on the ground immediately ahead of him. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She protested and Mack and the boys, outraged at this breach of propriety, threw him out quickly and without breaking anything. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She faced the stove, never needing to actually see them to know they were breaking some rule or another. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Swiftly Jason lifted the golden wonder from the tree it hung on, and hurrying back they reached the ship as dawn was breaking. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cup of coffee together, as day was breaking, became in time their habit. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

After Tristran's death, there were those who claimed that he was a member of the Fellowship of the Castle, and was instrumental in breaking the power of the Unseelie Court. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth was in favor of breaking the cages and freeing them on the spot, but I pointed out it wouldn’t do much good until the truck stopped moving. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Likewise, “united thoughts and counsels” stretches the notion of collective responsibility to the breaking point. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Day before yesterday,” she repeated, breaking off a spray of Mademoiselle’s geranium; “then if you had not met me here today you wouldn’t— when—that is, didn’t you mean to come and see me?” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than one scythe slipped, spraining an ankle or breaking an arm. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He was breaking his rule right and left and in a minute he would stop but for that minute he would go ahead and imagine as much as he wanted. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"From the first I was curious as to how Gardner had gotten even as far as he had in breaking into the KGB code system," Lamphere said. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Nico asked me to help. I do not think Iapetus or Bob likes breaking promises.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Jesus Christ, Charles!” he said, his voice breaking. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I give him a leaping high five without breaking stride. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“I read about that in science. It’s the fat breaking the surface tension.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Jason pointed to the strawberry fields, where the Romans were breaking camp. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

While Vonetta recited, Fern did the dance that told of the summer leaves falling into color, falling away and then breaking through spring branches. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Meitner pulled out a scrap of paper and pencil, and Frisch sketched a diagram of a circle stretching into a long oval shape, and finally breaking in two. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My feelings about Guillermo kaleidoscope from hating him one minute for destroying our family, for breaking my father’s heart, for a future that’s never going to happen—and, what would’ve happened? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I hear a loud noise and the sound of glass breaking. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

An attendant hauled open the doors leading off the platform, and instantly the noise redoubled and the heat swept over them like a breaking wave. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Dawn was breaking over the horizon, shell pink and faintly gold, as he washed, again following the train of thought that had come to him in the dark garden.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I can see the light breaking through the trees up ahead.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was deep, low, and raw—a voice like woodsmoke, serrated blades, and boots breaking through snow. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

"That lovely British accent!" the receptionist murmurs, breaking the silence. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I am not breaking up with you. That would be impossible, because we are not together.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, you better be careful. I hope your dad’s right about the Official Secrets Act. You know what the penalty for breaking it is?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

For up ahead there was a noise of breaking branches. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

We could hear them in the kitchen breaking our bowls and banging the pots. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw a beach made of ice, and she felt her heart breaking. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“My children, my wife. They’re gone,” he said, his voice breaking. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Nazario, I got a question to ask you,” I said, breaking the silence. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“You could have gone through the light,” Lily said, her voice breaking. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

English and I had a rhythm going, and I knew that if we kept it up for the next few months, we’d both be breaking records. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The gray clouds sailed above us, breaking up into smaller ones, leaving little openings of blue sky. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Did they know about my breaking the law by playing tennis with whites? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One percent? Compared to breaking into Special Circumstances, that’s a breeze.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I pushed this advantage ruthlessly, for it was the most effective means I had found of breaking his hold over me. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

It was only after the meeting was breaking up that there came the developments which even my volatile suspicions hadn't allowed me to foresee. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He always found some excuse for these moves besides breaking up quarrels, but always, when he transferred the men, he reminded them that they could survive only by cooperating. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“Sticky atoms are caused by love, or sometimes by hate or fear. The knackery has a hard time breaking down love and hate into anything else.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Drained like I had been working on a chain gang, breaking rocks in the hot sun. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Things were far from over, but at the first premature signs that the day’s search was breaking up we headed rapidly and silently for the car. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Too many responses—some true, some not—are colliding in his head and breaking up into floating letters he can’t seem to wrangle back into words that make sense. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

It was a morning of thick fog and the sound of far-off waves breaking on the shore. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man shuddered at the sound of the breaking toy. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He fell back under the breaking curve of darkness and sound and smell, his ears roaring. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a delicate process, and the sheet could only remain in the solution a minute; too long a soak resulted in the paper breaking down. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“It looks almost as though the dawn was breaking over there, beyond those hills. It can’t be though, it’s too early.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

There was a crunch of breaking china: He had trodden on a cup of cold tea that had been sitting on the floor outside his bedroom door. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Only thing was, I didn't know if I was breaking any different rules down there that I didn’t even know about. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then, unless the fascination is too powerful, there comes the point when keeping still is discarded and the rabbit, as though breaking a spell, turns in an instant to its other resource—flight. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was late at night, and the only person to receive the breaking news was a lone botanist working on the floor below. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I walked out in the light of breaking clouds. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cut my arm breaking into the upstairs bathroom window of my current place. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Placing clean cotton bandages between them to prevent breaking. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He worked all through the morning at die wood, breaking down dead limbs and breaking or chopping them in smaller pieces, storing them neatly beneath the overhang. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clayton had once dropped the shaker, breaking the tip of one of its wings. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

They then took turns jumping on the denuded box and became so absorbed in breaking it into bits that they forgot all about the string hanging out of the window. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hot, bright yolk was like a summer sun breaking through cloud, the first daffodil in the snow, a gold sovereign wrapped in a white silk handkerchief. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

To prevent burglars and vandals from breaking in, we’d hang laundry on the clothesline and put dirty dishes in the sink. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The only sound was the sudden, wild laughter of Encanis, like breaking glass. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, one member of a double-star system explodes, breaking the gravitational shackles that bound its companion, which then leaps into space at its former orbital velocity, a slingshot in the sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

To steel myself against emotion, I’m clinging to the practicalities of breaking the law. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He straightened his legs, and as he did, the ladder rose from the water until he saw light breaking the surface, until he felt the air on his face and was finally able to exhale. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Then there was a sharp sound like a bell breaking and the demon’s arm jerked free of the wheel. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The water revitalized me, breaking the time spell, and I lunged forward. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I caught my breath with a tiny cry and tumbled to the ground, breaking the pot in two. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Beefy,” choked out Seven before breaking into a run. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Just then, not far down the hillside, I heard... to say I heard a branch breaking would mislead you. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I know you’re going to ask, so I might as well tell you: It was for breaking into and trying to drive a T train. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Look at what you made me do,” she says, her voice breaking. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gramps didn’t say a word the whole time, just kept slamming his pick in the ground, breaking open the earth, then raising it up and slamming his pick in the ground again. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Hermione had become a bit more relaxed about breaking rules since Harry and Ron had saved her from the mountain troll, and she was much nicer for it. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

If someone’s caught breaking into a house, the township deals with them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We had really done what Chairman Mao asked, breaking with the old and establishing the new. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the twins were toddlers, Mrs. Trepid couldn’t bear their stumbling and falling and screaming and banging and breaking and spitting. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

When another inmate appeared, walking down the flats, the porter attacked him, first breaking the broom handle over his head and then trying to gouge his face with the splintered ends. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you talk this way to anyone else? You leave all the rule breaking to me. You like it that way.” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Who knows? Our job is just to keep it from breaking down. If a part breaks, we got to put on a new one. If a part freezes up, we got to oil it.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Matt remembered something El Patron had said long ago about Tam Lin and Daft Donald: I picked up this lot in Scotland, breaking heads outside a soccer field. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could hear windows breaking and shots fired after dark. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The earth is still drying out, but the sun is almost breaking through thick white cloud. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, Papa,” she said finally, her voice breaking. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

American troop levels in Vietnam were nearing 200,000, but the enemy was adapting by breaking into small groups and moving unseen through the rugged mountains and forests. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She was a master at it, breaking them into almost perfect blocks. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just—I left them,” I told her, and it didn’t matter that my voice was breaking, or that my hands had come up to clutch my elbows to keep from grabbing her. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And I thought that she might tell me something about Wellington or about Mr. Shears without me asking her, so that wouldn’t be breaking my promise. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I play it over and over in my head. What I could have done to keep him by my side without breaking the alliance. But nothing comes to me.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Without breaking her gaze with him, Nok bent down and set her staff on the stone at her feet. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She went on breaking pea pods into the pot. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was breaking news all over the television. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Today I work in colored pencil, but I hold them so hard and press so powerfully, the pencils keep breaking. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He could not see the fish’s jumps but only heard the breaking of the ocean and the heavy splash as he fell. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the silence, I could hear the sound of the bone breaking, and the dog backed away on three legs. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well—the general air, the style, the self-possession, the—the—illusion—you know”, laughed Laurie, breaking down and helping himself out of his quandary with the new word. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, we’re just scattering some dead fish about town, breaking some windows, photographing naked guys, hanging out in skyscraper lobbies at three-fifteen in the morning, that kind of thing. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Family history, breaking and' entering, weird secrets locked up in a Ivy League fortress,” Neville said. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I never ruled out the possibility of even senior ANC men breaking down under police torture. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was very peaceful here with the lap of the waves breaking over the rocks. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“Well, anyway,” Jinny said again, breaking the silence, “I’ll just go do that, get the cushions, before it gets any later. We could all use a good night’s sleep.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Because when Apa is too quiet with the squinty eye, it is better to hide until he falls asleep or else there will be breaking everywhere. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The newsfeeds were airing live coverage of the hundreds of large-scale battles breaking out on Frobozz, around nearly every instance of the “dwelling long neglected.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Since Dad was hardly ever home—he was out making contacts and investigating the UMW, he told us—and never got around to breaking ground, Brian and I decided to help. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, some things, like the latest weather and breaking news, appear online hours before they hit print. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he was coming home; then he was in the far back courtyard, with the servants, breaking a rooster’s neck. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard twigs breaking and footsteps getting closer from the direction of the swimming hole. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

In my mind, I wasn’t breaking the rules, because the rules didn’t make any sense. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He just smiled and said not to worry, but I felt really bad because I wasn’t lending a hand when it was my stuff they were breaking their backs carrying. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He shrank from the very thought of breaking another door seal and repeating the nerve-racking process of mending it, but there was no other way. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Enrique is breaking a promise he made to leave his addictions behind once he crossed into the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The tunnel let us out somewhere in the wasteland we drove through to get to the compound, among the crumbling buildings and overgrown trees breaking through the pavement. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Kayak won the San Carlos Handicap, nailing Specify at the wire and breaking the track record. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first I couldn’t sleep at all—every sound was my parents coming home, or someone breaking in. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The hiss of waves breaking at her ankles is a gentle sigh, as if the sea itself has found lasting contentment. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I was breaking every rule of successful lying. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

What prompted her to leave, what the final breaking point was, I have no idea. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My heart rate picks up as I do, like I am breaking the rules and will be scolded for it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I see a gun on the tile near a drinking fountain and lurch toward it, breaking my grip on Matthew’s hand. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

When I look closer, I realize that he's drawing soldiers breaking into our home. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Al’s screams wake me every time, and I stare at the springs above me and wonder what on earth is wrong with me, that I still feel strong when everyone else is breaking down. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t breaking any Olympic records, but I was definitely putting some distance between myself and the Coral Queen. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

We bonded over the various ways we could contort my Barbie and Ken dolls without breaking them. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the ground at her feet went snap, like a twig breaking. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Obedient to Sirius’s wish of hearing about anything odd at Hogwarts, Harry sent him a letter by brown owl that night, explaining all about Mr. Crouch breaking into Snape’s office, and Moody and Snape’s conversation. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Nearly everyone had dropped out by now, having decided that doing homework would be easier than the work of creating and breaking the class ciphers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Oliver said, breaking the moment and reaching for the presents he already knew were his. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And Tony will be filling out accident reports while I’m breaking with Ebola. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room is a cluster of fidget, every three or four children practically breaking out of his or her own skin, hopping. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

No doubt they had their methods of breaking into a closed warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dawn was breaking by the time he finally gave up. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

But as we watched, the cloaked figures sank to the ground without breaking their grasp. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I didn't think of the danger involved with breaking the law. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Should I ask Miles to come with us? He has more experience breaking and entering than we do.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Nailer wondered if it was their breaking or something else that had happened in the last three days that made Pima so wary. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Your mom bought them for me,” I retorted without breaking my stride. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was cold and the snap of each twig breaking sounded like tiny hunters firing tiny rifles at tiny imaginary deer. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Milord Octavian,” said my mother, “stop breaking my crayons.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It stretched out its legs rigidly, then did a back flip, breaking the thread and landing on the desk, where it began to cartwheel in circles. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Each time I fall, I dream of breaking their bones. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he caught the boys with visitors now, they were not only breaking one of the Institute’s very few rules, but lying about it as well. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The raindrops hit the ground as if they’d been hurled in malice, breaking and splashing up into the air. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

At nightfall there were upwards of four hundred members of the Shrew Union seated around the campfire, breaking bread with the warrior from Redwall. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Staying well was a tightrope act for William, and breaking Purple destroyed his balance. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Natalie gasped, breaking into the brighter, more open space behind Chess. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Instead of breaking rocks, I was told to carry them up a long hill. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure listens to the house timbers creak and the gulls cry and the gentle roar breaking against the window. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, Neville had no sooner reached the shelf of teacups when there was a tinkle of breaking china. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Already men were breaking away, flying wild and witless here and there, flinging away their weapons, crying out in fear, falling to the ground. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

How proud she was of breaking her rules for once. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He let Mama sneak her arms around him and lay her head on his chest instead of breaking away to get on with the business at hand. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I was a little embarrassed because she thought I was just joking, but this time I was really going to be breaking the rules. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

It was the same way I felt when he smiled, his face breaking open like a coconut with the brilliant white meat inside. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He knew why she wanted it to be all right: She still felt guilty about breaking his wand. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The sound of breaking glass cut into his thoughts. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Dimple felt the beginning of stress hives breaking out on her face just from the thought of it. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Of course I am, boy. You breaking your poor momma’s heart. What would you do if I dropped dead?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twentieth century art music, in particular, was very interested in breaking down or even rejecting these rules. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“I cannot. To explain would involve breaking a trust and I am not willing to do that, not even for you.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s the way he’s holding himself,” Wilem said, breaking his usual thoughtful silence. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was like dodging back and forth from one dimension to another, a silent explosion of breaking through a sound barrier, a curious experience, like a quick dip into a known but alien water. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Humming a tune beneath his breath, he strode out with a will, almost breaking from the cover of the trees straight out into the flat meadowland. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Virgil was passable, with the storm breaking up the fleet, and Aeneas finally coming to land, and the gods bothering and fussing at each other. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“What can they do to me? I’m breaking no commandment. All they can do is wag the ‘naughty’ finger at me, and refuse to wave good-bye as I drive to the airport.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It continued to float, rising above every wave, but there was no freeboard and the surf of every breaking wave rode clear across it, washing around me like a river washing around a boulder. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He waves, his face breaking into a big smile on seeing me. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

It was dark while the guards were breaking up our demonstration; maybe most of the people got home without being recognized. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Did the wind come suddenly, I wondered, in a funnel from the beacon on the hill, and did the little boat heel to it, shivering, the white sail flat against a breaking sea. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Jack unsheathes a set of wooden chopsticks, breaking them apart with a clean snip. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Grandma,” I said in a breaking voice, though my voice was beginning to break anyway, “are you talking about the brakeman’s ghost?” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

We lift each other’s clothing, run our hands over each other’s backbones, and I feel the backbone tensed and strung to breaking. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard breaking into a new school. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I have continued on through the cold, misty woods, breaking a path that will be unfamiliar to Gale but is simple for my feet to find. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

This was what her tugging had foretold—the world breaking to bits, the sky falling. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

My father and Ultima were the only people I ever knew that did not mind breaking their fast before communion. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another recollection broke through his thoughts, like a fish breaking the surface of water. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The ocean surface had thousands of tiny white waves breaking in every direction now. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

After breaking off a long Jimpson weed to use as a prod, I got up on Rubin’s shoulder, and he raised me up. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moved as swiftly as he could without breaking into a run, fearing his resolution might dissolve if he slowed. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

With no time for a honeymoon trip, they went straight back to code breaking. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

At that moment, there was a crash of breaking china from inside Hagrid’s cabin. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Harry had no answers: There were moments when he wondered whether it had been outright madness not to try to prevent Voldemort breaking open the tomb. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He stopped; his voice was breaking, and I do not know if rage or terror predominated in my own heart. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Well, it looks like nothing’s changed with Mr. Griswold,” James said, breaking up her thoughts. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I heard long, angrily whispered conversations between my mother and grandmother to the effect that “that woman ought to be killed for breaking up a home.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without breaking stride, he smacks one of them on the side of the head. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Indeed, it was breaking a little, even now. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“It isn’t a real bird, conductor sir. We’d never dream of breaking the rules like that. It’s my sister’s favorite toy, you see, and she thinks you mean to take it away from her.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Tom sprang away, and breaking off a hanging branch smote the side of the willow with it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

On the way to the cemetery, under the persistent drizzle, Arcadio saw that a radiant Wednesday was breaking out on the horizon. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was a sound like the breaking of ice underfoot. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she does practice, often, breaking all manner of things around the house in order to put them back together again. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As I read, I feel my heart breaking into little pieces that go knocking around my chest like coins being rattled in a cup. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“There’s a difference between breaking a rule and bending a rule. We borrowed twenty bucks from a billionaire. We bent a law. Plus, we returned the wallet?” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We will find out soon enough. Now come. Dawn is breaking.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Out of nowhere Mom starts crying and apologizing for breaking up the family to chase her equine dreams. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Sten!” cried two guards breaking off from another group running in the direction of the treasury. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Everyone has a breaking point. And he was sick.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A man who was shot while trying to get water from a tanker truck heading for a hospital, and—just breaking now—the first official death from dehydration in San Bernardino. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Indeed, obstacles that would normally lead a person to change their plans, like a car breaking down, only made her more determined to forge ahead. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He hover-bounced in the harness a few times, laughing, before being deposited softly on the ground, close enough to Tally that she could hear nervous hiccups breaking up his giggles. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I mean there is one time when a robot may strike a human being without breaking the First Law. Just one time.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

By the time the holidays were over, tension between the two teams and their Houses was at the breaking point. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was about breaking apart Invisible Twinkle and putting her together again, only as a shinier, impossible-to-miss version this time. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

This was why William was ordered to take charge and become directly involved in breaking it. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Haven't you learned? Government leaders are the worst ones for breaking laws. How do you think we got this house? How do you think I got Internet access? How do you think we live?” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I found myself running, fighting the wind around the head of the bay toward the pier where the boats were breaking up. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ordinary folks just need to be able to fill the gas tank without it breaking them. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I lay in bed crying, afraid to step into the room where I heard things breaking, but the next morning there were no mismatched pieces, no chips or fragments, nothing to sweep away. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He struggled to hold the bike upright, then gunned the engine, breaking free of her grasp. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

They frolicked around, slamming into each other, breaking fortifications, and generally having an excellent time. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Walk? It’s, like, four miles,” I said, breaking my whisper. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She stood by herself in the dark back yard, breaking off pieces of bark from the oak tree with her fingernails. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

For a quick second Neel pictured himself breaking through the triangle of pursuers, leaping into the nauka, and rowing himself and the cub away from danger. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

She dragged her shivering, breaking body the last few steps to the palace, because she had come all this way, and now she was here. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I spent two years in a juvenile detention center for breaking my father’s arm. Both arms, actually. And his nose. He also had a fractured skull, but that probably wasn’t entirely my fault.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

After four seconds, the crack of thunder sounds like a giant breaking the sky in two. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“Your grandfather’s rules are your grandfather’s rules. He has his reasons. I’m not about to go breaking them. Or bending them either.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

But what I remember most about that wait is not the heat and how I was still mustering the courage to stand up in front of everyone and testify without breaking down. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Even the smoke was gone now, and the crowd was breaking up, each man going about his business. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Since Claudette had been charged with breaking the city and state segregation laws, Gray hoped he could use the case to show they were unconstitutional. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

While you are at Hogwarts, your triumphs will earn your House points, while any rule- breaking will lose House points. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Then to Briony, “I’ll be quite honest with you. I’m torn between breaking your stupid neck here and taking you outside and throwing you down the stairs.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The car moved past the lights of a highway rest stop, breaking the darkness a couple of times. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

For a second I feel like everything inside me is breaking, and I crouch by a body, breathing through my mouth so I don’t smell the blood. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The eggplants gave them an excuse for breaking the rules and starting a conversation. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He didn’t know who she was!” cried Sugar-Girl, breaking in to the story. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked anxiously towards the mouth of the cove where the waves were breaking upon the rocks. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He snapped his fingers, a small bullet of sound breaking against his palm. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

No breaking ranks, no rushing the boats, no first come first served, no devil take the hindmost. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But it was amazing how close Emma had come to breaking down into tears at that moment. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The song stopped, and a snap like the breaking of twigs took its place. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the claw of the crane had already flattened the roof, pinning his left leg, perhaps even breaking it. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

That was where everybody needed to move to give them the best chance of breaking away. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“You’re breaking curfew. You realize that? You understand the consequences of breaking the rules here?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Code breaking, it turned out, was not everyone’s cup of tea. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“But I have finish the work. The problem is the tile is breaking very easily. It is the quality of tile.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Katniss?” a voice croaks out from my left, breaking apart from the general din. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Their beaks were breaking my skin like arrows. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The woman repeated the question, her voice breaking. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The interesting thing about Thanksgiving this year was that it fell almost right in the middle of Ramadan, so we’d be breaking our fast and having Thanksgiving dinner all at the same time. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was an emasculation, a sentence, and this—what he was feeling now—this torture was his punishment for breaking her ridiculous vase. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She was pummeling Harp’s head like a jackhammer breaking concrete. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Lyra could see why Farder Coram loved her, and why it was breaking his heart, though she had known neither of those things a moment before. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“So spit it out, Moss,” his mother said, breaking off part of a biscuit that Shamika had made. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The next year Mohammed won the Capri-to-Naples race again, this time breaking the course record set by Camarero by fifteen minutes. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Putting it on a disc is a ridiculous idea. Discs just end up breaking or in the wrong person’s hands, like all other physical objects. I suggest you make use of the data network.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The hub of code breaking in the United States was a tiny office in Arlington Hall, formerly a private school for girls in Virginia, not far from Washington, DC. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was, of course, much smarter than I gave him credit for, and he eventually proved his intelligence by breaking up with me. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Upon arrival at the Gardens of Glenwood, the two men carry everything up the flight of stairs to Dell's apartment without even breaking a sweat. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“So blue,” I reply before breaking into a laugh. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I looked over my shoulder at her without breaking my stride. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

No one knew with certainty what law they were breaking, but it seemed unlawful somehow. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

His voice was breaking, tears pooling in his eyes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She had found the pattern that was the key to breaking Purple. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

After long hours of code breaking, he went back to his room in a private French home, among streets so dark that he sometimes needed the light from his cigarette to find his way. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I felt like I was dying, or the Earth was breaking apart beneath my feet, or the sky might swallow me whole. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The knowledge that the gathering was safely round the corner came to Hazel in the form of a recollection of Silver’s head and paws breaking through gravel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t keep treating it like something that belongs in a museum’s exhibit specializing in one guy’s history of breaking hearts. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

And yet, this letter, her witness, spoke, breaking her long silence, now that she was beyond his reach forever. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Not a ha’porth. Different gangs and different ships. He was tried again for prison breaking, and got made a Lifer.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

But I can see him studying his newspaper, breaking off regularly to look up at the passers-by on the pavement outside. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

My heart was breaking in half, and at the same time I was so mad at him I wanted to kill him. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

“That dog was very old,” my mother says, breaking the silence between us. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She was bedridden after breaking her hip, and the only person coming in or out of her apartment was a nurse who stopped by for one hour each day. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“So,” she said, “are we breaking up already?” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I stand by her side translating, my voice breaking only once, when they ask if he beats me also. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Libby was tougher than I had imagined she’d be, never once breaking down or even shedding the first tear. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

When he sees me, his brow furrows, and his lips fall into a deep-set frown, breaking his scab. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Bitter often joked to Jam that her father moved like a functioning disaster, clumsy and charming and breaking at least one breakable thing a week. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I pictured them surging into the little cove and breaking with a roar upon the rocks, then running swift and strong to the shelving beach. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But I couldn’t argue the case because I was, at that moment, actually breaking the law. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I have seen men stand up to attacks and torture without breaking, showing a strength and resiliency that defies the imagination. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the small window, I watch the ocean roll, the rickety Oasis breaking up as it smashes against the rocks. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The deep sea breaking miles away on the reef made an undertone less perceptible than the susurration of the blood. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Linde’s idea of a slow breaking of symmetry was very good, but I later realized that his bubbles would have to have been bigger than the size of the universe at the time! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We would be honored,” said Garikayi, breaking in on Tendai’s thoughts, “if our visitor from afar would recount something from his people.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I said to him, for I could see that his heart was breaking:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The legion itself was taking the brunt of the attack, but their formation was breaking. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Turner’s arms felt strong against the long, smooth swells, so low they were not breaking, the sea the color of the inside of a mussel shell. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Then, to save her the trauma of breaking it to me, I ask, “Did he ask after you dropped me off on Friday?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

And when the plowing was done and the worms had all disappeared, either eaten or safely underground, Mr. Fitzgibbon came back with the harrow, breaking down the furrows, and turned them all up again. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Code breaking even helped drag the United States into the war. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They started breaking the locks off all the barracks. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You guys are a pathetic excuse for a soccer team,” she told the boys, her voice breaking with anger. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The tumult of cessation from lessons was already breaking forth, but it sank at her voice. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Ugwu felt stained and unworthy as he went about his new duties after the priests left—distributing garri, breaking up fights, supervising the scorched and failing farms. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But the big woman—Gilly could see the pain breaking up the totem-pole stare—Trotter shuddered to her feet like an old circus elephant. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Rosy streaks are breaking through in the east. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m glad I’m not. Have you had a conversation about breaking the spell of the educated witch?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The reason she got it for next to nothing was because it was always breaking down. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The hole grew bigger and bigger, and then, like a robot breaking from a crate, the hatchling pulled himself out into the world. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I imagined the touch tank breaking, the rays and tiny sharks spilling out all over the floor. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I think Minerva is close to her own breaking point. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There the boy had lasted only seventeen hours before breaking out, this time with an unlikely accomplice. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So my mom...my mom’s taking Haley and me to Bye Bye Birdie opening night,” I say softly, breaking the silence. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Throughout the morning it had drizzled on and off, but now the clouds were breaking up. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Someone tugged on his sleeve, breaking him from his thoughts; Chuck had come back. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

"Why is she breaking up the club?" she asked. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow he would begin the task of breaking down the empire of Opium. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jinny sputtered as she turned quickly this way and that, small waves rolling past her, breaking gently against her shoulders. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The garden provided many excuses for breaking that particular rule. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking up they saw the clouds breaking and shredding; and then high in the south the moon glimmered out, riding in the flying wrack. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The crack of wood breaking startled me, but I let out a breath of relief when I saw it was only Jay punching out the pieces of his model airplane kit. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Now came the maids, bare-armed and lovely, voices breaking into the room. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our group got smaller the farther into the prison we went, with groups breaking off at the hospital building and at every side corridor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope so,” Lydia said, her voice shuddering and breaking. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I wonder if she thinks I’m breaking up with her. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I decided to risk breaking my cover when one of the players ran to the dugout for some water. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Besides, they had more than enough to do already, creating codes and breaking messages for their own services. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He said, “You can collect your fifty dollars up at the big house. If you want to stay, you got a job breaking horses.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the racket he made, you’d have thought I had a club and was breaking every bone in his body. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half the horses shied at the last second, breaking their charge before die row of spears. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He worked very quietly—first the tray—then get out the glasses without breaking any. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as for breaking the Ring, force is useless. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was terrified of doing something wrong and breaking it. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It vibrates through me, shaking my ribs and breaking me apart, shattering me to dust. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I bet he’s spent the day breaking promises to his wife and children. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

‘Frightening my customers and breaking up my crocks with your acrobatics!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“She sure raise a fine boy,” Toomer said, breaking out finally in a huge smile. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The rules, the rules, the stupid rules. Everything’s against the rules. How can you have any fun when you’re always worried about breaking rules?” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Dawn was breaking behind her, in the east. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

We fell silent as we got closer, quiet as the bubbles breaking in the mud of the marsh. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They walked behind them for about twenty minutes, not speaking, listening hard for noises other than breaking twigs and rustling leaves. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He made the sound of a twig breaking. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I don’t feel like explaining to him that we’re on the verge of breaking up—I don’t know him, and even if I did, I wouldn’t want to talk about it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Ophie hesitated for only a moment before breaking away from her mother and dashing after him. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Is it so strange, then, that he is breaking his father’s rules and reading forbidden books? The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They would know now, if they had not known before, that he was breaking the agreement he had made with them. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I guess I didn’t expect the breakup to suck if I did the breaking up. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The old man was trying with both hands to keep the line just inside of breaking strength. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far below, the waves glittered silver, breaking against the rocks. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He is not one for breaking rules, as it violates his army training. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It was the end of May before the Silacci boys brought the news that the salmon-pink blossoms of the azaleas were breaking free. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

An uprising requires breaking the law, thwarting authority. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

What was within their control, however, they took pains to bulletproof, even if it meant stretching—then breaking—their timeline. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Even if Ares is cleared on charges of treason, there is still the issue of his breaking of the bond,” said the red bat. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

At least there he wouldn’t have to steal food and worry about the clocks breaking down. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

While he broke televisions, stereos, VCRs and the dining room table, it didn't compare to the breaking of her mind. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The pistol bucked in my hands and its report sounded like the earth breaking open, so tremendous and sudden that I shut my eyes. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Ship breaking would be one possible trade source for raw components.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Four told me he would delete the recording of me breaking the glass. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The outpost fell quickly into Octavian’s hands, breaking Mark Antony’s chain at a critical point and disrupting his communication and supply route. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The wind kicked up huge swirling waves of powder snow that washed down the mountain like breaking surf, plastering my clothing with frost. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

How her eyes are vacant and her body is so thin, because her muscles are actually shrinking and breaking down now. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

But the bus is a lemon, always breaking down, and after they’ve poured heaps of money into repairs, some thieves steal it. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tiny and lively, Elizebeth spoke of the days when code breaking could be done with pencil and paper. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Dawn was breaking outside by the time she finally fell asleep, but the nightmares hadn’t finished with her yet. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The black stripes stretch out into empty space as their white counterparts brighten, reaching upward and breaking apart into branches. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The breaking comes inside, hitting, hitting my heart. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He flipped on the switch without breaking stride, and the powerful beam lit the road in front of him. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘Look at it! The wind’s changed. Something’s happening. He’s not having it all his own way. His darkness is breaking up out in the world there. I wish I could see what is going on!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Ms. Udell held a stern look for a moment before breaking into a grin. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Tell me what?” he says, and then, “Whoa, wait a minute, are you breaking up with me?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Rain and dirt had blended into a heavy goo along the rail; breaking from the three post, Seabiscuit would be right down in it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed a thick tuft of fur on the way down, breaking his fall while also causing the beast to honk and buck in pain. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She nodded, breaking into a wide, wondering smile that he could hardly help but mirror back at her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

This was primary source material, research papers based on direct experimental data, involved theoretical constructions utilizing a complex vocabulary and containing a wealth of original ideas—and he was breaking his head on it. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

No one in this crowd is much for breaking rules, but sweat is already beading above their glossed lips, so maybe they’ll be sensible. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He’s breaking the rules, under their noses, thumbing his nose at them, getting away with it. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“See the cows? That would be breaking your grandfather’s rules!” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“We are so grateful for this opportunity, sir,” Polly said, her voice breaking. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a precaution against breaking my bogus mother’s heart, I planned to take her into my underworld employ in some undefined but appropriately regal capacity. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The thought of Ollie barking at soldiers breaking into my apartment, scared and alone, brings a lump to my throat. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But now the mist was thinning, and here she was, breaking. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Bodega did something to the neighborhood, something with staying power, like a song that no one could possibly like but you, because you heard it at a time when your heart was breaking. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

You could get there without breaking the sticky tape on the door. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Philadelphia...seemed to strive to exceed all other places in the breaking of the Sabbath,” he noted. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I thought I was going to totally dread this moment—breaking things off. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

And even Lucky Strike smiled and scraped when the big bosses from Lawson &c Carlson rolled in on their special train to inspect the breaking, before it rolled out again to wherever swanks lived. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her father rode off in the other direction, breaking into a full gallop. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I had to get back to my cabin before Argus or the harpies discovered I was breaking curfew. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Yesterday, after I had pulled myself together well enough to leave the tahara house without breaking down sobbing, I had gone home. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Lucky Strike’s giving out food to anyone who wants it. Credit for everyone until the ship breaking starts again.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Birdsong was breaking out all round and the rooks were calling from high in the elms, but nothing—not even a sparrow—moved on the ground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And an escort whose heart I’m breaking without him even knowing it. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Kaori pointed straight ahead without breaking her stride, like a general leading her troops into battle. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

When they crossed the threshold, breaking into the night and the fresh air, they were running. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I only hear the slap, loud as breaking glass. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Glass was breaking, raining down like tears against the asphalt. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Father called after me, his voice breaking on my name. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

My parents have never believed in grounding us or taking away our phones or computers, all the things Amanda’s parents do to her when she gets caught breaking the rules. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Before his captors could stop him, he bit down on the tip of the CIA-designed device, breaking a vial of cyanide poison. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They want to get better at their craft of breaking jaws just as you want to get better at art or music. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I’m out the door so quickly, it’s like I’m breaking out of prison. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I considered breaking free and making a run for it. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Howling, he picked me up and hurled me into the dining room, but I got right up and hit him with one of Mom’s prized cherry-wood chairs, breaking off one of its legs. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Glass tinkled; she felt the impact afterward, the firm, cool glass, breaking through. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were a little faster, more abrupt, with here and there less than a smooth curve at the top, almost a breaking point. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pale sky looked vast and you could see it reflected every so often in the patches of water breaking up the land. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

How many times had she warned against breaking things during the holidays? In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

All I cared about was breaking free and going to the funeral home to help Mr. Ray. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I laughed but kept on singing, even louder than before, my voice breaking horribly as I went into the chorus. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The principal starts breaking up the crowd, telling everyone to move along or come to his office. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I stared at him in amazement, and he stared back, his mouth breaking into a grin as the moments passed. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not a single one. So, technically, we’re not breaking the rules.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I was apologizing as fast as I could and as many times as I could for breaking through the window and collapsing one end of the Drinkers’ Ping-Pong table. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The FBI still depended on her to handle the brunt of their code breaking. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She’d been rambling like that for fifteen minutes, reciting everything she’d ever seen on TV about how to not get caught breaking into someone’s house, and the, penalties if we were. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Graves’s fleet could not reach Cornwallis without first breaking through the French fleet. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I beg you. We are peaceful,” Papa said, breaking the silence, his voice cracking. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Whether her outpouring in front of Czarnecki was the spontaneous result of having reached a breaking point or something more astute, she picked the right person to vent to. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

When I recovered my composure, I had to leap onto the sidewalk at the risk of breaking all my bones, and run toward the street down which she had already turned. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded as if the whole world was breaking and cracking apart; there hadn’t been a storm like that in memory. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It stretches plausibility to the breaking point that he would have decided to deliver one as important as this off the cuff. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I guess they double-cuffed us. But breaking out was easy. I cut them on a sharp rock.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I was on my way back from Granny’s when I saw people breaking into the building. I joined them. Now we have food to last us a while.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can feel my own heart breaking, but I stand firm. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Across the tent, people toss them at each other like snowballs, though instead of breaking they bounce off of their targets, floating gently down. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s good to see you,” I say after a while, feeling like I’m breaking a silent prayer. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I know it’s breaking the law in the strictest sense, but it’s pure. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We won, though,” said Ron, a grin breaking across his face. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

We never speak, not at the dinner table—almost like we’re supposed to be having a moment of silence, and breaking that silence would be disrespectful to Khalid and his empty chair. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“You were put there to stop anyone breaking out. You had no business to leave it. Get back at once.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, as though a finger had plucked at some taut, almost breaking string, his whole body would shake with a sudden nervous start. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is stretching but certainly not breaking the convention that old-fashioned facts have agents. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I’m close to breaking down because my dad might wake up to a world without me, and I won’t be around to comfort him. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

All at once, as if they had literally caught the light, the gold spheres blaze bright as glass: the sun is breaking through. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It might be Sabbath- breaking, but these men were so sure they were doing God’s will in preparing to resist tyranny they did not care. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t want to hit somebody, and I certainly didn’t plan on breaking the nose of a mafioso math teacher. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then, as a strange dispassionate afterthought, he hit the snake with the stick, breaking the serpent in two or three places, and crushed its head under his boot heel. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane is inside the building—breaking apart, exploding, melting, burning furniture and people. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe I was breaking some sort of long-standing code that the newest member on the team wasn’t supposed to win and make her teammates look bad. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The meeting's just breaking up, and I'm outside looking in. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hudson, who had the tiller, was on the point of breaking. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He liked complex problems, and he liked breaking new ground. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But she also knew that the best thing about breaking a barrier was that it would never have to be broken again. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Bull Meecham could see it; he could hear the sound of ships breaking up and the screams of Russian sailors. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please, Mother, I am near the breaking point.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coach says as he opens the door, letting in the hall light and breaking the spell. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, yes,” Ben sighed, philosophically, “breaking up is hard to do.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Poor humble Gurgi is always faithful to mighty lords—what joy to serve them, even with shakings and breakings.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He charged me, and I ran for the edge of the bridge, breaking through a line of iracaeruu. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He was a jack-of-all-trades, breaking the sturdy little cow ponies, treating their injuries and illnesses, trimming their hooves, and bending over an anvil to forge their shoes. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bad. She said she still loved me. God, ‘1 love you’ really is the gateway drug of breaking up. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Dudes in suits seem excessive for a girl breaking curfew. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Will you have a spray of jessamine?” he asked, breaking off a few blossoms as he passed. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

Its bones were snapping, breaking from the contortion pressure. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In a memo, he praised her “shrewdness in the breaking down of enemy ciphers.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In many ways, it was not much different from the ship- breaking yards. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

If the Nazis ever learned how good she was at code breaking, it would hamper her efforts to bring their spies down. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Of course not, I like to win arguments. In fact, I always win arguments. Back to the subject—have you noticed how bad your face has been breaking out lately?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tree-ear!” she exclaimed, her face breaking into the thousand wrinkles of her smile. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“People spend lifetimes breaking their stick to get rid of anger. But always anger remains, and they think they’ve failed.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She was trying her hardest to avoid looking at Valley and avoid breaking the spell of whatever had kept them from going at each other’s throats that morning. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Until a brick came sailing through the air a few weeks later, breaking glass and landing on their living-room floor. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“Are you finished breaking things?” asked Tyr’s mother. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Rachel, already worn from the long vigil with Judith, was near the breaking point. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Her heart beat madly inside her like a trapped bird, feathers flying, wings breaking against the bars, but inside the ring Archer was as still as he had ever been. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

There was a roar as if great spears were breaking in battle, and in the red light of the sun the spray that flew around them looked like blood. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay,” Liam said, after the silence had stretched to the point of breaking. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Like most of his biochemist colleagues, Miescher was also trying to classify the molecular components of cells by breaking cells apart and separating the chemicals that were released. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The carnival’s breaking apart into a riot hung like a bomb between us. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cut the fish loose is giving up, and that means breaking Rule Number Three. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

There are no Hallmark cards for breaking up with friends. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

When she catches my eye she shakes her head, turns away and walks quickly towards her own front door, almost but not quite breaking into a run. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

All that kept him from breaking down completely was the knowledge that what he was doing was best for them, too. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Would she at least forgive him for breaking his promise? The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

After a while, the Army stopped writing to the Friedmans, and it made other plans to wrest control of code breaking from Fabyan. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I miss him,” Ophie said, forgetting their unspoken rule, breaking yet another promise. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The shocked reporter rushed to his editors and banged out a story breaking the news: Seabiscuit had fractured all four of his legs, and he would never run again. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I am transported to the memory of her breaking into Junito’s room. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Pet’s version of the story had been breaking her heart since she heard it; she wanted to wait a little before breaking Redemption’s. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

With this stake came a heavy hammer, such as in households is used in the coal-cellar for breaking the lumps. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

All the officers had reported for active duty, leaving the two of them behind at Riverbank, with less and less military code breaking coming their way. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But Elizebeth was all business as she explained that it meant she was an expert in breaking secret code and cipher systems. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“This,” she said, “is for breaking my neck.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He says, “That’s it! The game is breaking up, Mason. And I have to get home.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

When Florida was caught breaking one of the rules, she was more likely to argue and, as a result, to earn extra punishments. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I slam the door shut without breaking my stride. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’d do them a favor by buying their records and breaking them in two. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am disappearing inch by inch into this house, I am going apart a little bit at a time because all this noise is breaking me; why are the others frightened? The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

They had leathery shells that gave instead of breaking when he squeezed them. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d probably wind up falling forty feet and breaking twenty-seven bones or something. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“What you told me about living in the Scholars’ Quarter,” he says, breaking the quiet of the room, “with your grandparents and your brother. That was true, once.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Now the two men were silent, breaking it only with small false courtesies—meaningless inquiries about health and weather, with answers unlistened to. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She hissed, “You should have stuck with virtual breaking and entering.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s a lot harder than you think. Plus, I’m breaking the rules right now by telling all of you.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

They are now given joint credit with Linde for what is called “the new inflationary model,” based on the idea of a slow breaking of symmetry. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Take off your mask, Zeta-4,” the Chancellor calls out, breaking the moment’s silence. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The ability to spot patterns is key to code breaking, and Elizebeth already had an eye for them. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Kira saw ice very seldom, only occasionally in the very coldest months when sleet struck the village, breaking tree branches, and the river froze near its banks. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And after seeing what she could do to a bicycle tire, he couldn’t picture her breaking a tooth, either. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And while I myself did not know of anyone who had died after breaking one, it wasn’t worth the risk. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

When I drew in a jagged breath, breaking the stillness, he closed his eyes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You know Silver, don’t you?” asked Bigwig, breaking in on his thoughts. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The marriage was on the point of breaking up after two months because Aureliano Segundo, in an attempt to placate Petra Cotes, had a picture taken of her dressed as the Queen of Madagascar. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Her family—Jonas among them—had talked about the possible reasons for rule- breaking, and the need for understanding and patience, until Lily’s fist had relaxed and her anger was gone. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I can practically hear their hearts breaking as the reality sinks in. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

People are screaming and things are breaking, glass shattering. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Instead, his face breaking into the first smile he had worn for days, he scrambled out of his chair, crouched down by the hearth, and said, “Sirius — how’re you doing?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A tidal wave of the dead breaking over the town. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Of course Kim would go to Adam, to tell him in person as opposed to breaking the news over the phone, and then to bring him here, to me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt like crying into his shirt, breaking down, sobbing for a good hour. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the squall struck whining from the west, with gale force, breaking both forestays, and the mast came toppling aft along the ship’s length, so the running rigging showered into the bilge. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” said Mr. Benedict, kneeling beside Constance, “this machine has come close to breaking her will. The brave child, she’s very nearly used it up all at once.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Piper made them promise to stay off the ship and not possess any of us. But if they followed us, and used other bodies to attack us, then they’re not technically breaking their vow...” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

One morning while Lyddie was churning, just as the cream was breaking into curdles, the cook told Lyddie about the two frogs who fell into the pail of milk. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He stared in front of him, breaking off from his story, and I wondered if he was thinking, as I was, of that flooded cabin beneath the waters in the bay. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He slammed his palm on the side lamp table, almost breaking the plate of smoked glass. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain had stopped, and moonlight was breaking through the clouds. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Fog is not being able to see where you’re going, or which way the waves are breaking. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I took out my note pad and wrote the word down, breaking it into two syllables. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

"Why?!" he keeps repeating and breaking out in fresh chuckles. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Once the lights had been erected, the crew began jackhammering, breaking up the green tennis court into chunks. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Surely there had to be a way for him to help the birds—and Beatrice’s stepbrother—without breaking the law. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you are so concerned about the law," said the Governor, “then you should know that you are breaking it as we speak." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“I’m not throwing anyone anywhere. Seriously, Mom. It’s not like I’m breaking off an engagement.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

And I couldn’t even ask because I would be breaking my own rule about not talking about the accident. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Professor Lupin was breaking an enormous slab of chocolate into pieces. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

And then he saw himself breaking a large colt to halter. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

How breaking into the lab had seemed like the last shred of hope. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Aposiopesis—a sudden breaking off as if at a loss for words—can be intended to stir pathos. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Far below them, so that the sound of the breaking waves was very faint, lay the sea. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

They wouldn’t have gone to all that trouble breaking me out if they hadn’t had a method of keeping tabs on me if I got recaptured or separated from them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Another wave sweeps in, breaking over the boulders with a clap like thunder. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The cup had gone through first one pillar, then another, breaking them into tiny fragments of stone. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He was soon off the chair and running to me, but before he reached me I ducked through the doorway and, heart breaking, slammed it in his face. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’d be lucky to find my way out of the enclosure without breaking a leg, much less successfully navigate the main sanctuary and the front driveway. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But I’d already stolen some dynamite and jumped into a car trunk today—what was a little breaking and entering? The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think you should be breaking any more rules! And you were the one who told me to stand up to people!” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

On December 27, Shackleton turned back from breaking trail to find that the men hauling the boats were standing idle. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t that their parents’ fights got violent or anything like that; words could shatter harder than a glass breaking against a wall, hurt more than a fist plowing through teeth. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Not the shy ice cream bells’ giggle of Rachel and Lucy’s family, but all of a sudden and surprised like a pile of dishes breaking. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than most, they were open to breaking the color barrier by integrating a West Computer into their group. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Indeed - why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was funny to think of Henry, with his little round glasses and his books in Pali, breaking Spike Romney’s collarbone. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Listen, Soph, you’re breaking up. I can barely hear you. Good luck on the test. Knock ’em dead—” The line went silent. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

They wrenched off the boots with which she had been trying to kick them, and dumped her down across Winston’s lap, almost breaking his thighbones. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He would risk breaking the Sabbath for one good hit. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I hear pounding—doors flung open by wind; shutters slapping against windows; glass cracking, breaking like a thousand bottles. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“And we don’t want to have this game breaking down into a two man jitterbug contest. We saw what happened against Trinity. We can win because we have the best team effort in the league.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

One of their horses had fallen, he claimed, throwing the rider and breaking his leg. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down, down the winding passage they went, through darkness and spider webs and dripping water, until at last they emerged into a cold wind, brilliant sunlight, and the sound of waves breaking on rocks. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I could scarcely move, scarcely breathe, without breaking my own wrist. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He cleared his throat, breaking the rhythm, interrupting the flow of the report. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried not to show him that he was breaking my heart. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Some lords trusted their maesters to read their letters and convey the contents, but Stannis insisted on breaking the seals himself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Most of them had not slept in more than three days, but they could see the end of their ordeal over the breaking waves. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Emily sighed, frustrated with the cipher and frustrated with her dad for breaking her concentration. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Like a hatchling breaking from a shell, Roz climbed out into the world. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“The goshawks,” I say, breaking into a run. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took two long strides forward, breaking off from the others. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I flounder through the water, the edges of the ice breaking off as I step. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“At least you won’t be breaking your back doing farm work.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Dad wheeled the car around frantically and sped back to New London, breaking every traffic rule then on the books. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

His posture was twisted and hunched, as if Tartarus’s breaking the spear had broken something inside him. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She had been arrested, dragged from a bus, charged with breaking the segregation law, and jailed. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Just before noon the phone woke me and I started up with sweat breaking out on my forehead. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“You know, Dad . . . ,” I began, breaking into his reverie. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Soon they would begin breaking down, and the Station Inspector would investigate and it would all be over. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

They flew right through the night and arrived in England just as dawn was breaking. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pressed his four hands to his chest, trying to keep it from breaking in half. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

"Ask Myrtle," said Tom, breaking into a short shout of laughter as Mrs. Wilson entered with a tray. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“What’s Capone going to do, anyway? It’s not like he gets out on the weekends to run around town, breaking people’s legs,” Annie says. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s one of the last friends I have,” she says, her voice breaking. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Piper felt silly, but she kept breaking down and crying as she told Jason what had happened while he was struggling underwater. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Everyone has a breaking point, and guess what? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Taking turns breaking trail through the calf-deep powder, Ang Dorje and I reached the crest of the Southeast Ridge at 5:30, just as the sun edged into the sky. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but they don’t taste funny,” I bragged, breaking the cookie down the middle. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was, she thought, a sound like breaking glass. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

For a year, those words had meant the difference between breaking and bending; they had kept her from shattering in the darkness of the mines. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I waited for my parents to return, to ask what’s wrong, to yell at me for breaking something, but no one came. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I wove the lifebuoy’s rope through the life jackets, around the oars, in and out of the lifebuoy—all round the raft—as yet another precaution against the raft breaking into pieces. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now that she was breaking thousands of messages every year, and examining tens of thousands more, it was now second to none. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As with all code breaking, the work proceeded misstep by misstep. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

"To quiet down the bulls and keep them from breaking horns against the stone walls, or goring each other." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“You stop breaking the rules or I’m going straight downstairs.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

As captain, Pinkie led the team, breaking through the papered hoop that the cheerleaders held at the entrance to the gymnasium. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He surged forward with such power that it was as if, said one witness, “he were breaking from the gate again.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cried out, gasping, breaking through the dark pool. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He’s smoking a lot so he won’t feel hungry all the time; his teeth are breaking apart from decay. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Except instead of biting my nails or breaking out in hives like Lucinda, I seem to be forgetting words. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Meggie was afraid of breaking something when she picked it up. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Was VanQuish really breaking up? Dylan said that you didn’t get along and that you were fighting and you really wanted to be a training agent like Fiona...” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

And as the heavy robothung there, cracks suddenly shot through the stone and it started breaking apart. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I am that thing that falls on water without getting wet and falls to the earth without breaking. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

For some, fear had a way of breaking through the illusion. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

This revolutionary spirit is even breaking out in social studies class. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sarai detected nothing mocking in his voice, but she had to see his face to confirm it, which meant sitting up and breaking the embrace. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t risk him breaking a leg, it said, and Alex guessed that the end of his training was near. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She began to cry, her depraved face breaking into an infant’s grimace; and they moved away from her, leaving her dirty in a dirty room, alone to face her Maker. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, they asked if I knew anything about an accident and you breaking your legs.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

There was a lot of static from her chat breaking through. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bacchus said something about breaking through. Coach, you still have ammo for those ballistae?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He went on to tell me about Dwight breaking his pinkie finger at baseball camp. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The mast of a boat, a silver parachute, Mags laughing, a pink sky, Beetee’s trident, Annie in her wedding dress, waves breaking over rocks. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“If I don’t come, you’ll try and destroy me,” said Mrs. Coulter, breaking away. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I refuse to believe that a little fourth-rate power like North Vietnam does not have a breaking point,” Kissinger told his staff. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Glass breaking, the sizzle of flames, the whack of a nightstick. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Thomas looked around at the arguments breaking out across the Glade, Keepers doing their best to convince people they should take a chance and battle their way through the Griever Hole. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Walking through the door felt like breaking through the water after a long dive to the bottom of a lake. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

No other blade, not though mightier hands had wielded it, would have dealt that foe a wound so bitter, cleaving the undead flesh, breaking the spell that knit his unseen sinews to his will. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Officer Lansing joked, breaking away from his serious demeanor. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

And I heard the sound of breaking glass and the street went dark. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She should bring it up, she owed him that, but a wordless fear had seized her, a fear of breaking delicate things. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I got the message that my mother was breaking a taboo I’d never heard about. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

When I first started working off my debt to Miss Sadie for breaking her Hungarian pot, she said I’d know when I was done. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It looks ripe to me,” Aunt Spiker said, breaking the silence. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He managed to swivel sideways to avoid breaking his legs on impact. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Edwin curled his arms over his head imitating a whale’s head and began to pace around the fire, dipping his head up and down as if breaking through the waves. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The clouds were breaking, and moonlight shot through them to fall across the floor of the valley. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

We heard Freddie, but it was the sound of him breaking through brush again, freeing himself from a bush. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Burnham imagined terrified men, women, and children trying to slide down the glass flanks of the roof and breaking through, then falling two hundred feet to the exhibit floor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And with the cruelty of the world as an excuse for breaking his promise to Ryan, he used his sharp claws to climb the boot lining. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment she thought she saw its mouth stretch into a smile thick with smoke, fractures of light breaking through. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Even before this, the British had spotted how good Elizebeth was at code breaking. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I just have these feelings,” Hibiscus said, his words breaking with emotion. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A blustery dawn was breaking over the basalt fortress as the intention craft flew in from the south. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

To think that when I was a child I always shuddered when I snapped open a banana be­cause it sounded to me like the breaking of an animal’s neck. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then a bug-eyed one that kept cracking his knuckles to make the sound of breaking bones. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask, breaking the ice that never truly goes away between us. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I slipped to the ground, and when I hit the dirt I felt all the pain in my body come pouring back, a fire breaking through a wall and blowing through me. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not talking about breaking the law,” Mr. Griffiths continues, not appearing the slightest bit amused. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“It was a sickening sensation to feel the decks breaking up under one’s feet, the great beams bending and then snapping with a noise like heavy gun-fire,” he wrote later in his diary. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Someone shouted reports of a fight breaking out two streets down. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“And so unsafe! They say they’re likely to explode without warning, and people are always breaking their arms at the crank.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I walked as fast as I could without breaking into a jog. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

What had happened to her was like the breaking of a fine vase. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Colder than the act of breaking in and blindly robbing some fat cat during his vacation. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees were breaking into leaf and a few early dandelions were in yellow flower on the lawns. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I think it was his way of breaking with Dr. Bulkeley,” explained Rachel. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

She and her team put in full days at their tables and desks, breaking codes in the stifling heat. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It still bothered Thomas how Chuck had smiled when breaking the news about Ben being Banished. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I realized that throughout the course of the evening, I wasn’t happy about Craig and Sam breaking up. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The practice was breaking up now, boys loping in from the field, shedding equipment as they streamed past the dugout. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I knew that I had to find a safe way to be myself without breaking the law, or else I would surely go mad. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shall I be disciplined for breaking your jaw?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They didn’t speak, not even when they heard the man breaking through the bushes behind them upstream. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snap of wood and crash of breaking glass grew louder. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The god struggled, flinging the dead aside, breaking off ribs and skulls, but the skeletons kept coming, pinning the god’s arms. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I am breaking the rules as I leave the school. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

On Friday nights, he is a host for a Bible-study and dinner party for seventy or eighty Christian students, who serve themselves heaping plates of pasta before breaking into study groups. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s whatever, Natalie. I don’t care anymore. And I know what happened, by the way. With you guys breaking into the lab—which is seriously stupid.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Then he’s breaking the law by having you here. Do you have any money?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I was tired, and worried about getting down the incline without breaking a leg, so I tossed the pack over the edge and hoped it would come to rest where I could retrieve it. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments, without difficulty. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They need it,” Gabriel said, breaking our silence. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Mike was in the middle of explaining how he had hitchhiked from Ohio to Virginia after breaking out of Caledonia, when Chubs and I finally caught up to them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He traveled at night, and the train reached the place of his destination just as the red winter dawn was breaking. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The families, the coaches, the teachers, the fans were all denying that they even dimly suspected that anyone was breaking any rule at any time. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without breaking eye contact, he walked to her with Misha in tow. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, we could hear it all the way from the kitchen: shouting; and a coffee cup breaking; swear words in both English and Greek; feet stomping out of the house. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"But if they arrest my mom and dad, that's breaking up the family too. And I bet I'd like a research facility a lot more than you'd like the Cook County Jail." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shriek, twisting my forearms around and out, breaking his grasp. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Just a year ago we were groaning over the dismal Christmas we expected to have. Do you remember?” asked Jo, breaking a short pause which had followed a long conversation about many things. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The capture and confession of Klaus Fuchs were like a dam breaking in Lamphere's and Gardner's years-long accumulation of clues, leads, and evidence of an active Soviet espionage ring in the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“This way, I can’t open the bottle without breaking it. When you pay off your debt, you get it back intact and can sleep safe knowing I haven’t kept any for myself.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As she herself once said about code breaking, “It’s a great life if you don’t weaken.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

A secretary typed and filed messages, but the code breaking was up to Elizebeth. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“They haven’t been out today. And of course—” She had a habit of breaking off her sentences in the middle. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

As Tally watched it fade, breaking down into random lines and arcs again as the sparklers extinguished, she wondered if the words were really true. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But when the body failed to come alive and scar my mind forever by breaking the glass and going for my jugular, my initial panic subsided. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Coming to the rail fence, and without breaking his stride, he raised his body into the air. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dawn was breaking, spreading soft pink light across the eastern sky above the city. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You loved who?” he says, his voice breaking. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Clearly, superior breaking speed in a match race was almost always a trump card. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see how it is already gradually breaking down around me. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he also senses his friend's fear of breaking the law. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Once out of sight, they sat on the grass to eat, breaking pieces of apple pie off with their fingers and licking all the sticky sauce before seizing another portion. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now this demon was talking about breaking into the Ice Court, about getting Matthias to commit treason. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In 1951, during a keynote speech about code breaking and the rumrunner years, she spoke up about the general problem of addiction. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I’m breaking the rules. But I don’t know what else to do. I need you three. It just feels right.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I thought it was a miracle that they didn’t start yelling and breaking things and wake up Mr. Farrow. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Their rusted hinges let out a pair of screams, for all those who might have slept through the breaking of the lock. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She believes she’s doing them a favor by giving them a job and breaking them in to American life. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was time for work detail, we were assigned together to the gravel pit, where we worked side by side breaking rocks. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“In this community, polygamists are breaking the law, even if they have married in the presence of a judge, with the statement of ‘I do’ and the signed document in their own hand. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The sound of furniture flying, David shouting, a lamp breaking. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He veered the car wildly, mile after mile, down the road, tumbling, smashing, breaking, scattering bundles of paper, jewel boxes, mirrors, chairs. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piper couldn’t understand how anyone could take so much pain, shoulder so much responsibility, without breaking. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Within a half hour of the president's death, reporters began telegraphing the breaking news to the rest of the nation. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Day before yesterday,” she repeated, breaking off a spray of Mademoiselle’s geranium; “then if you had not met me here to-day you wouldn’t—when—that is, didn’t you mean to come and see me?” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

There is great tension in the world, tension toward a breaking point, and men are unhappy and confused. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The waves beat down on the sand louder at night, breaking even stronger than usual. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I try my best to keep my voice from breaking. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Hadn’t you noticed? I’m breaking all the rules now.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes in farmyards when the cows return well fed from pasture to the barn, one sees the pens give way before the calves in tumult, breaking through to cluster about their mothers, bumping together, bawling. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marigold said softly, breaking the worried silence that had been growing between them. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

But maybe—I dared to hope it—maybe her eyes would light up and she’d smile as if just seeing me was like mountain sunshine breaking through the gray mists of morning. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

A side door jutted forward, breaking some kind of seal with a pressurized hiss, then slid aside giving them a view of plush leather seats occupied by two almost familiar people. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He pitched forward, and she slammed her hand upward, breaking his nose. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

After a while, the girls celebrated their good fortune by breaking into the provisions. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“We're going to have to stop and find shelter,” I said, breaking Pita’s joyful stride with my somber words. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He looked at the iron grilles on their windows, which prevented people from breaking in. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Lizzie said nothing at all as the metallic fingers of the rain pattered about as hard as they could without breaking the glass. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Lillian asked, her voice breaking as she prepared herself for the worst. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A loud shriek came from somewhere on the ship, breaking the spell Taylor’s appearance had cast. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It ended some time later with him breaking down in tears on the floor, clutching at my leg and begging me to forgive him. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I catch the half smile breaking through the wall of his face. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The group went back to walking in silence, with Ivan breaking it every now and then to point at something he found interesting. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He chose to stay and act, even though he knew it would mean breaking the law. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“Oh, for Ford’s sake,” said Lenina, breaking her stubborn silence, “shut up!” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of branches and twigs breaking, of the flowers being crushed. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, the isolation which had suddenly fallen upon his sister after the sudden breaking off of the recital had overwhelmed her. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

“True and true and true. I’m a born leader. I speak my mind. And it’s not like I’m reading people’s diaries or breaking into lockers. I’m observant. Your turn, Lucy.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

If you experience freezing temperatures in winter, check your chickens’ water more frequently, breaking up ice or refilling with warm water as needed. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“You driving that vehicle day or night, you already breaking the law. Nothing I can do for you if you break the law.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Not only were the lights about to fail and the supplies about to run out, but the water system was breaking down. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I rip the canvases into shreds, breaking them into parts—cotton, linen, glue, and aged hemp. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Baptist John was the nickname of a tracker famed for being run over by a police car that was chasing him, breaking his leg. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Without dogs and cats, there’s more food for humans. My dad says if it weren't for the Barons breaking the law, lots of species would have gone extinct.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

This was stretching the truth to breaking point; as far as Harry knew, Ron and Dumbledore had never been alone together, and direct contact between them had been negligible. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Like at school when Leen Ellison answered questions in science class, or like when Grandma yelled at them for breaking one of her porcelain dolls. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“One epidemic in the collection,” he used to say, “and we’ll end up in a road crew breaking up stones.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of breaking for the holidays, it went into a special session with the aim of pushing through to a vote before Christmas. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It’s like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit annihilated the field, breaking the track record while carrying 130 pounds, two more than War Admiral had lugged in the Pimlico Special. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I overheard him tell Edna that his mom took his phone away for the whole weekend because Miss McDaniels told her that he had been breaking school rules when he got hurt. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Tell me how long you’ve been hurting my brother,” Redemption replied, never breaking eye contact. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“But it wasn’t just breaking the rules,” I countered, I guess because I was still trying to hold on to God. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was not going to let Papa know how much my heart was breaking. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“The moon of the Lunas,” my uncle remarked, breaking the silence of the entire trip. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The record shows that people who were indentured servants were often treated harshly and could be severely punished for breaking the agreement. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Spindrift whipping off the crests of breaking waves freezes into sleet. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“The play really means a lot to you, doesn’t it?” asked Kelly, breaking the silence. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

She knew where the boundaries lay; she knew that social reality was not reality at all, but so many rules people could not imagine breaking. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Extra duties, like breaking the open code in the Doll Woman letters in 1944, made her working days even longer. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“We're breaking most of these rules. No pets. No minors. Shower before entering. Swimwear only.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You better be right, Henry,” she says, her voice breaking a little. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you didn’t go to an island,” said the Savage, breaking a long silence. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I tried to stand up, Mami pulled me down, saying something about my falling out and breaking my neck. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Ginny Dulles is breaking up with him, saying it’s just that she likes him as a friend, when the truth is that she likes Brandon Rogers more. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She could feel the heat of Archer’s hand on her elbow and tried to focus on that instead of the dizziness, instead of the breaking and splitting inside her head. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Out in the night the group was breaking up and Brother Jack drew me aside. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The penalty for breaking them was five years in prison. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He was grating nutmegs, cautiously sprinkling in cloves, and breaking up cinnamon bark. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It swiped at him with one paw, tearing open his shoulder and breaking his ribs. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he wouldn’t be breaking off any pinkie bones for Calixte. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“The bond between us is breaking down. That’s good. Good for you, sad for me.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Hans Krebs, the biochemist, was breaking open cells to identify their constituent chemical components. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The ground was now splitting apart, like ice breaking on a frozen pond. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

The Navy didn’t want government code breaking anywhere near the spotlight. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In the OASIS, you could buy almost any kind of information if you knew where to look and who to ask, and if you didn’t mind breaking the law. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Helmick had identified William as the head of the SIS, and she had coyly suggested that the agency was breaking foreign codes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“There’s no way we’re breaking that glass,” she said, following him. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But Jamie had given up helping and instead was breaking thick hunks of crust off the disheveled pies still hanging around the dessert table. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

As if there was a better time to be "breaking in." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Cain teased her—breaking not only her body, but her will...He had to stop it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She flung the obscenity like a challenge into the outraged silence; then, suddenly breaking away from him, ashamed, ashamed, covered her face with her hands, sobbing. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was obvious to everyone that the pack was breaking up all around them, and it would be impossible to take the dogs in the boats. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Now clean cultivation and the chemical destruction of hedgerows and weeds are eliminating the last sanctuaries of these pollinating insects and breaking the threads that bind life to life. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

For a moment Seabiscuit faltered, the ground breaking up under his hooves. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When none came, she sighed a sigh so fraught with disappointment that it sounded as if her heart were breaking. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m breaking up with you,” she said to Claire, then watched as Claire seemed to wither right in front of her eyes. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I hoped that she would not cry, fear breaking up her voice like twigs underfoot. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After that terrorist business, you can’t even search for recipes online without the PSFs snooping and breaking down your door. All they need is one whiff of trouble.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“They don’t play much. And Jules is thinking about breaking things off. She says it’s like she and Adrian are married. They never do anything.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

My classmates, motivated by a desire to “save” me, pestered me until I all but reached the breaking point. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He skirted the edge of the Glade, then, breaking into a run, he headed for his place of seclusion behind the Deadhead forest. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

That day I started to think about how I would escape this marriage without breaking my promise to my family. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

On this, the second day of the journey, barriers were breaking down. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm in this faraway place, falling backwards real slow and dreamy, when I hear a window breaking. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Several pairs of feet breaking into a run. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

All her stories were subject to breaking down at descriptions of food. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he could not be unaware that Lawrence’s program would once again strain the university’s resources beyond the breaking point. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Then a horse kicked him, breaking all the ribs on his left side. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a goofy quality to it, it was changing, breaking down. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Like the desolation of some alien sea breaking on the shores of a world unheard of. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

But she landed without breaking and I took the rope from her neck and closed her eyes. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It is kinky, more pubic than cranial, and whitish blond, breaking off easily, like hay. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I hide under the covers because the breaking is too loud, too strong. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“C’mon,” Tam says, breaking the pause, “let’s get to some feasting.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“They closed the furrier’s and reassigned all the workers inside the camp. Your uncle was made leader of a group breaking rocks. When Goeth demanded to know how much work had been done...” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Heads of Houses moved among the students, marshaling them into position and breaking up arguments. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In those early days, lightning and ultraviolet light from the Sun were breaking apart the simple hydrogen-rich molecules of the primitive atmosphere, the fragments spontaneously recombining into more and more complex molecules. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At noon the men heaved the laden boat out on the backwash of a breaking wave, and the remainder of the stores was ferried out on the Stancomb Wills. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“I can fix it,” Liam swore, his voice breaking, “I can fix it—just—just—keep him talking, okay? I can fix this. I can.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Emily sighed, frustrated with the cipher and frustrated with her dad for breaking her concentration. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Gears grinding and gnashing on each other, breaking teeth, disintegrating. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Well, I have twice done you a wrong which I regret now. One was in breaking the promise which I gave my husband to bring you up as my own child; the other—” she stopped. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

After hearing testimony,Judge Eugene Carter dropped two of the three charges against Claudette—disturbing the peace and breaking the segregation law. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The tape muffled the sound of breaking glass. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

If there was any chance of breaking free, the Boss wanted to be ready for it, and he was burning half a ton of coal a day to keep the engines fired. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Now that it was quiet, Maya could hear almost everything, including every tiny noise that sounded like someone was breaking into their house. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And not only did I know the feeling of something breaking inside me, I also had to watch my mom go through it and basically get paralyzed in a whole different way. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

So this is where my journey of breaking loose from the “system” began. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The jockey burst into frantic urging and Seabiscuit lunged forward, breaking into a dead run. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a very good chance they were going to get caught by Filch or Mrs. Norris, and Harry felt he was pushing his luck, breaking another school rule today. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The guards, who were breaking up the protest inside the camp, sprint toward the fence. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“No, ma’am,” Katherine says, a smile breaking out over her face, making her look like an angel from a painting. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Bring everything we’ll need into this circle,” she told them, “because after I set it up, no one will be able to leave without breaking the boundary.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“The twigs keep breaking,” Dari said as one of the twigs snapped. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Aloud and clearly, breaking that old silence, Ged spoke the shadow’s name and in the same moment the shadow spoke without lips or tongue, saying the same word: “Ged.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

It feels like all my bones are breaking. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m Tiny Shanks,” he said, breaking into a grin. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, Violet. Like, when people start breaking windows and beating each other up, and they have to call in the cops. A riot. You know. Riot?” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Against the stage’s backdrop is a towering screen with an ice-blue dragon’s head breaking out through it. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a sound of undergrowth being disturbed—a click of breaking branches, a weighty pushing through low foliage—and then a kind of large, vaguely irritable snuffling noise. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A vicious bass growling, a shocking snapping sound, and a high keening, suddenly breaking off. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

A golden dawn was breaking in the east, but behind Lady Melisandre’s window in the King’s Tower a reddish light still flickered. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Harry stepped forward and bowed low to the hippogriff without breaking eye contact or blinking. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

When I got into the dining room, I heard the sound of things breaking. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Never once did the thought enter his head, any more than he could have conceived breaking a boat. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

As though she could bind herself back together with rags, keep her body from coming apart at the seams, keep her bits from breaking. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

At the same time I wrote a letter to Washington, breaking the news that my current experiments on the biochemistry of virus reproduction were at best interesting in a nonprofound way. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I shouted, my voice breaking I was trembling so badly. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Cole heard the loud crack of bones breaking in his forearm. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I remember feeling furious at Polly for so stupidly breaking the unwritten rule, but at the same time, being terribly excited about what answer Miss Lucy might give. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom and I kept running, down the staircase into the street, breaking into the darkness with death chasing behind us. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The truth is that my heart was breaking. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

That was where everybody needed to move to give them the best chance of breaking away. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure this is breaking your father’s heart.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But the weird thing is there’s still no sound of nothing behind us, nothing chasing us, no Noise, no branches breaking, nothing. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I dipped the rag again, breaking the balloon. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It really illustrates that even those of us with a lot of attention still have a breaking point.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

By October, as many as six fires were breaking out every day. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

It clattered down the street, breaking into splinters. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I told her about the hospital, the secret world we’d discovered by breaking in. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

There was always time, after the battle ended but while the music was still going strong, when people from the crowd would form cyphers—impromptu breaking circles—and blow your mind. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The car kept breaking down, and everyone chipped in to have it repaired so that they could keep going. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Peregrine clapped her hands as if breaking a spell. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And if it helped her get over it, I accepted any blame she wanted to put on me for the two of them breaking up. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Always the tone of surprise,” he said a little grumpily, breaking free. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

What an odd expression, when the breaking of her neck had seemed to happen in slow motion. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The only sound he could hear came from the regular, quiet breaking of delicate waves from the beach beyond the palm trees at the edge of the garden. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel felt as if she were expanding to the breaking point, just like that spire in the pit. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Did the German song suit, Miss March?” inquired Mr. Brooke, breaking an awkward pause. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom felt that Grandma Smith nagged and badgered, setting rules and punishments for breaking the rules. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He came unwillingly, letting his father know that he was breaking his back to restore the patron’s wealth while the rest of them would remain as poor as they had been before. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Huge chunks of ice were breaking away from their berg all the time. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He gave one to Sister McCandless, who nodded and smiled, not breaking her rhythm, and he put the rest on a chair near Sister Price. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“You could be charged with breaking the second commandment.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He was just moving toward them when three sections of the ceding suddenly collapsed, breaking apart in a crunch of plaster and metal. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The gnarled, smaller trees became taller pines, the undergrowth thinning, the brook breaking into occasional rapids. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I grit my teeth and stick my hand into the hole, and now there’s sweat breaking on my forehead in the cold. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“How tempting it is to lose myself in you. To let go. To let you keep me from breaking chandeliers rather than constantly worrying about it, myself.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She worried that if either action became routine, she could have a bad accident, spraining an ankle, breaking a bone, or worse. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Tired from crying, he had fallen asleep after soiling himself and dropping and breaking the bottle of milk. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The fighting came right outside, gunfire and breaking glass, and when the shots finally slowed and stopped, Henek crept up to the street. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“But you heard the ranger—they’ve been looking for a way to get him off our island. Sounds like he can’t risk breaking any more laws.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

And you can hear glass breaking, which is part of what makes me wonder if people were jumping. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I will give the man the gift on the morrow,” she announced as she was breaking her fast. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Saw them rock back and forth, the sound of their hearts breaking, weeping, sobbing, all in the pitch of pain. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He advocated teaching poor as well as rich children, breaking down a subject to its elements, and a broad, liberal education along with teacher training. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

There’s so much to talk about with him, she thought, breaking into a light jog. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Chou and I sit and worry about what will happen to us because we don’t think we can jump without breaking our legs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept thinking of Mia’s smile that day in the kitchen, the capability she saw there to delight in mischief, in breaking the rules. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was the sound of many minds breaking at the same time. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Happiness, like a light inside me, breaking into a million pieces. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Self consciously, with his authoritative arms breaking the way, we pushed through the still gathering crowd, passing a hurried doctor, case in hand, who had been sent for in wild hope half an hour ago. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She was typing away, and her fingers must have been breaking land-speed records. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tries breaking out of my grapple as I rattle him, but no dice. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He tried small twigs, breaking them into litde pieces, but that was worse than the grass. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she whacked him across the face and his nose made a crack like a branch breaking. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“You are finished here,” Mr. Das said, breaking the silence. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“If I rub the needle with the lodestone, I’ll magnetize it. Basically I’ll turn it into a compass needle. If we can get it to float on the water without breaking the surface tension...” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly everyone had dropped out by now, having decided that doing homework would be easier than the work of creating and breaking the class ciphers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

"Sometimes you just have to ..." Zero said, then he hit the jar against the blade of the shovel, breaking the top of the jar clean off. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The girl was still there, still appealing from behind the breaking barricade of rouge. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could not make out her words, but the sound of the voice was hers, and I was running, breaking from the parade and running toward her. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Cluny made it clear that the success of the attack depended solely on the battering ram breaking through the main gate. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A couple of people glance over at him without breaking their conversations. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Why was he insisting that she was alive, taking me on this search and breaking my heart all over again? How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Billy asks gleefully, breaking the moment of silence. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

My community might be upset as well, because I am breaking the culture of silence. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Starvation of men as another means of breaking them, and the floggings for which Lynds had been famous, were viewed by the legislative panel as less innocuous than he pretended. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at me with great pity, his heart breaking for the second time that day. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The sailor began smashing and breaking open cabin doors that had jammed. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Or over the rush of breaking the rules? X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, I kept breaking needles and accidentally stabbing myself and showing up to school with too many Band-Aids on my fingers, prompting my teachers to shoot me even weirder looks than usual. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

They'd made it seem like I was breaking up with them, not him. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Live wires flung free, fires breaking out, rubble making a familiar path a maze. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

His fiancée—he’s still calling Delilah his fiancee because she still has his grandmother’s ring—tried breaking up with him last night. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She was standing by the counter, already breaking up some dried fish, extracting the needlelike bones. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The conjurer said, “Start breaking things down in here, boy. I want to leave by noon tomorrow. Red, go see if Madame Sabbar is all right. Reverend, we need to talk.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Nothing upset him more than someone breaking a promise. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“That would never have occurred to me,” she said, “breaking it like that. Now, what did you say? Oh, yes, I have my eraser.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The men reached out eagerly, their faces breaking out in smiles as they mumbled, “Arigatō.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When he asked for permission to publish articles about the early history of code breaking, the NSA forbade him to do any such thing. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He felt the ripping of his skin all over again and heard once more the breaking of his bones. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Although his voice was stern, Stella could see that even he was trying to keep his face from breaking into a smile. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then we heard more: doors slamming, a cry from Hua-hua, crash after crash of dishes breaking overhead, and the indistinct voices of the Red Guards. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I broke the surface and found Mo had already climbed onto a small rock, barely breaking the water's surface. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Were they breaking the circuit of the fever or what? Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

There in the gray shadows of a breaking dawn, I cried until I could cry no more. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shuddered and, breaking into a trot, closed the gap between myself and the stranger's horse. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

And it looked like Deborah’s son Alfred was taking the same path as his uncles: by the age of eighteen, he’d already been arrested several times for minor offenses, like breaking and entering. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Yes, it was she talking, with her customary aplomb, breaking his heart in the drugstore. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Elizebeth gave her new recruits a “crash course” in code breaking, all while carrying on with her usual workload. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I have to remind myself not to text her too often—it’s hard breaking the habit, but I know she’s busy starting her new life. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

As Lyddie watched, she could feel the hardness inside herself breaking, like jagged cracks across granite. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

"Are you thinking of breaking the law? You'd better tell me." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Wal-Mart employees who have bucked the company—by getting involved in a unionization drive or by suing the company for failing to pay overtime—have been fired for breaking the company rule against using profanity. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The device raised a clanging racket, sounding, Pollard remembered later, “like all hell breaking loose.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I could sense her anger rising to its breaking point. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Weinberg-Salam theory exhibits a property known as spontaneous symmetry breaking. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know he slept through us breaking in?” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then, the sound of glass breaking followed by my father howling like a sad dog. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Emma’s attempts to stop her father had been vain; and when he had reached such a point as this, she could not wonder at her brother-in-law’s breaking out. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Because the starting gates of the day had no doors, the only breaking signal horses received was the ring of a bell. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your Honor,” Max said, his voice breaking from an intensity of emotion. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“He was accused of breaking into a drugstore.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could Charlie breaking up with her really make her this mad? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Percy could hear them breaking down the cabin doors, scuffling with his friends. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He crumpled the other boy, breaking his jaw. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

There was never any comfortable way to mention or discuss one’s successes without breaking the rule against bragging, even if one didn’t mean to. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

"I don't know . . ." she said at last, her voice breaking. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There was whistling and cheering and breaking glass. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Until that moment I didn't know heartbreak was a real and physical breaking. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“But it’s not breaking and entering if you’ve got a key.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Take this,” I say, breaking in half a torta I have bought from a vendor. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I saw two black policemen breaking down a door at the far end of the yard. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were heroes, breaking down racism through cross-cultural adoption. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once we were into the trees, Edward slung me over his back without breaking stride. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

For half a heartbeat the night came alive with a thousand smells, and Jon Snow heard the crackle of the crust breaking on a patch of old snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Walls of evergreen trees fall and rise, breaking open to reveal wide meadows. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to tell without breaking into all of their info—personal emails, private messages, stored Memories—encrypted things even Henka Games isn’t allowed to have access to. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sound of the man’s sternum and ribs breaking, the squeal of the door’s hinges as they continued to stress over the obstacle keeping the door open— Mark felt a rush of horror at himself. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Too bad for you. said Lina, and she set off across Torrick Square, walking fast at first and then breaking into a run. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Next I heard a sound like ice breaking, and, looking up, I saw the moon crack apart and start to fall. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Schmid put his arms around Spassky’s shoulders, saying: “Boris, you promised me you would play this game here. Are you breaking that promise?” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Raising my head to look at the room was like breaking the surface of the water for air. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the distance he heard a dip in the sound of the singing, some startled voices breaking the flow, but then the song rose again, defying the darkness. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But it wasn’t breaking the rule that I was worried about. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The first time I heard my parents tell the story about leaving Panamá, my mom said, “Our hearts kept breaking each time we walked out the door.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I’d seen Psycho Mong mess with almost every kid in the Lighthouse, heard stories about him breaking residents’ arms and all that, but I’d never seen dude go after an adult. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Dawn was just breaking, but the whole camp seemed to be stirring. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Opening it was to risk breaking it in pieces. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He took the small bottle and slammed it on the cement, breaking it into shards and blades. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“We re not going to break anything. Don’t think of it as breaking in to SeaWorld. Think of it as visiting SeaWorld in the middle of the night for free.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“What?” the Owner snapped into the receiver, breaking off the phone midsqueal. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Libby arrived, panting, breaking the news about the audition in the first place. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I’ve made a hobby out of breaking into houses, living the high life and moving on. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

There came the sound of more windows breaking farther on down the street. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t mention how nice it was to see them working together or praise them in any way, for fear of breaking the spell. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know what to think when he did that. Or when I saw him breaking the hull up for firewood when there’s driftwood for that.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

But sure as hell whoever was doing the sharpshooting from over there had sized up his situation and knew which way he would be breaking. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Franklin is standing at the stove, breaking spaghetti over a pot and dumping the noodles into boiling water. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She thought about how Tori slowed down when she drove, and how Mr. Rittenhauer had accused them of breaking into the school, all because of their skin tone. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

"I didn't plan on breaking the rules," I say. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

As she worked, Elizebeth had to come to terms with the fact that her own vital role in wartime code breaking was vanishing from sight, too. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

"If I keep them any more in line," their mother began—and then Sandi heard her mother's voice breaking. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

We end up breaking all of the bottles to get enough glass pieces. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

His tail lashed sideways and caught the pitmaster creeping up behind him, breaking him in two. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Silver shapes were moving in it, emerging from below and breaking the black surface of the water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rather, their psyches had been pushed by extraordinary events to the breaking point, and they had experienced a sort of nervous collapse. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

The hoses that connected the rover and trailer were designed well, and released without breaking. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it was, we were breaking about a hundred health codes. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

And not just ’cause moving felt like breaking my leg all over again. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

She looked down and saw the glint of silver coins...thousands of old Roman denarii breaking the surface all around her, as if the entire hilltop was coming to a boil. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As if he was waiting for cops to come breaking through the windows. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

You know, breaking words into small parts and sounding them out. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you did this without breaking the stem in half, you’d have meat for dinner waiting for you at home. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

His mother’s and father’s voices are high and frantic, breaking. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s not that I care a whoop what becomes of you, but for the dogs’ sakes I just want to tell you, you can help them a mighty lot by breaking out that sled. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That young idealist must be floundering somewhere at this very moment. It will break the girls’ hearts, just as it’s breaking mine. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon they were breaking even the toughest codes and ciphers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Finally, Mr. White cracked a smile and stood smartly upright again, breaking the spell. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She walked in perpetual fear of tripping and falling, of breaking an ankle stepping into a pothole. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Finally, they veered away and, breaking into a joyous gallop, dashed over the snow and out of sight. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or he would kill me by clubbing me with one of his great paws, breaking my neck. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the same as always—chopping wood, breaking rocks, building new camp buildings. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

You imitated the sound of the comb breaking and clapped your hands. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Yes, but an almost all-powerful entity can figure out a way to give me what I ask without breaking its own laws, can’t it? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He rubs his forehead, face breaking into a smile. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Someone cries out, breaking the silence; then there’s sobbing from one group, and then another. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“But the eggs kept breaking. We probably need help.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

That April he was taken off high-pressure code breaking and discharged from active duty in the Army. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Our Volkswagen was always breaking down, and my mom would take it there to get it repaired. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

This had the effect, at least, of breaking the trance-like state we’d been in, and we gathered round her to listen, the way we might have done at Hailsham when a guardian started to speak. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where is that guidebook?” he asks, finally breaking eye contact and making a show of looking around the room. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed as if our worlds were different now and our connection was breaking. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Murmurs and sighs, shuffling noises, the tinkle of something small breaking. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Which is good because I’m about two steps away from breaking her nose. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The final stage of breaking to the cricket standard was by mock combats. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was coming so fast that she had the brush popping and breaking as she crashed through and over it. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each morning they’d trek to the airfield with one woman breaking snow up to her waist for the rest of the line. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Well,” she said, breaking the silence, and with an edge to her voice. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a feeling that things were finally, decidedly, breaking toward the prosecution. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I’m not gonna guard you, Dad. I won,” Ben said, his voice almost breaking. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be no hour of daylight when she was not marching to and fro between the washtub and the line, alternately gagging herself with clothes pegs and breaking forth into lusty song. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“In fact,” said Cowslip, breaking into a run, “I’ll go myself.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peeta is still eating, breaking off bits of roll and dipping them in hot chocolate. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

As Harry’s birthday dinner would have stretched the Burrow’s kitchen to breaking point even before the arrival of Charlie, Lupin, Tonks, and Hagrid, several tables were placed end to end in the garden. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

That mission continued, but now he had a new one: breaking into the secret messages of foreign powers whenever American security required it. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

My heart is breaking, but underneath there’s this flickering flame of fury, too. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Neither Elizebeth nor her team was fluent in Chinese, but Elizebeth had learned some basic characters while breaking another drug case earlier that year. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Not only did William help oversee a massive expansion of Army code breaking, but he also played a key role in several high-level Allied missions. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I tried to concentrate on it to keep from breaking down. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Therefore, if that guy was breaking with Ebola, he might have caught it by breathing it in the air. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, neither of us had any hesitation in breaking off work for the weekend. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Shadow was puzzled to realize that he was far more concerned with breaking the rules by climbing onto the Carousel than he had been aiding and abetting this afternoon’s bank robbery. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Osh had built our cottage from whatever he could wrestle off the nearest shipwrecks that were slowly settling into the seabed, breaking up in storms, and otherwise disappearing, bit by bit. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It took every ounce of his willpower, but he looked directly into Gaily s eyes, never breaking contact. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He gave the noose a final pull, breaking the bird's neck. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Her leg was swinging like a pendulum, and the troll’s breath was breaking over her face in rancid waves. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Understandably, they were afraid of another fire breaking out. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I heard a sudden snap, the sound breaking my—but not your—reverie. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

There had never been a chance before, since no one except Claudette Colvin had ever pleaded not guilty to breaking the segregation laws in a bus arrest. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

She looked like she’d be capable of much more, like breaking his nose or a brutal fishhook. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Look at that. The top of the frost is gone already. Another few days like this, and it will be all gone. Then we will have the tractor in here again, breaking everything up.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Gendry was too stubborn to make one for her, so she had made her own by breaking the bristles off a broom. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But then I heard a bigger thump and something breaking, and I hurried into the hospital and up the front stairs without another thought. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“So they promised you a throne, did they? Really, Henry, you are not fool enough to believe they will deliver it,” said Ripred, breaking into a laugh. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I knew we could count on you,” Nicolas replied, his voice breaking with gratitude. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And best of all, Hannah, in her black slip dress, combat boots, and no makeup, isn’t breaking a single rule. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The sound of a twig breaking was Cole’s only warning. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Any leak at that point would ruin Sheehan’s chances of breaking what James Reston was now calling “the greatest story of the century.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

For a night and a day Selitos stood helpless beside Lanre and could do nothing more than watch and listen to the screams of the dying, the ring of iron, the crack of breaking stone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

What people don't tell you about this part of breaking up is the embarrassment. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Being this close to her silence is like my heart breaking all over the place. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Trespassing on someone’s land was tantamount to breaking into his house. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The raven was pecking at an egg, breaking the shell. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You know, it’s perfectly legal to shoot someone for breaking and entering.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

On the early Gemini flights, we were worried about the machinery breaking, and so we decided it would be a good idea for one of the two men to be awake at all times. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sighs and I realize he’ll never feel the thrill of breaking the surface, fist raised, mud dripping down his wrist. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The media makes a big deal out of a movie star breaking a leg or fracturing a toe, but if a man with as much wisdom as my father passes away, no one cares. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The breaking and crushing were gone, and the love pushed inside his chest, and when he cried now, it was because she loved him so much. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What my father calls a natural talent. I find it harder not to influence my surroundings, I was constantly breaking things as a child.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Dawn is just breaking as I retrieve a set of bow and arrows and begin to force a path through the drifted snow in the woods. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He caught her by surprise, and before she could help herself, her heart was breaking for him. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Didn’t she know she was breaking all the rules? The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“But if the window is open, there’s no breaking involved. Only entering. And we just did entering at the SunTrust, and it wasn’t that big of a deal, right?” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

But sometimes off to either side the dry limbs breaking sounded like gunshots, causing him to cringe and swear softly to himself. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard his voice breaking up as he said it. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Howard did his best to warm them to the idea of rescheduling the match, even setting aside his heretofore paramount goal of breaking Sun Beau’s earnings mark. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re very serious,” she said, breaking out of her own mood and looking up at me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mark’s heart was breaking.The question had no good answer. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The moon had long since disappeared and now the dawn was breaking. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There he lifted us high as breaking waves threatened to knock us down. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she added with her familiar bite, "Why you breaking in this time of night?" When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

It burst apart, its boards breaking like kindling. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I am breaking the rules as we get into Justin’s car. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

And yet everything radiates tension, as if the city has been built upon the skin of a balloon and someone is inflating it toward the breaking point. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, like a lump of submerged wreckage breaking the surface of water, the thought burst into his mind: “It doesn’t really happen. We imagine it. It is hallucination.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I ask, breaking my pastel in two, snapping it, like a neck. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Ship breaking was too dangerous to not have trust. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But so romantic,” Mrs. Das said dreamily, breaking her extended silence. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Do you like to watch them breaking horses?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I draw a girl breaking apart the sun until one star becomes a hundred stars, because she wants to cover the world in beauty. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The man could have me jailed for breaking into his house—or he could shoot me for breaking in. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, English frequencies were no help in breaking Lim’s messages, which were thought to be in Chinese. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But when he was touching the breaking point he held steady and settled back against the strain of the line. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

His very heart was bleeding, and it took all the manhood of him—and there was a royal lot of it, too—to keep him from breaking down. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

There was the occasional sound of breaking glass, the growl of a low-flying helicopter. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She had far more experience and skill in code breaking than he did, and she had created the unit. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

That was a lie, of course, and I could see Emma’s heart breaking as she told it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Your signal is breaking up and I lost most of it. Understand ... pilot... you can’t fly. Correct? Over.” Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ignore the fact that Maman and Du Barry would be upset with me for breaking protocol. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

A breaking and entering when even the senses are torn apart. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dawn was breaking over the hills, casting light on summit after summit. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A ripple spread outward in subsiding circles, breaking both the reflections and the transparency. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed to be breaking up before one’s eyes, like a mountain crumbling. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

So over the next five or six days, I told him whatever he wanted to know, and he’d lie there, all hooked up, a gentle smile breaking through. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his stupor, he was unable to react in time—the man reached out and tore the Transvice out of his hands, breaking the strap in the process. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I figure you’ve got about five minutes or you’re going to miss your bus,” Mom pointed out, breaking my thinking spell. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the way she helped me—as no human, really, could have helped me—by breaking down the interspecies interlock and letting her mind come into my thinking...There was such care, such love. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Luma counted the episode as a hard lesson, and vowed not to let any player, no matter how talented, get away with breaking team rules. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Then March came, breaking the back of winter with warmth permeating the cold, and with the smell of spring drifting daily to tease hope and to give shy promise of a coming radiance. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could almost imagine each new stick and stump it swallowed forcing the denner resin deeper into its gizzard, mixing it around, breaking it up, forcing it to dissolve. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The thunder’s enough to turn the grass sour, but not much hope of it breaking before the evening, I’d say.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You shouldn’t’ve spoken to me,” she said in a breaking voice that revealed the depths of her disillusionment. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a young woman, she had played a key role in code breaking during World War I. She later cracked the codes of American mobsters, smashing their crime gangs. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Not like breaking one of those old tankers. These little ships come apart easy.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“What happened to the good dying young?” he said, his voice breaking. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The horse stepped forward, walking slowly at first, and then breaking into a quick trot. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A day never went by without one of them breaking into song, reciting a sonnet, or dancing a jig. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He seemed to have forgiven Tessie for breaking off' their engagement years ago, but it was always there in the air between them, like the talcum powder that sometimes puffed out of his clerical collar. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But another rule says Never Talk to Strangers, which I was breaking. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Dalgard was extremely dismayed and couldn’t rule out the possibility that the man was breaking with Ebola. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, like any desperate type, I start breaking into them. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

For a moment Meggie thought she could hear the sea breaking in the distance, but perhaps it was only the traffic on the nearby highway. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I don’t have a pass, he said, his voice breaking. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was the breaking of an unspoken agreement between us—a very basic agreement—and he knew it. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Actually, I can’t come today,” I finally blurt out, my voice barely breaking a whisper. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Schmid recalled later that “for a second, I didn’t know what to do. Then I stopped Spassky’s clock, breaking the rules. But somehow I had to get that incredible situation under control.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Curious, Celia picks a frosted peony from its branch, the stem breaking easily. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I draw a dragon breaking free from its grave and finally seeing what its wings and fire are for. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s a breakup line. Unless you’re breaking up—” Jason leaned over and kissed her. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And for her part, she tolerates him better than she does any of the rest of us, even breaking off some of her bread to give him at lunchtime. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Taylor saluted formally and rode off, the grin breaking across his face just as he turned. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart was breaking in my chest at the thought of tiny, eight-year-old Sahil realizing people were so much more adoring of his brother. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He turned his head slowly, without breaking his forward movement of alternately planted poles and thrust skis, rhythmically but feebly continuous like a homemade piston engine’s. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One of your retainers, you say? How did he thread the string without breaking the shell?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Back and forth the flare gun flew, the girls never breaking stride. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

After breaking Bud that spring, Shawn had taken up horses in a serious way. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

From down the hill we heard the sound of breaking glass and rough, coarse laughter, and then six demon soldiers walked by, their blanket rolls bulging with loot, valuables tucked into their belts. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there is only the sound of my breathing and what I’m sure is the stretching of my heart’s sinewy muscle as it reaches its breaking point. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“So, what you said earlier. About breaking up. You never answered me.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Unless there was the sound of breaking glass, screams, or splintering furniture, Mr. Larson didn’t even look up. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

She is breaking down and depleted and her mind is too full and she just can’t go on. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He was an English gentleman to the outside world, and he did not want to ruin his reputation by breaking the rules of society. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually something happens: the criminal's resolve starts breaking down, and he begs and pleads with the guards or tries to cut a deal or an extension, or sometimes even tries to break out. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

With their scant budget pushed to the breaking point, the Friedmans were always in debt. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He wrapped me in blankets, fed me, and when my fever showed no signs of breaking on its own, he used the money I’d brought to buy a bittersweet medicine. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Hide was better than a tree because you had a chance of breaking the line if you were discovered. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I need to get him away from the others where we can discuss breaking away. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mother asked, a broad smile breaking across her face. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sun escaping from the breaking clouds, as it sank towards the hills they had left, was now shining brightly again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Ringtones cut through the darkness, breaking the sleep of a dozen other people in the square, people who will travel with us. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were forced down a steep flight of stairs, still tied back-to-back and in danger of slipping and breaking their necks at any moment. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

My hand jerks out and hits the trophy—I’m not sure if it was an accident or not—and it falls to the floor, breaking into several pieces. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The hairs on my head were standing up like the bristles of a nail-brush and a cold sweat was breaking out all over me. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

We also laugh and joke around and manage to finish the entire bowl of gummies without breaking off any of Emily’s brackets. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He felt that his heart was breaking in two pieces, and that the madness which she had given him once before might well be coming again. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lashed onto the bottoms of their boots, the things somehow allowed them to walk on top of the snow without breaking through the crust and sinking down to their thighs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He put his hoe down into the ground with a long even movement and with great care, breaking up the tiniest clod in the soft earth already well cultivated. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“How touching! My, my! I notice that it’s always me you come to when in trouble. But I’ve never heard of anyone’s heart breaking on my account. Oh, no. Who cares anything about old Templeton?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

We drive past the same kind of ruins I saw when we left the city—the buildings collapsing under their own weight, and the plants roaming wild over the land, breaking through concrete. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

And then a glass cylinder is lowering around me, breaking our handhold, cutting him off from me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The room felt damp, the clay breaking into small muddy chunks under our feet. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

A wind—out of nowhere—making her hair fly, and everyone breaking into a choreographed song and dance at the exact same time. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he sounded as if she were breaking his heart. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They tortured people to get information about who was breaking Islamic law. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I needed to break someone, but in the end, all that breaking only breaks yourself—and I knew it, I just couldn’t stop myself. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Tweaking Miss Lilian’s skirts, knocking pictures off the walls, breaking knickknacks, slamming doors, hiding her jewelry, taking her money—small things compared to what she’d done to us. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

To compound our problem, my parents came from different tribal reserves, and in the event of the family breaking up, I did not know whether my mother would be allowed into my father’s tribal reserve. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

You did hate him for breaking that school swimming record, but so what? A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The meeting was breaking up just as Stella decided she and Tony were about to surely freeze to death. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Far below them, in the City of New York, something like pandemonium was breaking out. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

“The smoke’s getting thicker,” Tad said, breaking the silence. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

From inside, there was the noise of shouting and something breaking. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was cutting a tree when a branch dislodged and struck him, breaking his neck. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We appreciate the abstruse concept of equations breaking down through an example, division by zero, which we can understand for ourselves in either of two ways. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

There was sorrow in Kino’s rage, but this last thing had tightened him beyond breaking. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, I fill a plate with rolls and sit at the table, breaking oil bits and dipping them into hot chocolate, the way Peeta did on the train. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He moved each foot carefully because the sound of rocks rolling down and dry branches breaking would echo in the canyon, and if they were close enough, they would know he was getting away. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The ice was breaking up on it now, with just a few glazed islands of ice remaining in the center and a fringe of hard surface glinting along the banks. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had great difficulty breaking them, not being able to pull much with his arm or chest muscles, but finally got enough to keep the fire going all day and into the night. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

We wanted to join the breaking scene in this new city and see where it would take us. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She barely has time to finish before Anderson Cooper is back onscreen with breaking news. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They met each other’s gaze for only a second before breaking into a sprint, skipping stairs two at a time. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Now the City Circle’s packed with refugees, and the Peacekeepers are going door to door, breaking into places if they have to, to assign houseguests. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Within a year, the Communists did attack, breaking the treaty. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Another woman trips, breaking her heel, and is consoled by her husband. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was heavy work, and boring; there was nothing to it but swinging my pickax again and again, breaking off big chunks of salt that another prisoner shoveled into a donkey cart. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The oily, scummy water lay still in front of them, an occasional ripple breaking languidly on the pebbles. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A thin crust of snow cracked beneath the hooves of their horses, with a sound like breaking bones. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Like the certainty that your body is a single whole, that there’s something keeping you from breaking into pieces and scattering with the winds. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Under the new rules, access to information about code breaking became more restricted. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then again, considering how we had ended things after he’d beaten an innocent homeowner bloody, I wouldn’t be surprised if he’d progressed to breaking kneecaps for profit. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Until now, they had limited their attacks to unarmed ffeedmen, cutting them down in the streets or breaking into their homes under the cover of darkness to murder them in their beds. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Styx made it sound like breaking the rules wasn’t really so bad as long as you didn’t get caught. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And just as she thought that her breath was breaking, that the blood might burst through her ears, Jinny felt her feet touch bottom, and she let herself collapse. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But then, it was inevitable, like gravity, like night and day, little apple-bites when God's back is turned, her name fell, bastardized, breaking into a half dozen nicknames—"pobrecita Yosita"—another nickname. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

How will I do this without breaking both of our hearts? Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You do, eh? Which do you worry about? His breaking a leg or his not having a phone when you want him to?” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Whoever he was, he had caught her breaking a law. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you worry about us,” said one of the Death Eaters, “worry about yourself, breaking curfew!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Ferula abhorred the moment when her brother returned from the country and filled the house with his presence, breaking the harmony they had established while he was away. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Feverishly he followed in periodicals the Dadaist movements and schisms, the strangely feminine jealousies and religiousness, the obscurantisms of the forming and breaking schools. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath the blankets, I shiver convulsively, pieces of me breaking off onto my pillow. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Our case was far more than a trial of legal issues between the Crown and a group of people charged with breaking the law. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside in the darkness, the endless mass of pack ice was grinding against itself like a restless giant breaking mountains in its sleep. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

After the Mass, the celebrant had passed out through a stained-glass lamb in one of the church windows, without breaking the glass, thus signifying the immaculate conception. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If anyone finds out about this, the entire Bureau would be shut down for breaking its oath.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it is,” Magdalys said, but she couldn’t keep the smile from breaking out across her face. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It didn’t help that Ron kept breaking into silent giggles and Hermione kept tutting. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I heard the crack of bones breaking, the thud of a body collapsing. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fellow left as quickly as he could manage without actually breaking into a run. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But in a timid, breaking voice Tessie asked, “Will she be able to have children?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It felt like he was breaking open on the inside, all the mental blocks he’d put up to protect himself rupturing one after another, flooding him with blood and bile. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“No, neither of them has been ready so far. But I can see some fine old fights breaking out when they are.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

La Belle Sauvage was worrying him to madness—was she breaking apart? The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Remind me if breaking and entering is a felony.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

But it was like yelling at a breaking dam. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A group of guys started an "astral projection" circle, where they would sit around a card table and concentrate on breaking down all their molecules into subatomic material and drifting through the fences. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Then there was a terrible shattering sound, as if something alive was breaking apart. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We were almost there,” she says, her voice high and breaking a little. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I kicked his door and told him, “You’re breaking your promise.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds were breaking like a roof opening above our heads. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Dolorous Edd pushed open the door and hopped down, his boots breaking the crust of the last snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Last year at this time, he had never even heard of Circle Justice—he hadn’t heard of it until his latest arrest for breaking into a hardware store. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“I agree with Prosper,” Hornet said breaking into the silence. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I guess he hadn’t expected to see three kids breaking into a botany lab. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Run, run, you fool, before the waves of hurt start breaking. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why she would risk breaking the rules to look the god of love in the face, because she feared he might be a monster. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She clapped her hands and settled down to watch this language of jumps and tumbles, elated that she was at last breaking the wolf code. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was so crazy digging worms by lamp light and setting out for Lake Sabelia after midnight that she felt like a child breaking rules. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Race had become, yet again, a powerful wedge, breaking up what had been a solid liberal coalition based on economic interests of the poor and the working and lower-middle classes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m breaking the rules just sitting here with you.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

For breaking down this way and putting him in this uncomfortable position. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Thalia turned to help some of the Aphrodite kids, who were having trouble suiting up their armor without breaking their nails. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Now my heart is breaking because I’m alone on the wrong side of the border. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Francie turned and went down into the cellar and sat in the dark a long time waiting until the waves of hurt stopped breaking over her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthias’s chair clattered on its side as he sprang forward, breaking free from the restraining paws of the Abbot. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry for breaking things off with you,” she said. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He alerted the shopkeeper, who lay in wait; sure enough, that night the shopkeeper saw the intruders breaking in and blew one of them away with his single-barreled, 12-gauge shotgun. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

If I get caught, I'll go straight to jail for breaking the law, so that idea isn't a very good one. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

One hand came up to fist in his hair, and there was something breaking in his voice when he spoke again. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

If Enigma operators slipped up and used the same settings more than once, breaking the cipher was much easier. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was as if Times Square were a kind of shell, with colors and noises breaking in great waves inside it. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What if humans began to evolve and sprout wings?” he said, never breaking his stare at the dark sky. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“They almost broke. I could feel them breaking. I thought for a moment ... I saw our flags go up the hill . . . I almost thought ...” Longstreet said, “It wasn’t that close.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the same, breaking Albus’s nose at the funeral was not decent. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

After several heartbeats came the sound of glass breaking and loud whoops. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She answered him in monosyllables, as though he had betrayed her by breaking the rules of her pretense. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He thought about it while the rain picked up against the roof, the only sound breaking the silence. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

There were sporadic yells of MOJO! but the crowd in the cafeteria didn’t become animated until the screen showed running back Shawn Crow breaking tackle after tackle in the quarterfinal playoff game against Arlington. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stayed in an hour, breaking off every few minutes to come back to me and talk. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hoarse and breaking with warmth and he fumbled among his words, feeling for them in the dark. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was sorry for the two little bonobos and, I guess, obscurely apologizing on my mom’s behalf, for her choosing to stay six years ago and breaking us all up. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s that girl breaking her way out of that rock at Guillermo’s. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The pod wrapped around the cable without breaking it and detected the signals through a process called induction. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I replied that there was this flaw about the bubbles being bigger than the universe, but that the basic idea of a slow breaking of symmetry was very good. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like code breaking, it was a pursuit that required patience, precision, and attention to detail, and she was good at it. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And he said those words because he sensed that it was the only way to save his own heart, to stop it from breaking in two. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I want to force myself to smile, but I think my heart might be breaking. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Wild celebrations were breaking out across the country, as Americans everywhere cheered the Allied victory. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Competing in black silk shorts that his mother had sewn from the fabric of a skirt, he won an 880-yard race, breaking the school record, coheld by Pete, by more than two seconds. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

There’s rumors of the Argentinian navy breaking out of its ports and cutting off our sea lines to Ascension Island. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Now she saw him and she asked, breaking off her conversation with Roy: “You hungry, little sleepyhead?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I heard footsteps, a deep echo in the ground, and then branches breaking. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“I belonged to a gang. It was when your father was breaking them up.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

This quality was continually breaking through his punctilious manner in the shape of restlessness. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Tyrion was never much use in making a camp or breaking one. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

None of it taught her anything new about code breaking. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He ran from die shelter to the pines and started breaking off the low, dead small limbs. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of breaking and Uhmma’s deep wail haunt the room. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The body responds by breaking into a sweat. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The words fall, breaking in front of me for both of us to see. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then the bricks cling to each other without breaking. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"A witch will never do silly things like climbing up drainpipes or breaking into people's houses. You'll be quite safe in your bed. Come along. I'll tuck you in." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“It can go days without breaking. It’ll be dark in a few hours, and then we’ll have to hope we can last until morning without the wights finding us. We’ll be utterly defenseless.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

"Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Amid much rejoicing, the crews of the three small boats raised sail and forged ahead, spray breaking over their bows and freezing on the men and all the contents of the boats. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Whenever she finds some with her cane, she stops and bends and tries to lift the thin plate without breaking it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“A sad little hope,” he said without breaking stride or looking in my direction. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Soon she would be talking strategy and battle moves and breaking out her dice, just for luck. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Laurie devoted himself to the little ones, rode his small daughter in a bushel-basket, took Daisy up among the bird’s nests, and kept adventurous Rob from breaking his neck. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent an hour on the phone breaking my news. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was a child's vow from fairy tales, where breaking it was a curse, and it was more powerful to Lazlo than any vow on god or monarch would have been. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Dawn was breaking by then, and the Wood was slowly coming into light. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He and Roberto wrapped the gallon water bottle with burlap and sewed it tightly to keep the bottle from breaking. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, the bird never once flapped a wing, plowing back to earth like a shot, causing a minuscule explosion of dust when it smacked into the dirt, breaking its neck. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a snap as though a catch had been turned back, and a crash of breaking glass. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs, is what he says. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Felix didn’t care if it was bending—or breaking—the rules. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a crash and the sound of breaking glass. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the jungle, she heard the creak of branches breaking, the squawk of a walkie-talkie. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The voice was very faint and breaking up. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He auctioned off his roosters to the highest bidder, recruited men, bought tools, and set about the awesome task of breaking stones, digging canals, clearing away rapids, and even harnessing waterfalls. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

With no further preamble Kilvin tossed the vial into a nearby firewell, and there was the sharp, clear sound of breaking glass. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Vaguely I remember breaking that glass window last night. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He accelerated away and cruised under the wire all alone, breaking the track record. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She claims that since Anatole gave her the bow, and since it was Anatole who requisitioned her to teach school, she must not be breaking any social customs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Any fool can kill. It’s easy—as easy as throwing a book on the fire, breaking down a door, or frightening a child.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He waited just until he was hidden within their shadows before breaking into an all-out run. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

We could see them in the moonlight, eating the ham and those raw sweet potatoes, breaking open cans, scattering coffee and meal—having just the best time you ever saw. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“You would think all hell was breaking loose.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe his anger and sadness were so great that he feared breaking down if he tried to console me. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Then the brachy leapt forward, breaking into a full gallop without so much as a windup. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

After breaking down exactly what I had been feeling, it was she who suggested that perhaps what I was experiencing was anxiety manifesting itself as fatigue. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Dandelion was inconsolable to think that he might have stopped Hazel breaking from the ditch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached back and struck Ben, breaking the flower stalk again. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Garland said, “It’s a chance anyway, breaking free and coming here to Earth, where we’re not even considered animals. Where every worm and wood louse is considered more desirable than all of us put together.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I hear her in the kitchen, breaking the eggs into the bowl, and I realize now that I can sit up I could be helping her. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Everything was in readiness for breaking free of the ice. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I could run four miles without even breaking a sweat. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

We flew higher and higher, over green valleys and dark, ridged mountains, and then over the coast, waves breaking on the white sands. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“You can see how things are already breaking down.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I count the time between sweeps of the beams of light from the guard towers and sneak from trailer to trailer, trying to avoid detection and the consequences that come from breaking curfew. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Everyone had a breaking point, after all, and the fact that Joaquin had spent almost three years with Mark and Linda and he still hadn’t been able to find theirs made him nervous. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Oh yes, I see,” said Travers, looking down at Bellatrix’s wand, “yes, very handsome. And is it working well? I always think wands require a little breaking in, don’t you?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And unlike the girl in the novel, she understood heat and wind more than ice and snow, and had no intention of breaking anyone’s heart, except maybe her own. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure I did the right thing, breaking up with him. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He had kicked the Fugees out of the park, the story now went, for breaking the terms of its agreement with the city. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It all felt perfect—the wind in my face, the waves breaking over the prow. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Saltwater boils on their faces were breaking open and dripping across the dead-white rings of frostbite. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Like waves breaking on the narrow beach down at the river. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was all Herb, all the time—which makes me think that deep down, she really does love him, even though they keep breaking up. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Okay, what is it?” he snapped, breaking the silence. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The week before, I had stolen the watch without breaking a sweat. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was aware of a jolt in the earth that came to him through the soles of his feet, and the breaking sound of stones at the top of the cliff. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The knots in the wet and swollen rope were loose, and I figured that Mr. Kendall had already struggled with them while the branch he stood on sagged further and further toward breaking. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Step by step, breaking the ice with my ax, I waded out. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dang, I was breaking her out, but now I was all in. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

‘After what happened yesterday, not to mention Ted breaking that glass just now! It’s out of the question. You’re grounded. Both of you.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those early weeks she had fed Mirabelle every four hours, held her every time she cried, and watched her grow until her heels stretched her newborn rompers almost to the breaking point. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And how I felt when I looked at him, like something was breaking. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

If they reached the wall without breaking, there would not be many left. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The speaker in the airport terminal crackles to life, a muffled voice breaking through the morning chatter and the suitcase wheels clunking over the tiled floor. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“I did,” I said, my heart breaking at the pain in his voice, on his face. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Unless, you know, I manage to convince everyone at the hearing that I was actually doing them a favor by breaking my coach’s nose. Though I’m guessing the chances are slim.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Dawn was just breaking the sky into pale gray, illuminating the floating docks and the distant mist-shrouded structures of drowned Orleans. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“They weren’t supposed to fall in love, you know, but they always did like breaking the rules.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He demanded that I apologize for breaking the plate. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Meng gets on his bike and slowly begins to peddle, breaking Chou’s hold on my hand. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Filling an entire session with one activity was out of the question, so I began breaking each session into a series of brief, regularly scheduled discussion periods. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

We’d been breaking into arguments all year, teetering on a seesaw of perpetual imbalance, because he was always either one way or the other. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Just then, there came the sounds of branches breaking and voices in the distance. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

In these close quarters, I was unable to back up without the risk of ensnaring myself in the ropes or breaking my ankle in one of the gaps between the floorboards. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Imagine a cup of water falling off a table and breaking into pieces on the floor. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am here to remind you all of the price of breaking the law. Tell me, child, are the nights dark here in Namwon?” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It took every ounce of his willpower, but he looked directly into Gaily’s eyes, never breaking contact. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

But then he heard the sound of two jars breaking against the brick walls of the deserted cotton warehouse beside the general store. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

About midnight, a black bear came prowling around the margins of the camp, spied the bag, and brought it down by climbing one of the trees and breaking a branch. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

You can get hard labor for it, things like breaking rocks fifteen hours a day. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“The magic is breaking up. In fifteen minutes we’re going to be in the middle of overground daytime. The neutrino streams are losing their integrity.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“There are rumors,” my father said, his voice breaking, “that we are being taken somewhere in Hungary to work in the brick factories. It seems that here, we are too close to the front. . .” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They are breaking out the road,” explained Judith. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Grandmother was trying to scare him as some sort of revenge for breaking her porcelain. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Before the Hate had proceeded for thirty seconds, uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In the morning, after breaking fast with cold beef and ale, we set out once more, still heading south. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then it rushed madly across about twenty fields, breaking down all the fences and hedges in its path. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

“But he’ll sleep in the bed with you boys,” Mama said, “and the first thing you know, you’ll both be scratching fleas and having mange and breaking out with ringworms.” Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the bacteria, fungi, and earthworms will get to work breaking the old roots down into rich brown humus. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The band was playing again, a loud fast tune, like they were breaking up. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually she stopped being cute and started being strong, and had to be kept outside because she kept breaking things. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Getting work that paid as well as ship breaking was impossible. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But when it came down to it, the guardians made it more or less impossible for any of us actually to do much without breaking rules. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of breaking stone echoed all around them. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The sun was warming the brush house, breaking through its crevices in long streaks. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was hoping you would,” he said, a goofy smile breaking out across his face. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Don’t thank me,” she said, letting go of Lazlo’s arm and looking down, breaking the gaze. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“No. No, no! It’s all my fault! He didn’t do—” There’s a thump, followed by the sound of breaking glass, then, “Oh!” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Suddenly they all heard a little wave breaking. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Ow,” I gasp, breaking the seal of our lips and taking a half step away. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It reminds me of someone breaking bread and handing it out. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

They were breaking a law that had been established in the South. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Still, when August removed the lids, the bees poured out in thick black ropes, breaking into strands, a flurry of tiny wings moving around our faces. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night was old, and westward the waning moon was setting, gleaming fitfully through the breaking clouds. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s just the excitement of breaking the rules. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

If the media is to be believed, teenagers are too busy breaking laws and trying to kill themselves and the people around them to form any bonds of attachment. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Karl accepted the invitation and showed up, right on time, even though it meant breaking the curfew set for young people. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“But thank you,” I add, breaking the silence. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I can build or fix anything with these hands,” he said, his voice breaking. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I was slipping away, or breaking away, like a crumbling glacier cracking from the continent and drifting out to sea. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

While code breaking was Elizebeth’s forte, she was also a top-notch code builder. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I played out scenes in my head where I declared my intention of living as a boy and my parents, at first protesting but then breaking down, accepted me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They’d ended in old Rome with Leo breaking a cookie and paying a price much worse than an eye. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The sound breaking the anxious silence is shocking. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Ron’s nerves were already stretched to the breaking point with anxiety about Harry. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Gold bought security, salvation from the ships and the breaking and light crew. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I think about breaking my own fingers, I don’t know why. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

We sit and wait, cringing at the sound of glass breaking, things smashing as his gang ransacks the house and the grounds. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

One of the most important papers in the history of code breaking, it introduced powerful new ways of using statistics to break codes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“See, as long as nobody’s breaking any laws or causing any problems, there’s no reason for you to hang around, is there?” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

‘The woman who ran it was called Mrs Clonkers and if she caught you breaking any of the rules, like getting out of bed at night or not folding up your clothes, you got punished.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heel of the hand thrust upward, hopefully breaking the nose or shoving it into the brain. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He would swing and look at it—a breaking twig, a movement of air—and know die sound as if he somehow could move his mind back down the wave of sound to the source. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped as though horrified at this breaking over. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The drive to the movie theater was quiet, with only the wind breaking against the edge of the windows. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I screamed, finally breaking through the last of the darkness, my eyes fluttering open. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I say, and Jordan pipes up, breaking some rule I’m sure, and says, “I’m sorry, do we know you?” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

If you are not put to work breaking rocks, you get to incinerate the bodies of your companions after they have been hanged. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

You must listen carefully, because the rules are to be kept and any breaking of them will be punished.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was not scourging some colored boy in the twilight or breaking up a slave festival for amusement. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The Old Bear sat at Craster's board, breaking his fast with the other officers on fried bread, bacon, and sheepgut sausage. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He heard the crack of breaking branches out in the woods. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

My anxiety tripled when Samira explained that not having a green card or a Social Security number also meant we were breaking the law simply by living in the United States. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Fadi’s stomach sank as kids called out to their friends, breaking out into groups. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He felt that it should be assumed that the guy was breaking with Ebola—and do you really want to bring a guy like that into a community hospital? The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean they were in the subway while we were breaking into Resthaven?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The shrieks cracked, breaking into howls and bloodthirsty cries. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

His dirty little fingers squeezed the pencil tight and he kept breaking the lead point. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

"Things are breaking up. I don't understand why. We began well; we were happy. And then." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Am I going too fast?” he panted, breaking our kiss. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But he could not and it stayed at the hardness and water-drop shivering that preceded breaking. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I still miss him so much, dude,” he says, his voice breaking. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The sound of breaking glass seemed to come from all around them, and then desperate cries for help. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Then a sudden movement catches my eye, breaking my reverie. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“He was in our back garden breaking things. And then he ran away.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

We slept to the occasional boom of breaking trees, although the explosions were not as frequent. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I stood away from the crowd I saw staff members and policemen breaking it up. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The dawn was breaking over the uneven roofs and crooked chimneys of the city. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Despite their small size they play an important part in breaking down the residues of plants, aiding in the slow conversion of the litter of the forest floor to soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The agents have stopped this last group from making a run for the elevators because a group of scary-looking gorilla hybrids are close to breaking through the line of agents protecting the escape route. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t spoken about breaking into Jesse’s house, and I was happy to forget it had ever happened. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Judging by the constant banging, she was either fixing something or breaking something. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

All Eleanor could think was that, if somebody were breaking in through this window, how was she supposed to escape and call 911? Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The activity was intoxicating, busier even than the ship- breaking swarms of Bright Sands Beach. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Under the microscopes, their long tails furiously lashing, spermatozoa were burrowing head first into eggs; and, fertilized, the eggs were expanding, dividing, or if bokanovskified, budding and breaking up into whole populations of separate embryos. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care. I walked into someone’s apartment. In the middle of the night. That’s breaking and entering!” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Come on,” Rachel said, finally breaking eye contact. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

If you ever try to squat on top of a toilet, you’ll probably realize that aim becomes a major issue, along with balance and not breaking the hinges of the seat. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Bubbles like amber jewels tumbled up and up and up, breaking and rising and breaking. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve linked arms and crawled one at a time through a Hula-Hoop, without breaking arms. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Then my dad got worried that the father’s wife’s family was going to accuse me of breaking up their marriage and come after us. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Isn’t that what Mom’s ghost is telling me by breaking everything I make? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Outside it was a lovely warm evening and I could hear the waves breaking on the beach just across the road from the hotel. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I say, “Come back to the table. Before the whole town sees us and says we’re breaking up for a second time.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

It stops me in my tracks, and for a moment, I can feel my heart breaking. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Thirty seconds it lasted, green sunlight breaking the cloud on the horizon. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Or were the SS just searching everywhere, breaking down doors until they found something wrong? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Did you think that breaking the ring would break the curse?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In a minute the owl was sitting beside him again on the branch, thoughtfully breaking up a dead sparrow. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

My phone buzzed and I left quietly not knowing whether I was breaking a rule. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The mist was breaking, the sun was forcing its way through and throwing patterns on the carpet. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think I’d survive the fall? Now, that would be breaking The Rule.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

One, large for his age, made smithereens out of the flowerpots and china because his hands seemed to have the property of breaking everything they touched. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He’ll run out of oxygen eventually, but at least no one is breaking his heart. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Mother, why are you breaking your beautiful things?” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

"A noble lady does not feed dogs at her table," she said, breaking off another piece of comb and letting the honey drip down onto her bread. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Especially when he is throwing chairs and turning over tables and breaking the cotton-candy machine. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I understand that if Thresh wins, he'll have to go back and face a district that has already broken all the rules to thank me, and he is breaking the rules to thank me, too. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Many also admit that a predictable consequence of breaking up one drug ring is a slew of violence as others fight for control of the previously stabilized market. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She fails to see that Anatole is breaking rules for her, and this will have consequences. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My voice, at first rough and breaking on the high notes, warms up into something splendid. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Imagine breaking into someone’s house, eating all their food, breaking all their furniture, and then sleeping in their bed. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She also kept a fight from breaking out between the children of Mars and the children of Ares over the best way to kill a hydra. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe she hadn’t been around when her cabinmates got cursed, or maybe she had a way of breaking the spelL With a chill, I wondered if Clarisse could be Kronos's spy at camp. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She saw storms, rain, water droplets forming and falling and breaking apart as they struck the surface of the sea. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She leaped to her feet when she saw me, breaking away from her friends. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The attorney tended to talk about the case with a mixture of calm and exasperation, as if his powers of incredulity had already been strained to the point of breaking. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They tested each other constantly, with scuffles breaking out every time some young pup hit a growth spurt and dreamed of moving up. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“So I suppose you think that’s a reward for breaking rules?” came an angry voice from just behind them. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The man was in peak condition, and in the arrogance of his new rejuvenation, he rejected his gleaning and fought the scythe, breaking his jaw with a vicious punch. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Is there a spell for breaking a magical item, like those necklaces the Cursed Toads keep holding?” she asked. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

An elegant way to sidestep the law rather than breaking it. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Not only was he compiling new codes for Army use, he was also teaching cryptography to Army officers, as well as breaking ciphers and codes on demand. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I was petrified that Mami would come in and yell at us for breaking her favorite decoration. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“It would be bending the rules, but not exactly breaking them.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before what happened with his parents and the cheek scars and him getting sent to a group home and breaking a kid’s arm and all his health problems. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Smith, his nerves at the breaking point, made an ominous statement implying that there would be no match race, then led the horse out. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also still loved the essence of code breaking—that thrilling moment when a hidden message yielded its secrets. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The broken galleys were ripping apart, the bridge breaking apart. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Fury and anguish filled him, unbearable, unanswerable; his mind was stretched to breaking. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“The embassy gate will have to be open. Maybe we shouldn’t worry about breaking into the Ice Court. Maybe we should just walk in with the performers.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He was pleased to be able to see the ocean and hear the waves breaking. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

We talk about leaving Bellmont all the time, moving past the history of our families, breaking free. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Cooper called out cheerfully, breaking the uncomfortable silence. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You have a thing for Imogen,” said Brooke, breaking the silence. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“But, my dear sir,” cried Mr. Weston, “if Emma comes away early, it will be breaking up the party.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

His golden skin began to corrode, breaking into chunks. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

As the bin continued to pitch, the scrap at the front began to slide forward, bit by bit, a great iron glacier breaking apart. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And I noticed that his self-control was breaking up. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like a code, breaking into his head and finding the key to his secrets. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was empty of shoppers that morning—nothing but the occasional sound of automobiles breaking the graveyard silence of the cars in the lots, lined up like tombstones. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dawn was breaking and pale ripples of light shimmered an the surface of the river, shattering under the poles and re-forming when the ferry had passed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Smart beyond your years. There are places for a boy like you. General Heissmeyer’s schools. Best of the best. Teach the mechanical sciences too. Code breaking, rocket propulsion, all the latest.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We were breaking the front door when Mom appeared next to me, in her big blue parka. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The thing that impressed Winston in looking back was that the speaker had switched from one line to the other actually in mid-sentence, not only without a pause, but without even breaking the syntax. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She placed the chocolate on Harry’s bedside table and began breaking it apart with a small hammer. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“It was...adequate,” she replies before breaking into a big grin. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He kicked a cleared place in the snow out where the fire wouldnt set the tree alight and he carried wood from the other trees, breaking off the limbs and shaking away the snow. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I remember Hassan and I crouching that next morning outside my father’s study, as Baba and Rahim Khan sipped black tea and listened to breaking news of the coup on Radio Kabul. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, Tally would be able to see the waves breaking on the shore. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The probability of obtaining exactly one 4 among the three dice is likewise determined by breaking the event into the three mutually exclusive ways it can happen. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We need time out,” said George, trying to signal to Wood and stop the Bludger breaking Harry’s nose at the same time. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I guessed that Zach had called him with his one phone call, and here he was, breaking the news. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Bad trouble, Brother; they trying to —" Then the harsh sound of breaking glass, distant, brittle and fine, followed by a crash, and the line went dead. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a few of my colleagues in the league, I even went so far as breaking up CP meetings by storming the stage, tearing up signs, and capturing the microphone. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anne had become philosophic about breaking Dad down a little at a time, and she had suspected all along that there was going to be a third person on her first date. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the open window he could hear the waves breaking on the rocks—a little louder now than earlier in the evening. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“We really plannin big sabotage,” the other man at the bar said, breaking his silence. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This flow of envy and thus, of power, is, for the first time in the history of geeks, flowing in the other direction ... breaking what has been the status quo for many years. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I remembered that Shan-shan had written a da-zi-bao after their house had been searched, formally breaking relations with his mother. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in many ways, the true problem had begun years earlier, with a scandalous secret agency that once had been at the heart of American code breaking. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

His men fell in around them, the hooves of their gar- rons breaking through the icy crust to the softer snow beneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He would fall through to the other side in a din of breaking glass, surprised and disappointed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bill Peterson and I were introduced, and then the referee called us together and mumbled all of that stuff about fighting fair and breaking clean. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

His stomach, though, felt like a ship breaking up on invisible shoals. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t find the words to explain without breaking down. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Otto Hahn, the chemist, was breaking apart atoms to understand their constituent subatomic particles. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Holding it in front of me was breaking my stride. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly, we spent our time in the training center, breaking skills down and putting them back together again until our execution became second nature. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They talked about digging a well, fashioning traps, felling trees, warming orchards with fire when spring weather was bad, breaking young horses, training dogs. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wasn’t talking to you, old boy. We all know you are perfectly happy slopping about the Manderley gardens and never breaking out of a slow walk.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He wept shamelessly, almost breaking his fingers with desperation, but he could not break her down. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

And one morning, late in September, he shared some breaking news, additional details of which were passed quietly around B-block for the next few days. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The third crack was as loud and sharp as the breaking of the world. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Anthony had been accused of breaking a law that prohibited willful and knowing illegal voting; she argued that she didn’t break the law because she believed her ballot was legal. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Will you please close your eyes?” he asks, his voice breaking. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

"Of course it's no game! Every day the newspaper tells us about people who are sentenced to death or prison for breaking the Radio Law when all they want is the truth. This is serious." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I am breaking the rules as I turn the key in the ignition. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“A law that says kids have to live in a jail? You’d blame me for breaking a law like that?” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I thought she must have come to confront me about breaking into her house, and that cops would surely be busting down my door any moment, but I resisted the urge to panic. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

A full moon hovered low in the sky, breaking through reefs of bomb smoke now and then to shine like the lighthouse’s ghostly double. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I could get them both busted for attacking me...for breaking my camera...for ruining my chance to win the competition. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

It was a sunny day, and around me the women were busy breaking camp. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Front porches were full of living room furniture, old couches and armchairs, people playing checkers, arguing, waving fingers, and breaking into laughter. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Six feet off the slack, it made a poot sound and then fell back in a cloud of gray smoke and landed heavily, breaking off its nose cone. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The wire dropped and he heard Guitar breaking into a fast run through the trees. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They especially loved throwing parties that involved code breaking. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The sound of a breaking branch wakes me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z