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Example sentences for "brake"

Lexicographically close words:
braise; braised; braising; braized; brak; braked; brakeman; brakemen; braken; brakes
  1. There the unwieldly omnibus and the brake filled with fat girls in pink dresses and yellow hats, and there the spring cart drawn up under a hedge.

  2. A brake with two poles erected, and hanging on a string quite a line of miniature chamber-pots.

  3. Former feed wheels were checked by a brake spring or block, which retarded the motion of the whole machine when heavily adjusted.

  4. The speed varies in proportion to the pressure applied, and the sensitiveness of the arrangement is increased by a brake device coming into play by the reversal of the treadle as before.

  5. The Westinghouse Electrical Works manufacture the greatest dynamos, including those of the Niagara Power Company, and the Westinghouse Air-Brake Works is also another extensive establishment.

  6. He doesn't have to tell me to brake jets," he muttered.

  7. He lost his balance and slid down into the dark, trying to brake his descent with his hands, the eerie screech of the box trumpeting in his ears.

  8. Every half-hour there was a stream at the bottom of its own valley, and a breadth of cane-brake on either side of the brook, which required great caution to keep the impulsive natives at bay.

  9. You must keep on full speed, and chase them out of every cane-brake and hill.

  10. Because the princes and the people brake the covenant which they had made with their servants, though but their servants, God tells them, "Because ye have not hearkened unto Me, in proclaiming liberty every one to his brother.

  11. And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down," &c.

  12. At a time vpon the repulse of a certaine suit, the Archbishop brake forth into discontentment, expostulated sharpely against the King, and in a humorous heat offered to depart.

  13. But when they were in the middest of their sad solemnities, a fire brake out of a certaine house, and suddenly embraced a great part of the towne.

  14. So the flame brake foorth more furious then it was before, and ouer went King William with an able armie; where hee found the Duke also in good condition of strength commanding the field.

  15. The Normans espying the aduantage to be ripe, made a stiffe stand, redoubled vpon the English, and pressing on with a furie equall to their fauourable fortune, with a cruell butchery brake into them.

  16. But suddenly the King with his whole forces of horse charged him in flanke, and with great violence brake into his battaile.

  17. The most forward of them he strake from his horse, and brake his thigh with the fall.

  18. Thereupon Solita brake in upon him: "But, my lord, you have won great renown, and far and wide is your prowess known and sung.

  19. So she spake, and the messenger from the princess brake in upon them, bidding the Sieur Rudel hasten to the council-chamber, for that the Princess Joceliande waited this long while for his coming.

  20. His words did but increase the fury of the princess, and she brake out in most bitter speech: "Nay, but it is a kitchen knave we have been honouring unawares, and bidding sit with us at table!

  21. A spinning body shrinking in size and retaining its original amount of rotation, as it will unless a brake is applied, must spin more and more rapidly as it shrinks.

  22. Brake for safety key line is a small reel on the same principle.

  23. The torpedo is worked by means of a small winch and brake fixed on the after part of the engine room skylight; davits are provided for dropping the torpedo overboard.

  24. At the time of the tow rope taking the cut-water, the brake is suddenly eased up; the tow rope will then pass under the bottom, when by checking the tow rope the torpedo will be hauled under the bottom.

  25. The brake for small torpedo requires only one drum and handspike.

  26. The tow rope must not be checked by the brake too suddenly.

  27. The two knights smote him upon the shield and brake their spears.

  28. Damsel," saith Messire Gawain, "Never yet brake I covenant with none, so it were such as I might fulfil or another on my behalf.

  29. Perceval smiteth the knight so passing hard that he overthroweth him to the ground right over the croup of his horse, and in the fall that he made, he to-brake him the master-bone of his leg so that he might not move.

  30. In the fall that the knight made, Messire Gawain brake his collar-bone in the hurtle.

  31. The assembly brake up in the evening, whereof the King and Messire Gawain were right well pleased.

  32. Mr. Lavine was putting a strong brake upon his temper.

  33. The farmer and his man rigged a brake to fall against the narrow breadth of shaft which extended outside of the mill wall, and so brought pressure to bear upon the revolving axle.

  34. Just run the cart up on the porch, lock the brake and it will be safe as can be till you eat your lunch.

  35. Then came the four sons by couples, and two of them brake their spears, and so did the other two.

  36. Sir Madok was very bitter, and brake out anew with cursings.

  37. And so Sir Marhaus arose and armed him, and there was a mass sung afore him, and he brake his fast, and so mounted on horseback in the court of the castle, there they should do the battle.

  38. You will have noticed that in the experiments with the traction circuit the brake shoes here have remained idle; that is to say, they have not been attracted to the magnetized wheels.

  39. This is because a portion of the traction current has been circulating around this coil on the iron brake beam, inducing in the brake shoes magnetism of like polarity to that in the wheels to which they apply.

  40. A new bolt hole, of course, has been bored in the brake beam 1½ in.

  41. More people had come along, and the brake was nearly full.

  42. Liza was really very anxious to see the brake and the horses and the people going; but she hesitated a little longer.

  43. The coachman cracked his whip, the trumpeter tootled his horn, and with a cry and a cheer from the occupants, the brake clattered down the road.

  44. How terrible it would be if the brake started and he didn't ask her!

  45. They still had an hour before the brake was to start back, and it was then the concertinas came in useful.

  46. They repaired to the public-house to have a few last drinks before the brake started, and when the horn blew to warn them, rather unsteadily, they proceeded to take their places.

  47. They exchanged cheers and greetings as they passed, the 'Red Lion' brake being noticeable above all for its uproariousness.

  48. There came a man, by middle day, He spied his sport and went away; And brought the King that very night, Who brake my bower, and slew my knight.

  49. The pleading hands fell, to clasp and wring each other; her proud head sank, and a great sob brake from her, what time Beltane watched her with eyes bright with fever and swayed upon his feet.

  50. And presently, through that red confusion brake Beltane with Roger and Ulf and Walkyn at his heels, and, sword in hand, he sprang and caught the Abbess in a close embrace.

  51. Forthwith down they sat together on the grass, all and sundry, and ate and drank and laughed and talked, insomuch that in brake and thicket near and far the birds carolled and chattered in pretty mockery.

  52. Westinghouse Automatic Air Brake, with Hand Brake Shaft arranged to operate vertically or horizontally.

  53. Brake Shoes are applied to all Wheels and Brake Beams, either inside or outside hung, at purchaser's option.

  54. Brake Shaft can be furnished to operate with lever at end or wheel at side.

  55. Brake Shoes applied to all wheels with hand wheel at side or lever at end.

  56. Westinghouse Automatic Air Brake with Hand Brake arranged to operate either vertically or horizontally.

  57. Brake Shoes applied to all wheels with hand wheel at side.

  58. Standard Platforms and Steps with Hand Brake Wheel at each end.

  59. The locomotive had its boiler and its smokestack, its cylinders and driving wheels; but it had no cab for the engineer and the fireman, and no brake to stop the train.

  60. The Westinghouse air brake is now almost universally used.

  61. And these black bands, on marching away to the westward, brake open divers nunneries and burned sundry towns and churches, maugre all that the legate bishop of Winchester, who was with his brother the king, could say or do to prevent them.

  62. Right nearby, there was a fairly smooth spot that would do to brake his "fall".

  63. As they rode along the bank of the stream the hills got lower and were densely thicketed with laurel and rhododendron, and impenetrable masses of cane-brake filled every little valley curve.

  64. From the tower old Jerome saw reeds begin to shake in a cane-brake to the left of the spring.


  65. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brake" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.