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Example sentences for "broke out"

  • He would promise amendment and take himself off to the Bois to work off his superfluous energy on my father's horses--until he broke out again.

  • Oh, I haven't any right to ask, but I do ask," he broke out vehemently.

  • Diana, I wish you'd let me kiss you, just once," he broke out miserably.

  • Get something hot for him directly," he said, falling back into an arm-chair, while we broke out in exclamations.

  • She could have me all to herself, for mamma was closeted with Uncle Ery, talking over things--and on some word or sound of mine betraying that I guessed what things, it broke out.

  • Harold only came back when the carriage came round, and no sooner had we driven off than I broke out--"Harry, I had no notion matters had gone so far.

  • Chevenix, at the same moment, broke out in a roaring voice: 'The hell-hound!

  • No no,' he broke out, perceiving me to make a movement.

  • Yes," broke out Carlisle, "and all of you remember it.

  • I can't have this," he broke out suddenly.

  • And with this, he broke out into a fragment of Beranger, gave a cheerful good-night to Madame Bouïsse in the hall, and was gone.

  • Just at this moment, a confused hubbub of voices, and other sounds expressive of a fracas, broke out in the direction of the trees behind the orchestra.

  • At this moment the piping and fiddling broke out afresh, and Josephine, who had scarcely taken the little telescope from her eye all the time, exclaimed that she saw the wedding party going through the market-place of the town.

  • Don't kick up such a shindy," broke out Johnny, as a much stained handkerchief came flapping about.

  • Now don't begin to improve the occasion," broke out Jock.

  • The French disease, for it was that, remained in me more than four months dormant before it showed itself, and then it broke out over my whole body at one instant.

  • Then a shiver went through me, and the next moment I broke out into a cold sweat.

  • Ah, Senor, I am delighted to meet you," I broke out in Spanish.

  • In 1524 a great revolt of the peasants broke out, and the next year it became general.

  • The animosity of the blues and the greens broke out in frequent bloody conflicts in the streets.

  • The disaffection of the Irish, and their antipathy to English rule, broke out in different forms, as circumstances changed.

  • Look at things, once, from her side," he broke out.

  • I wish I could make Weatherbee's wife dream it," he broke out.

  • I knew how you would take it," he broke out at last, "but it's the truth.

  • And you called this your proudest day," he broke out at last.

  • It's men like you that get the worst of it," he broke out.

  • After a long pause he broke out suddenly, "China has been drummed into my ears.

  • I often wish I had been in Paris that summer when the war broke out; then I would have gone into the French army on the first impulse, with the other students, and it would have been better.

  • Wheeler," he broke out suddenly, "I wish I knew we were going there now!

  • That's the way she treats me," he broke out, storming, and his face growing red as he clenched his fists and went on.

  • Ever and again he broke out with a line or two of a melody he had heard once from a phonograph.

  • You'll be in luck if you get away from here with a whole skin," broke out Phil.

  • Phil chewed on it for a moment before he broke out again: "I reckon you cayn't talk away the facts, Mr. Keller.

  • Although Munich had warning of the approach of the epidemic months before it broke out, no sufficient means were adopted by the authorities to fortify the city against its attack.

  • Mutiny, too, broke out in the camp, because the troops were not all taken into battle.

  • The losing party being thus dispersed by peaceful means, disorder 68 broke out in the victorious camp.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "broke out" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    broke camp; broke forth; broke out; broken bone; broken country; broken down; broken glass; broken ground; broken head; broken pottery; bull moose; dark crimson; deep sleep; east coast; endless punishment; first violin; great plenty; hole through; little sign; mechanical engineer; observations made; occasion required; private estate; shaped pieces; the breadth; until quite