How to use in-sentence of “break off”:
– The force on the hammer should be slightly less than that used for driving a nail, because too much force will break off the head of the key, leaving the rest of the key stuck in the lock.
– Madagascar would later break off of the Indian subcontinent.
– Icebergs break off from larger structures made of ice, like glaciers or ice shelves.
– Most of our short-period meteor showers are the product of rare disintegrations, when large chunks break off a mostly dormant comet.
– Lances did not have tips meant to break off or bend, unlike many throwing weapons of the spear and javelin family.
– For these reasons, we, members of the Provisional Government, representing the whole Vietnamese people, declare that from now on we break off all relations of a colonial character with France; we repeal all the international obligation that France has so far subscribed to on behalf of Vietnam and we abolish all the special rights the French have unlawfully acquired in our Fatherland.
– In the razor shells the siphons can break off only to grow back later.
– In budding, the offspring forms as a lump on the parent and eventually becomes big enough to break off and live by itself.
