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    Use "brake" in a sentence

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    brake


    braked


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    1. It takes a second to realise that they are not working … the back of the van growing ever closer, I pump frantically at the brake pedal and swing the car onto the hard shoulder


    2. She braked – he saw the brake lights come on, but it appears that her brakes failed for some reason


    3. I gather there was some idiot of a white van driver pulling in and out of the traffic, Liz had to brake when the van pulled in front of her


    4. A brief flash of red brake light in the gloom and then the snake back onto the straight and true


    5. Except that the third car to approach Billy’s hedgerow head butt slows as it passes, flashing brake lights in the late afternoon gloom


    6. The lane twists and dips past Hoops restaurant, turning sharply left, and as the Mondeo swings through the curves and Alex catches a flash of brake lights up ahead, Billy starts to feel nauseous


    7. The leg that had held the brake was still trembling


    8. Actually, Alex couldn't have chosen a better time to brake off the conversation


    9. Actually, he said she'd moved the other three, and that at some time in the future, they would actually brake or straighten themselves


    10. The red glows were taillights, the variations in intensity were when brake lights came on

    11. Anyway, Hamp said he had a two by four with a notch cut in each end of it so he could put one end on his brake pedal and the other end under the seat so it couldn‘t fall out


    12. The officer asked Hamp what the stick was doing jammed into the brake pedal like that


    13. " Poor civilian would then be flustered and begin to brake or swerve or drive faster


    14. William eased off the brake and moved forward while he continued to stare at the clock


    15. William stomped on the brake and looked toward the dirt road ahead of him


    16. He’d just had new brake pads and shoes put on


    17. The red brake lights on the truck ahead of him were annoying


    18. The brake lights of George Dearling’s car added red to Casino Hollywood’s starburst of white reflected from the pavement


    19. I slid to a stop, the rear brake locking up as I stood on it


    20. He cleared his mind of other problems long enough to adjust the shifter and brake cables

    21. Something vulnerable and fragile, that I might brake him with a squeeze of my hand, a bite of my teeth


    22. “Everyone is bunching up as the leaders brake for the turn,” interjected Fred, the pair of men had a staccato, back and forth style, which was quick-paced to keep up with action on the track


    23. shifted in Drive, foot hard on the brake


    24. Jalesow slowed the truck to negotiate a curve, but used too much brake, and they began to slide sideways


    25. Junya beeped the horn, and the woman"s brake


    26. 16 And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the


    27. mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind, and after the wind an earthquake; but the


    28. pipe and furnace materials, millboard, textured paints, brake linings, floor tiles, fire-resistant insulation in buildings


    29. 18 And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and broke it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces


    30. I had to guess whether to accelerate or suddenly brake

    31. 4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had


    32. Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the


    33. 10 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about


    34. Bethlehem that is at the gate! 18 And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem,


    35. Charged up with adrenalin, he couldn’t brake his kick


    36. they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also,


    37. 17 Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it


    38. down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars


    39. 2Chr 34:4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them


    40. 1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut

    41. Joh 19:32 Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him


    42. Joh 19:33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:


    43. brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the


    44. carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it onto the graves of those who had


    45. Dan 6:24 And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den


    46. 19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake


    47. 2Kin 23:7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove


    48. 29 So they provoked him to anger with their inventions, and the plague brake in on them


    49. 10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it


    50. army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about













































    1. She braked – he saw the brake lights come on, but it appears that her brakes failed for some reason


    2. I do not know of any serious casualties from this technique except for a few fatherly talks between the drivers who felt insulted by the copycat methods of the other driver who "f obviously don't have f ears to hear his f engine running at f full revs and should have f braked first since he was f already in the f intersection


    3. He braked just in time


    4. And Melchior's heart shuddered, braked, began again


    5. ” He cut the wheel sharply and gunned into the other lane, ignoring a near collision with a car that swerved towards the sidewalk and braked with a squeal


    6. With blurred vision, thinking of Jay and one moment to impact he braked allowing a speeding sedan to just pass without crashing


    7. He may have simply braked for turn eleven a little early, but it was good enough for eighth on the grid


    8. “Oh!” shouted Fred as a car spun off, and hit the wall, and rebounded, while a dozen other machines all swerved and braked to avoid collision and miss each other and the walls


    9. It braked badly and skid for a few feet on the courtyard dirt


    10. Ethan braked gently then and brought the Rover to a stop

    11. She braked abruptly and pulled over in front of a small three-story building with faux gypsum columns outside, cast in some vaguely Greco-Roman rhythm


    12. Then his tormentor did the same, but quickly jammed on his brakes—slowing so substantially that Mike would have hit him had he not braked and driven on to the shoulder


    13. braked, swerved and accelerate in repeated motions to


    14. An army truck roared out of the jungle, and braked


    15. The driver spun the wheel and braked on the shoulder


    16. On reaching the arming area, each plane cocked left 45 degrees and braked to a stop


    17. Instead of accelerating out of the skid, she braked, sending the car juddering over the edge, where it teetered for a second before rolling down a grassy slope


    18. Then he braked suddenly


    19. He suddenly stood on the brake and the 4x4 behind instinctively braked and swung to the right down a side street, as James carried on straight down the road and turned into the first street on his left, saw an open alleyway which he entered, switching off the car lights and parked behind an outbuilding, his heart pounding fit to burst


    20. Both saw the desolate appearing shelter rapidly approaching and Samson braked sharply, pulled off the road and stopped at the west edge of the small rest stop

    21. They had braked hard, once so far, to avoid a collision


    22. Looking at her first with surprise, then with happiness, Buhlingen saluted Nancy crisply as she braked to a halt in front of him


    23. The zealots, who thought at first that she was running away, ran along the banks of the quarry towards her but braked to a halt when she ran towards them after exiting the quarry’s pit


    24. Ingrid braked her plane some distance from that of Jesus, to avoid giving a group of targets on the ground, then shut down her engine


    25. This time she left it in third as she braked hard, deep into the bend, then changed down in perfect time with the transfer of her right foot off the brake onto the accelerator


    26. Nancy braked, hesitant, then pointed the woman to Lewis


    27. � A female guard ran after her, trying to catch her, but the teenager was too fast for her and braked to a halt in front of the civilians and Katharina, cutting off their path


    28. Eggers braked to a halt but did not back up, instead looking where Nancy was looking


    29. his lights, and peeled off the road into the flat desert – where he braked, and sat there in the


    30. Is it dead?’ She braked slowly, two wheels on the gravel

    31. A wagging finger scolded and he hoisted the first box as she braked


    32. Ariel braked and glanced from bird to road, and then spotted one


    33. Ursula braked as the farmhouse came into view and idled in the road, indecisive


    34. Denise obeyed and braked to a stop just past the main entrance, then backed up to park in front of the double doors


    35. Tyre tracks leading through muddy grassland to the water’s brink showed point of entry with no indication the vehicle had braked, or attempted to avoid its fate


    36. The two other soldiers following them braked abruptly and stepped back down in a hurry


    37. Her vision quickly becoming blurred, Denise braked as hard as she could, not wanting to kill Ingrid by hitting a wall


    38. Viktor immediately braked brutally before putting the car in reverse and rolling back as more explosions shook the Kremlin


    39. The smaller gold nugget in the smaller suitcase had suddenly lurched forward as he braked and tore through the fabric area at the top; it was protruding through the suitcase


    40. At that moment a car slowed at the cross section and braked to a halt

    41. She expected it to go in pursuit but it braked and swung into her driveway


    42. A car slowed to turn in front of them and she braked heavily


    43. observers braked their cars and pointed upwards at the debris fluttering to the ground, as a


    44. rear-ending a vehicle that had braked suddenly, to avoid falling debris on the highway


    45. He braked and veered to


    46. Rakesh braked his car in front of a beautiful building


    47. “I braked hard and skidded demolished a couple of statues by all accounts, I don’t remember


    48. He braked hard, the squealing of the wheels interrupting the dawn chorus and bringing to a merciful end his off-key rendition of ‘Papa was a Rolling Stone’


    49. Paul braked in front of the house, revving it up so they could all appreciate the horsepower within


    50. As the Opel came up behind him again, he braked and turned slightly, just as the big estate car banged into him again





















    1. As I remember I’d just done the brakes on the old Austin, had nipped inside to


    2. At the last second, Russ slams on the brakes, brings the old Rover to a stop just inches from Ricci’s kneecaps


    3. stamping on the brakes, he sent the car into a slide, spinning her round on the tarmac


    4. Swearing, I hit the brakes hard


    5. She braked – he saw the brake lights come on, but it appears that her brakes failed for some reason


    6. How could anyone have thought … but surely she used her brakes before she got the motorway


    7. ‘The brakes failed on Liz’s car this afternoon … she crashed into one of the motorway bridges


    8. Her brakes failed completely, I gather


    9. Your brakes failed and you collided with a bridge on the motorway


    10. ‘It’s as we told you, Liz, your brakes failed and you hit a motorway bridge

    11. ‘You said the brakes failed


    12. and I hit the brakes


    13. Billy has to jink right as he approaches a hard right hand bend, narrowly avoiding the chevron signage in the hedgerow, and, oblivious to the state of the road behind him, he slams on the brakes, white lining, and slides to a halt


    14. Surprisingly, the engines sounded the same but quieter, the noise now coming from the air brakes


    15. There was a low wheeze of his Boochie’s last breath, like air brakes


    16. The battery basically just sat on a piece of metal next to the engine and if you hit the brakes, the battery would slide back and forth, that's pretty incredible


    17. are those who hold the brakes


    18. ” Apply the brakes on your predilection for


    19. Danny wheeled himself round whilst Ben awkwardly took the brakes off his chair, nearly flinging himself out the seat with the effort


    20. He had to put on his brakes, leaving no time for the car behind (mine) to stop

    21. He, the program copy of the original, was beginning to appreciate the need to apply the brakes to this runaway train he'd helped fire up


    22. always being wakened by the hiss of air brakes, and the stops and starts associated with this type of transportation


    23. Gritting his teeth, Contin pulled the wheel in the opposite direction, managing to get the car back onto the road, where it slewed from side to side, the tyres smoking as he stamped on the brakes


    24. The brakes caught fire and the whole car was engulfed in white smoke


    25. Since the public did not always hear the siren we adapted another technique when approaching traffic waiting at a robot and that was to lock your brakes for a second or two


    26. I watched the smoke pouring from the lorry's tyres in a kind of dread fascination, imagining the look of horror that must be distorting the driver's face as he slammed his foot on the brakes


    27. Uncle Hobart stamped on the brakes but the Lada just kept on accelerating


    28. He pushed the pedal harder but the brakes only juddered in protest, finally giving up their unequal struggle with a long drawn out grating noise


    29. The bastards, he could see two of ‘em in spite of the glare through the windscreen, locked up the brakes and slid to within a foot or two of his rear bumper; even as he was braking for the next stop light


    30. She slammed on the brakes, pulling hard to the right, and came to a rest on the muddy shoulder

    31. His car needed a master cylinder for the brakes


    32. I barreled into the intersection, slamming on my brakes as I bore down on a white panel van


    33. Fred stomped on the brakes as hard as he could, gasping in dismay, white knuckles on the steering wheel


    34. Brakes screaming, the car veered across the road as Tony struggled with the wheel


    35. Locked the brakes, put the transmission in gear


    36. They were interrupted by a screech of brakes


    37. Raul gripped the wheel securely and tested his brakes as the land began to fall away


    38. When he touched the brakes, the nose dipped alarmingly, and when it turned, there was a lot of body roll, but this wasn’t the vessel’s natural element anyway


    39. These were heavily braced for landings, but had no brakes


    40. The tracks had brakes, so you could steer the machine at slow speed on the ground

    41. Steve locked the brakes again


    42. He slammed on the brakes


    43. i drove the rest of the way back to Lawson with my foot on the brakes


    44. While I was at a stop light, I passed out and took my foot off the brakes and Blackie rolled slowly forward and banged the car in front of me


    45. Sometimes I speeded up to be sure I was still behind him, and saw tail lights only a car length ahead as I jammed on brakes to avoid ramming into the back of his vehicle, hoping my truck wouldn’t skid off the road as I did so


    46. Jason pushed it and a loud recording of screeching brakes could be heard


    47. ” He sighs, and eases on the brakes so the car slips to a stop by the side of the road


    48. At the top of the exit, I slammed on the brakes and turned left and we were suddenly in the middle of acres of vineyards, which stretched away to the horizon


    49. When Casey said Matthew’s name, Kelly quickly hit the brakes of the car and pulled over


    50. Noah slammed on the brakes and the car screeched to a stop in the middle of the road












































    1. We approached junctions, the heavy braking making me slide feet first towards the front of the truck and sending needles of dull pain up my legs


    2. "They will be braking, they have been braking on a long loop around the system for three years," Herndon said


    3. His own heart is racing and the ambulance is in full flight along Barnstaple quayside, braking hard at the right hand bend by the council offices and the main police station before accelerating up to the twin roundabouts at the junction with the Ilfracombe road


    4. Through the double-glazed window he can hear the sound of cars braking at a roundabout


    5. Braking free from his hands, she slipped behind him to protect her identity


    6. accelerating and braking hard but with the


    7. The bastards, he could see two of ‘em in spite of the glare through the windscreen, locked up the brakes and slid to within a foot or two of his rear bumper; even as he was braking for the next stop light


    8. He was flying, leveling and braking an aircraft in flight through an atmosphere


    9. “None, until it is time to initiate braking


    10. I plan on re-orienting, reversing with the load, braking and then cutting it away

    11. Now running late, he cursed and leaned on the horn between bursts of acceleration and rapid braking, but his excitement over the taped conversation overshadowed his fury


    12. This is the easiest segment complete, and now he’s going into turn six, braking down from two hundred ninety miles an hour


    13. Immediately I was slammed forward in my harness as the ship’s rear engines were cut off, and the forward braking thrusters were fired at maximum power


    14. or any sudden braking, caused her to twist off her earphones so she


    15. „Whatever it was I was braking for


    16. In 1960, during the car exhibition in Turin, the vehicles shown had a series of incredible innovations: air condition, electric windows, system for braking regulations and other "diabolic innovations" of that kind


    17. The landing calculations had been based on the drag provided by the shuttle’s wheels providing braking


    18. After a time I felt the wind moving through my hair as if challenging my part in the earth cycle, and I moved, ever so slight, my face braking contact with the earth, and the breeze twisted around my cheeks


    19. Her car was about to pass by the hitchhiker when she applied brutally the brakes, her heart jumping in her chest: the hitchhiker was her husband Jack! The braking woke up Steve, who started whining as the car stopped


    20. She elbowed him in the face, braking his nose and making him release his hold

    21. rate, the braking cutting in at the last moment and the


    22. The Toyota Prius might use the same 40mi rack using regenerative braking and the gas engine to recharge it, when the car was in the gas hybrid mode, and then plug it in at home at night to slowly bring back the capacity to 60% or 16 miles (operating 20-60% capacity always)


    23. It was narrow and bumpy in places and sometimes there was a broken branch on the road around a blind bend requiring reflex braking or steering


    24. � A single, huge bomb fell out of it, a parachute deploying from its tail and braking its fall


    25. She soon was braking to a stop in front of its entrance and jumped out at once, running inside and going to the back of her main command radio truck, which was linked to the tent complex


    26. Released in quick succession from a height of sixty meters, their 32 bombs each fell from the wing weapons pylons for maybe twenty meters before their tail sections opened up, deploying like the petals of a flower and brutally braking aerodynamically the bombs


    27. A couple of seconds later, after the cloud of droplets had time to expand and mix with ambient air, a lighting charge attached to the braking parachute initiated the detonation of the fuel-air mixture


    28. While her braking saved her from the rain of bullets, the engine took a number of hits and smoke came out from under the hood, while the front right tire blew up


    29. There might be something in her notes, in the notes that had spewed all over the floor of the car due to some erratic driving and braking on his part


    30. Simply closing either the forward or aft plasma acceleration conduits would then produce thrust in one direction, pushing the cargo ship in the desired direction or braking its flight

    31. Prospective bus drivers could be required to obtain four-year mechanical engineering degrees to aid in their understanding of bus design and construction, and the stress forces involved in acceleration, directional changes and braking under varying conditions of weight, wind load, surface conditions, visibility and other factors


    32. They can learn early that light acceleration and braking will improve mileage, and carpooling and reducing unneccessary trips will save even more money


    33. Justice would see rocks and logs and other roadblocks placed over hilltops until drivers learn, the hard way if necessary, to drive within their vision and braking ability


    34. On the KOSTROMA, now reversed and braking madly with the help of its fusion drive, Tina lowered her head at the destruction of the last attacking enemy ship


    35. It would have alerted you to a car braking in front or


    36. In Ingrid’s case, her retro-rockets, fired at the lowest point of her trajectory, simply slowed her space plane down enough that it would go lower than 120 kilometers of altitude, where the atmosphere’s density would be high enough to start braking her


    37. Hitting the gas pedal hard when the light turns green and braking hard when you stop will increase the rate at which your car using its gas


    38. When the vane hits this liquid a momentarily increasing hydraulic braking momentum would be the result


    39. BRAKING TESTING METHODS AND PROCEDURES


    40. 1) Service and emergency dynamic braking tests shall be conducted on a

    41. braking systems must be released and the transmission placed in the neutral


    42. She struggled to her feet, the braking rope in her left hand


    43. Braking and swerving quickly, Amy lets out a quick breath as her tires skid across the gravel on the shoulder


    44. The braking is sudden, and my sushi lunch threatens to come back up


    45. braking power on the tougher half of the mountain


    46. tighter turns or necessary braking in your repertoire


    47. braking than to be going where the skis are pointed, as you'll see


    48. There are many types of braking systems out there, but I will concentrate on the 3 main ones that are most common


    49. The simple, yet powerful, braking action is provided by the cable pulling the two arms together at the top


    50. When braking, it is important to start by applying the rear brake first and then applying the front brake













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    Synonyms for "brake"

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    "brake" definitions

    a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle


    any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants


    large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan


    an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant


    anything that slows or hinders a process


    stop travelling by applying a brake


    cause to stop by applying the brakes