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27 examples of Breaker in a sentence

Death is the deal breaker.
Participants were given a list of ice- breaker questions to get the ball rolling, things like, "If you could be any kind of animal, what would you be?"
It's a circuit breaker.
Well, Thomas Edison invented the circuit breaker in 1879.
And then four lights, with switches, and even a circuit breaker, modeled after an electric bell.
The source of our being and the end of our journey, you are also the breaker of our hearts.
Among those who've helped open my eyes to a third way are: a devout Muslim in Afghanistan, a group of harmonizing lesbians in Croatia and a taboo breaker in Liberia.
Breaker! Breaker! has Chuck Norris as a truck driver and a karate master, talk about juggling two disparate careers.
The murders include a stomach being opened with intestines showing, a neck sliced, an electrical cord thrown into a pool frying a female victim who had all day to escape, an ax buried into the back of a male victim, and, to top it all, a couple are strangled by a rope during their sexual climax(..for added effect, the killer uses the breaker bar of a socket wrench as extra leverage to twist the rope as tight as possible snapping their necks).
I believe if memory serves the thing spent about 2.6 minutes in the water and was just shy of 6 feet tall, that was a heart breaker.
"The Awful Truth" was a ground breaker in terms of some of the conventions that were used in screwball comedies of the thirties.
Why is it that after the nuclear holocaust, every city in America turns into a car breaker's yard!
If BBC 4 needs a benchmark of how little money they can get away with spending to make a good SF thriller, this is the breaker.
It is not a movie full of snappy one - liners,dialogue is sparse and significant.Miss Genevieve Bujold is also excellent as the Rape Crisis Centre boss,outwardly a ball - breaker,but wanting to trust this odd cop who offers so many contradictions.
The great arctic explorer Raoul Amundsen is called in as are the Soviets who pick up radio messages of the disaster; an ice breaker is then dispatched to assist in the rescue.
If there are two levels of circuit breaker – a short-term and a long-term suspension of trading – and they are set too close to each other, once the first is triggered, market participants, realizing the second is likely to kick in as well, could stampede out of the market.
In such situations, the circuit breaker is political, and often dramatic.
The question is whether this response will be enough to act as a circuit breaker, thus giving the Turkish economy and its financial system time to regain their footing.
Sometimes called the “China breaker,” this person should be given time during board meetings to throw the good dishware against the wall and see what can be made of the pieces.
The Genocide Convention, adopted on December 9, 1948, in response to the Holocaust, should have been a circuit breaker.
One was the reversal of China’s attempt to install a stock-market “circuit breaker,” which, far from tempering volatility, spurred a new wave of selloffs.
What is needed is a financial circuit breaker, in the form of a transitional lender of last resort.
As a result, the US and North Korea have agreed a deal that differs from the Clinton-era “Agreed Framework,” mainly because North Korea now has a track record as both a deal breaker and a nuclear weapons state.
Impossible though it may be to confidently predict anything about Australia’s future, given the madness of recent years, there are reasonable grounds for believing that this could be a circuit breaker, and that we might at last have leadership for the long haul.
CAMBRIDGE – Like surfers looking out for the next big breaker before the first one has passed, epidemiologists and public-health officials in the United States are bracing themselves for a fresh surge of COVID-19 infections later this year.
Chinese leaders expect the West’s anger at their actions to fade quickly, calculating that Western firms are too heavily vested in the city to let the perils of China’s police state be a deal breaker.
But this should not be a deal breaker.