Sentence examples for acts of breaking from inspiring English sources

"A man like him, who had committed repeated acts of breaking and entering as well as burglary without having been caught, would have little difficulty mailing the letters late at night or early in the morning without being seen," the panel wrote.

"It's just that the act of breaking the box is really frightening".

It's as if the act of breaking up with someone renders one naked, with every blemish exposed, hence the need for darkness.

It kept struggling in an elemental fury, like a creature in the act of breaking the bonds that held it down.

The problem is that the police have to catch the offenders in the act of breaking the law, and homeowners often find that the miscreants have long since gone by the time the police can respond to their calls.

"The officers on the streets wanted to do nothing more than go in and arrest people as they were in the act of breaking into property, looting and robbing.

As Mr. Shalette, 26, went to investigate the noise, he stumbled onto an armed burglar in the act of breaking into the top-floor apartment at 110 East End Avenue, not far from Gracie Mansion.

Even though O'Neill tried to claim that this spring training was like any other for him and talked about the tedious act of breaking in a new glove to support his theory, it is not.

Allegory may involve either a creative or an interpretive process: either the act of building up the allegorical structure and giving "body" to the surface narrative or the act of breaking down this structure to see what themes or ideas run parallel to it.

The act of breaking free from British rule to embark on the American experiment required extraordinary courage.

The act of breaking a military siege is itself a military act, and those knowingly participating in such military action put in doubt their status as non-combatants.