Sentence examples for break a word from inspiring English sources

("A man may break a word with you, sir; and words are but wind; ay, and break it in your face, so he break it not behind". William Shakespeare, "The Comedy of Errors").

Their studies are credited with having done much to bring recognition of the concept that children who have trouble learning to read almost invariably are unable to learn easily how to break a word into its component consonants and vowels.

Break a word down into spoken syllables.

It may be the first interview of a military hero where the host was forced to break a pause with the words, "So, anyway".

Words can break a person or lift a person up.

Considering the dire straits most Americans find themselves in today, it infuriates me that Thomas Friedman would join the billionaire Paul Otellini in opining that American corporations need yet more tax breaks ("A word from the wise," Views, March 4).

The Normalization process involves stripping genitive marks, transforming plural forms into singular, replacing punctuation, removing stop words, lower-casing each word, breaking a string into its constituent words, and sorting the words into alphabetic order.

We used a within-subject design and the 60 female participants were randomly assigned to an autonomy (free timing of break) and standard conditions (fixed timing of break) of a word processing task in a simulated office environment in a random order.

Here, in addition, there are part-word repetitions ("th.there", "p.p.p.pick", "m.mates"), prolongations ("sssschool", "ssstutter", "mmmore") and a break in a word ("sp/eak").

Break up a word or phrase that means something to you with random characters and symbols.

The scandal has had the interesting side effect of breaking a taboo around the word Pussy (Poosi in the Russian transliteration), as the band is usually referred to in short.