Sentence examples for break off suddenly from inspiring English sources
In 1938 the diaries break off suddenly, perhaps because of Britten's relationship with a 17-year-old; the following year, he and Peter Pears set off for the US, where they fall in love.
The text breaks off suddenly; Motion surmises that Larkin abandoned it because he was eager to begin work on the first Coleman novel.
The correspondence broke off, suddenly and mysteriously, in 1890.
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At this point Laertis breaks off and, quite suddenly, starts to cry.
In any case, the unremitting inflammation renders the plaques increasingly brittle, sometimes culminating in a piece of plaque suddenly breaking off and wounding the artery wall.
The load is the horizontal component of the unbalanced centrifugal force from the remaining blade of the turbine rotor when one blade has suddenly broken off (close to the hub).
It also disclosed that radio Communications between the Columbia Eagle and a United States Navy ship near Cam bodia were suddenly broken off last night, possibly indicating that the freighter had been placed under Cambodian con trol.
In a television commercial, a file being e-mailed by a man on an island vacation to his printer at work is personified by a chunk of the island that suddenly breaks off and starts floating from the tropics to his office in Manhattan.
The story itself is skimpier, lacking the necrotic garishness of the prison in "Blindness" or the reversal of history, when a proofreader in "Lisbon" inserts "not" into a text, or in "The Raft," when the Iberian peninsula suddenly breaks off and floats away from Europe.
