Sentence examples for breaking a glass from inspiring English sources

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She tries to attack him, breaking a glass and cutting her palm on a shard of it.

Some aides burst into the billiard room by breaking a glass door, but little is said in the report about them except that they attempted rescues.

As a child he had been clumsy; his father would often yell at him for breaking a glass or for being unable to bring him a cup of coffee without spilling it.

In book two, A Man in Love, for example, he describes getting drunk, breaking a glass and slicing up his own face, when the woman he loves rejects him.

The trailer began with a shot of Ryan Gosling breaking a glass in someone's face (in Only God Forgives) and ended with Forest Whitaker being stabbed through the ear (in Zulu).

The one tradition Mr. Goldstein wanted to observe was breaking a glass to end Sunday's ceremony as a tribute to his father, who died when he was 13. "See, he's worried about not getting the glass right," Ms. Finneran had said earlier in the week.

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When somebody breaks a glass, we celebrate.

"Never mind, I broke a glass," he called.

They can break a glass, but it can be replicated.

EISENBERG I broke a glass onstage and started pouring water through it, not realizing there was no bottom.

As is traditional at Jewish weddings, they will break a glass, light the Havdalah candle and conclude the ceremony with a Kiddush blessing.

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