The phrase "breaking off from" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to separating from something that was previously being done or experienced. For example, "After my brief conversation with my neighbor, I broke off from our conversation to go focus on my chores."
Volcanic and emotional, Papp often ended up breaking off from colleagues he had worked with for a long time.
The characters are forever breaking off from their yoga classes to discuss plans for the momentous celebration.
Some claim that the Labour northern heartlands are breaking off from the party, as they have already done in Scotland.
But something about me must have revealed that I was awake, for a woman's voice, breaking off from the general conversation, said, "Oh, look, look".
Inside – breaking off from the grand tour theme for a moment – Blake has curated a truly gasp-inducing display of some of its world-renowned collection of miniatures.
It was at that time that God's Army was formed, breaking off from the main Karen guerrilla force, the Karen National Union.
"I'm writing a thesis on the merits or otherwise of climate change campaigns," Chadwick says, breaking off from signing up Liverpool University for the 10 10 project.
"A lot of people didn't realise that voting for Brexit had wider implications than just the UK breaking off from Europe.
STOCKHOLM (AP) — An island of ice more than four times the size of Manhattan is drifting across the Arctic Ocean after breaking off from a glacier in Greenland, potentially threatening shipping lanes and oil platforms.
New Amish communities in the United States are usually formed by groups breaking off from existing communities in search of land, said Karen M. Johnson-Weiner, author of a history, "New York Amish".
Joe Girardi, who bristled at questions from reporters on Tuesday night, momentarily lost his cool, breaking off from a televised news conference to approach and shout back at a fan who was heckling him.
