Sentence examples for breaking step from inspiring English sources

The bridge finally collapses, with both men on it, when a massed phalanx of assistant painters marches across it without breaking step.

Watching a stream of yellow-capped swimmers not breaking step as we walked from jetty into water was apparently quite a sight.

Without breaking step, a man and a woman tell a campaigner that they are not local residents—odd, another remarks, as he could have sworn they live in his street.

Last week, the Bank of England opted to hold rates at a record low of 0.5 percent, breaking step with the European Central Bank which raised rates for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis.

Two kinds of KIE measurements are particularly relevant for estimating the contribution of C H bond cleavage to an overall reaction rate: (i) the intrinsic KIE (D k), which is an estimate for the KIE of the individual chemical C H bond breaking step, and (ii) the noncompetitive intermolecular KIE, preferably D V/ K), which expresses the degree to which the D k is expressed.

Even the subject of sex doesn't make them break step.

Those dead souls on Old Compton Street, they passed clean through and you never broke step.

The men in command, sent the mahouts down with all speed to make the elephants break step, lie down, do anything that would stop their dangerous game.

"Foxtrot" leads us a sorry dance, with irreproachable skill, but sometimes you long for it to break step, to quicken, and to breathe.

During this episode, the villagers did not break step but allowed themselves to turn their heads just enough to observe the proceedings.

In an interview, Dr. MacAyeal offered an analogy for the phenomenon: when soldiers walk across a bridge, they have to break step so as not to run the risk of collapsing it.