Sentence examples for broke fast from inspiring English sources

He broke fast with a bottle of water, and then waited to eat at the mess.

Then Moussa Sissoko broke fast before crossing impressively for Mitrovic who, once again, headed off-target.

When Wang Lijun, the former police chief of the region of Chongqing, sought shelter at an American consulate last month, the story broke fast on microblogs.

One night we were with many Syrian men as they broke fast at a grain mill, where the supervisors told us that the crop this year had been excellent.

— They were plenty rested after sitting out the morning matches, and when their turn finally came to show what they could do, Bubba Watson, Webb Simpson, Matt Kuchar and Dustin Johnson broke fast out of the gate at Medinah Country Club.

Here's one which works more conventionally, while cunningly exploiting two different senses of "fast": 24ac Embarrassed Spooner broke fast and went fast (3-5) Somethees the answer would yield easily enough from the definition … 16ac People like Lolita — it's a difficult thing to do (3,7) … but it would take a while for the wordplay to become apparent and raise a smile.

"He broke fasts with the singing of the hymn," William Emilsen writes in a brilliant essay (pdf) on the subject.

He broke faster than delicate china hitting a concrete floor.

So they gathered every evening with other students from the Arab world to break fast.

They're congregating at a mosque each evening, too, to break fast with local Muslims.

Iftar (meaning "breaking fast") is the first meal at the end of a day of fasting for Muslims observing Ramadan.