Sentence examples for broke upon from inspiring English sources

The latest involves steel bolts that broke upon being tightened, further delaying the opening.

As the waves broke upon us, the hull boards bellied and bowed, straining against the pressure.

Several small French cavalry charges broke upon a line of pointed stakes in front of the English archers.

The Arab military conquest broke upon the Byzantine Empire in 634, just as it was exhausted after defeating Persia.

"Colonel Moray!" Running feet approached and Rory broke upon them, taking little notice this time of their close position.

Lithuania was so broke upon gaining independence that it needed Marciulionis to embark on a fundraising mission to even field a team.

"The storm may break upon us at any moment," he told the administration.

Because the projectiles break upon impact, they usually do not cause permanent injury, even when fired at close range.

But by 1637 both began to see, dimly, the storm that was about to break upon them.

The dawn of freedom which it heralds may not break upon us at once; but it will surely come".

Thoreau makes light of most men's need to work, and ignores the wave of industrial toil that was breaking upon New England.