Sentence examples for broken against from inspiring English sources

You hear all the klaxons going off, the speeches, the champagne bottle being broken against the ship.

The University of Indianapolis forward Reid Strain, who scored the only goal for Puerto Rico, had his nose broken against Jamaica.

— MICAH COHEN The other swing county that we told you to watch in Colorado, Mesa County, has broken against Mr. Romney.

Images of a sycamore-fig garland, taken perfectly intact from a tomb, and of Tut's childish glove, the filaments stretched but not broken against the unsparing light, seem shrouded in apologetic silence.

What surprises here is Gibney's apparently unquestioning attitude to his subject, given the lances he has broken against the smart guys of Enron and the US military in Taxi to the Dark Side.

As with Moore, too, these passages are almost impossible to quote effectively: they are made of superlong, ribbonlike sentences distributed across white space, often broken against their syntax by an inflexible line.

"It can really break against us.

Whitecaps broke against the beach.

All revolts break against their indispensability to modern society.

Others argue that undecided voters tend to break against the incumbent.

Others argue that undecided voters tend to break against the incumbent, in this case Mr. Obama.