Sentence examples for had broken off from from inspiring English sources

She had grown impatient at how garment workers had broken off from their tasks to admire the portraits.

By then, Croatia and Bosnia had broken off from Yugoslavia, so Mr. Milosevic was not in legal command there.

The icebergs had broken off from the tip of a glacier that flowed right into the lake.

Plainclothesmen, wielding guns, were standing around the police, and had surrounded the area where the protesters had broken off from the main protest site.

The Arabian Gulf Oil Company, the largest subsidiary of the Libya National Oil Corporation, claims it had broken off from its mother company.

Sculptors have replaced broken fingers and noses that had broken off from the figures of artists and architects depicted around the monument's base.

The day I met Redesdale, he had broken off the long summer holiday from the House of Lords to try to enlist new recruits.

Icebergs are floating pieces that have broken off from larger ice shelves.

It's a hot August day in Los Angeles, yet a heavily pregnant Morena Baccarin has broken off from filming Homeland's third season to give an interview.

"Jhukarjodaro," a giant foot made of crumbling clay over a wood and chicken-wire armature, looks as if it has broken off from some monumental relic.

While surgeons are skilled at removing the primary tumors, the disease becomes much more serious if cells have broken off from the original site and formed other tumors.