Sentence examples for if not breaking from inspiring English sources

It was harmless enough — entering, if not breaking — until one leg went full through a rotten section of flooring, and no one was within calling distance.

The bronze medalist in van der Burgh's race was the American Brendan Hansen, who takes exception to the idea that everybody is bending, if not breaking, the rules.

Kim Kardashian's interview in Paper magazine was published today, an afterthought to those nude pictures that, if not breaking the internet, certainly made it strain under the weight of memes yesterday.

And as women take the helm as chief executives of more major corporations, including Hewlett-Packard, I.B.M. and PepsiCo, there are hints that the glass ceiling may be at least cracking, if not breaking.

Billions of dollars of investment and years of hard work have allowed us to understand a huge amount about how the machine of cancer operates, helping us to understand how we can slow it down, if not breaking it completely.

These rules are frequently bent, if not broken.

Hawkins took the field with his nose swollen and bloodied, if not broken.

His back was broken; or if not broken, then something worse.

Another said of the relationship: "If not broken, it is certainly fractured.

The strands of continuity were everywhere strained, if not broken, in the period after Kiev's decline.

There have been reports that the relationship between coach and front office is strained if not broken.