Sentence examples for it was broken off from inspiring English sources
As Jacinto explains in the novel, "the stairway which had been the only access to it was broken off by a great storm many centuries ago, and its people had perished up there from hunger".
It was broken off at the knees and the left eye of the ruler's portrait was scratched away, damage characteristic of that inflicted by invading warriors.
After five to 10 cells were collected in the tip, it was broken off and dropped into a sterile eppendorf tube.
The prospects for a settlement brightened in 2006 when ETA declared a "permanent" cease-fire, but it was broken off 14 months later.
She explained that a perm had damaged my hair and that's why it was breaking off, and luckily it wasn't coming off at the root.
The People's Deputy party, a component of United Russia dominated by Chekists, announced this month that it was breaking off, to run in the elections alone.
A12 Israel Ends Talks With Preacher Israel said it was breaking off negotiations on a tourism project with the evangelical leader Pat Robertson, left, in response to his remarks suggesting that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke was divine retribution.
Warren Hoge (NYT) NORTHERN IRELAND: SINN FEIN WALKOUT Sinn Fein said it was breaking off talks with the Irish and British governments because London was giving in to "militarists" in not more quickly reducing its army presence in Northern Ireland and fully replacing the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
Most of the province is controlled by a powerful rebel alliance that includes the jihadist group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, which was known as al-Nusra Front until it announced it was breaking off formal ties with al-Qaeda in July 2016.
There you are, betrothed to your beloved, but something goes wrong and it is broken off in tears and recriminations.
Although it is broken off at the waist, this piece has lost none of its power: the woman's legs, in a short, transparent skirt, are crossed in profile, her belly swelling out beneath the low, gently bent waist.
