Sentence examples for leg breaker from inspiring English sources

He would never have been elected had he run as, say, a brown-skinned version of the leg breaker Lyndon Johnson.

Throw in a tale about how the main character's father once did prison time for an armed stickup and then became a leg breaker for loan sharks.

Goosing the story with actual news footage (some of it delivered by a baby-faced Brian Ross), Mr. Hensleigh recounts the fetid flowering of Danny Greene Ray Stevensonn) from orphaned tearaway to corrupt union boss to leg breaker for the local wiseguys.

The one-time boxing talent would drive around the strip in his pink Cadillac, dealing drugs, womanizing, and working for the crime syndicates he'd known since his youth as a leg breaker.

In his heart of hearts, he wanted to be like his friend Joe Lewis, but because he could barely read and he spoke like he was a leg breaker, the press just turned on him.

The divers are a menace, the leg breakers are heinous.

"It was a potential leg-breaker.

It was what professionals term a "leg-breaker" and Henderson could consider himself mightily fortunate to escape.

But not every tackle that connects with a player is a potential leg-breaker, and not every time you get kicked does there have to be outrage.

Paul Lambert described Ramires's foul as "a shocker, a potential leg-breaker", but could not hide his satisfaction with the result.

These are leg-breakers but again recent history suggests they are not usually sufficient to split up the strongmen.