Sentence examples for much break from inspiring English sources

The Jewboys didn't so much break up as drift apart.

All hell doesn't so much break loose as move in and set up housekeeping.

It didn't so much break as retire, leaving my shoebox full of cassettes looking distinctly passé.

Newspapers enjoy such close ties with politicians and companies that news in Japan does not so much break as ooze.

Trouble is, while all bats may break, some maple bats did not so much break as explode.

Boyle doesn't so much break the law as make his own, hiring prostitutes for extracurricular sport and ignoring the usual policing niceties.

"We pretty much broke their spirit".

"The system is very much broken," Mr. Burns said.

She said the center was "pretty much breaking even".

"We're pretty much breaking even," he said.

He pretty much broke up a 30-year marriage".