Sentence examples for the test broke from inspiring English sources

Several European foreign ministers were heading for a meeting in Hanoi with their Asian counterparts when news of the test broke.

Her pregnancy was thirty-nine weeks along, and the obstetrician who had ordered the test broke the news to her as she sat with her husband and her parents.

The tests broke the recent relative silence from the North, but the move was much less provocative than what had been feared in the tense weeks after the country's nuclear test in February.

Michael Krepon, who has written on the militarization of space, said the Chinese test broke an unofficial moratorium that had lasted since then.

Just after news of the nuclear test broke Human Rights Watch deputy Asia director, Phil Roberton, used the event to draw attention to the issue, often sidelined by the regime's military bluster.

There is no suggestion that any of the cars tested broke the law on emissions limits or used any cheat devices.

None of the screws tested broke in the predetermined number of trials.

The news of Powell and Simpson's failed tests broke on the same day Tyson Gay, the fastest man in the world this year, admitted he had also tested positive for a banned substance.

The test plane broke the sound barrier on a two-and-a-half-hour flight over the Atlantic, but did not reach its Mach 2 cruising speed.

In 1994, the test reactor broke all records by producing 11 megawatts of fusion energy, but it was shut down for budgetary reasons in 1997.

When a new grading system was designed to ensure that teachers and administrators didn't fudge the test results broke down, the newspapers mostly treated it as a non-event.