Sentence examples for to break someone from inspiring English sources

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To break someone's heart.

To cause someone (strong) emotional pain.

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A man has been shot and four arrested in a police operation prompted by an alleged attempt to break someone out of a police van.

It's much more fun to figure out how to break someone as a comedy star than to do their 35th movie.

One Guantánamo interrogator blithely estimated that it would take about four days to "break" someone, if the interrogation sessions were interspersed with strobe lights and loud music.

After a timeout, Rutgers failed in its first attempt to break someone open for a 3-pointer, and the Scarlet Knights called another timeout with 4.9 seconds to play.

There is no easy way to break someone's heart.

"Trying to break someone's denial through medical logic is cruelty," she said.

One user asked: "You are seriously trying to pay someone, to break someone's arms, on an incredibly public forum?

He told me the test of a tough guy was to break someone's fingers".

Maybe don't take a phone call from your wife when you are about to break someone's neck?

"But it's never going to be an exact science because the job is to break someone's heart".

You can put steps together to break someone's heart... I've probably done 60,000 hours [of training] by now.  5.

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