Sentence examples for to breakdown from inspiring English sources
noun
A failure, particularly mechanical; something that has failed
- We saw a breakdown by the side of the road.
I was close to breakdown.
Entire family units would begin to breakdown, they said.
The fearsome Clinton machine appeared to be close to breakdown.
"The underground is risky and prone to breakdown," he said.
Strikingly, Hayman's character is driven to breakdown by David Bowie lyrics lodged in his head.
Nothing to wind up, nothing to breakdown, nothing to get out of order".
He saw then how close to breakdown America was, because of hunger.
Cases like that of Mr. Kennedy dramatically illustrate how close to breakdown many addicts live, they say.
For individuals, these include loss of earnings, esteem and identity, leading in some cases to breakdown and even suicide.
It's refreshing and perhaps even useful to see a movie that shows how susceptible to breakdown they really are.
Their reality gets stranger and stranger, and they come close to breakdown — the movie is funniest when it is craziest.
