“More than one contestant was pounded by a sneaker set out on the reef, or was caught unawares by an evil double up shore breaker as they struggled to extract themselves and their massive boards from the sea.”
“The breaker amazed the crowd with their jaw-dropping flips, spins, and gravity-defying moves.”
“If the equipment is wired incorrectly, operators using a device with a single-pole circuit breaker are at risk of electric shock when it trips.”
“A breaking from the past in order to gain momentum was presented.”
“The interdisciplinary field of criminology studies the making of laws, the breaking of laws, and the formulation of responses to the breaking of laws.”
The left-over money in a parimutuel betting pool resulting from rounding off the payoffs, added to the pool for the next race or event or kept as profit.
“A foot stretcher breakage in the Egyptian boat caused the second semi-final to be delayed.”
“Quakes radiate along fault lines, which often are existing fractures in the rock but can also be created by a new line of breakage.”
“This is perhaps because any injury between the tip of the meropodite and the point of autotomy invariably causes a breakage at the latter point.”
breakable
Something that is (easily) breakable.
(plural) A set of customized hardware that is part of a drumkit. Breakables typically consist of: the drummer's cymbals including high-hats, the snare drum, the kick pedal and the drummer's stool.
“Designed by architects working for Norman Foster, it had no playground and no morning breaktime.”
“It might be possible to counteract this trend through regular sports instruction and breaktime exercises.”
“She lost narrowly to the girl who was promising a wider choice of biscuits at breaktime. Naturally she was upset and I tried hard to soften the blow.”
