7 sentences with 'breaking'
Example sentences and phrases with the word breaking and other words derived from it.
• « Acrid smoke rises from the stairwell, and the creaking of breaking furniture announces the approach of the vandals. »
• « One of the greatest religious controversies in the history of Christianity was iconoclasm, the breaking or destruction of icons. »
• « Bacon took the radical step of breaking with the Renaissance obsession with ancient scholarship by arguing that ancient knowledge of the natural world was almost useless and that scholars of the present should instead reconstruct their knowledge of the world based on empirical observation. »
• « Kant's point was that, more than ever before, thinkers of various kinds were breaking new ground not only in the use of the scientific method to discover new things about the physical world, but in the application of rational enquiry to improve human life and the organisation of human society. »
• « The fascists organised themselves into paramilitary units of thugs known as the Blackshirts (after their party-issued uniforms) and engaged in open street fighting against the Communists, breaking strikes, attacking Communist leaders, destroying Communist newspaper offices and intimidating voters in Communist-leaning neighbourhoods and communities. »