The young man reached out to break off one of the purple flowers.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

Lee soon discovered that it would not be easy to break out of the trap that Richmond and Petersburg had become.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

We must not be enemies. Though emotion may have damaged them, it must not break our ties of love."

VOA: special.2009.07.30

They wrote a series of stories after a break-in at Democratic Party offices in the Watergate Office Building in nineteen seventy-two.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

Lee and his officers decided to make a final effort to break out of the circle of Union forces.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

Then,a hard cast may be put around the area of the break to hold the bone in place while it heals.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

It made the ice thin. If he stepped there, he might break through the ice into a pool of water.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

He said they would rise up at the first sign of a leader who wished to break their chains.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

You can spend a great deal of time making an object only for it to break in the kiln.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

But he had to give up hope for both houses of Congress to pass bills before their August break.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

I was born on the plains where the wind blows free, and there is nothing to break the light of the sun.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

Something was needed to raise up the spirits of the South to break the pressure of Union armies.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

"Hundreds of thousands of young people around the world can break through and make this a better world for all living things.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

And,he was proud of being the first African-American to break the color barrier in a major opera house.

VOA: special.2010.03.07