break free
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.05 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "During the storm, the boat broke free from its moorings."
- "To address the climate crisis, we need to break free of our addiction to fossil fuels."
- "1721, Aaron Hill, The Fatal Extravagance, London: T. Jauncy, [Scene 1], p. 9, […] I saw his Lady, Wild, with a Storm of Grief! Her Hair dishevel’d! And her loose Robes, blown, careless, by the Wind! Struggling, with weeping Servants, to break free."
- "When the soul breaks free from the arms of a superstition, bits of the claws and talons break themselves off in him. It is not the work of a day to squeeze them out."
- "[A]n elephant was captured for a time by the king's hunters and, ere he broke free, beringed with a grievous leg-iron."
- "[…] the chopper slowed and wheeled around the treetop. It was one of the big ones whose crown had broken free of the rest to spread luxuriantly in the upper air […]"