(v. i.) To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp.
() imp. & p. p. of Break.
Example Sentences:
(1) They broke in with a battering ram: an armoured vehicle known as a Bearcat.
(2) Cameron famously broke with the past, and highlighted his green credentials, by posing with huskies on a visit to Svalbard in the Norwegian Arctic in 2006.
(3) When war broke out, the nine-year-old Arden was sent away to board at a school near York and then on Sedbergh School in Cumbria.
(4) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
(5) The 20-year-old now holds two world records after he broke the 50m best at the European Championships in Berlin during a 2014 season which saw him burst on to the international stage.
(6) Michele Hanson 'The heat finally broke – I realised something had to change …' Stuart Heritage (right) with his brother in 2003.
(7) Mark Latham's insights, insults and feuds are why he's worth reading | Gay Alcorn Read more BuzzFeed political editor Mark Di Stefano, the reporter who broke the story linking Latham to the less-than-savoury @RealMarkLatham Twitter account , had been chasing Stutchbury for days.
(8) This week, Umande broke ground on the first of a series of toilet block biocentres in a slum in Kisumu, near Lake Victoria.
(9) But in a setback to the UK, Somaliland, which broke away from Somalia in 1991, refused British entreaties to attend on the grounds that it would not have been treated as equal to the Somali government.
(10) The two of them broke up with their partners and in 1974 they married.
(11) From the stress-strain curve the following values were selected: strain, stress, and slope at 80 mmHg equivalent pressure (1 mmHg = 133.3 Pa); maximum stress, strain, and slope; and breaking stress, strain, and slope if the sample broke.
(12) While they're raking in the money, he is broke and out of work.'
(13) When last week’s scandal broke, Tesco chair Sir Richard Broadbent airily opined: “Things are always unnoticed until they are noticed.” He forgot to mention that that goes double if people are paid to turn a blind eye.
(14) Hazard, nominated for the Ballon d’Or earlier in the day, broke away from his industrious defensive running to curl a shot on to the base of the far post early on while Willian struck the crossbar with a free-kick just after the interval.
(15) When war broke out he was there again, scribbling anti-British propaganda for Coughlin's journal.
(16) Gowher Rizvi, chief representative of the prime minister, Sheik Hasina, told the Guardian that preparations for the forthcoming elections, were "completely on track" and that the tribunal, probing crimes committed during the 1971 war in which Bangladesh broke away from Pakistan, was about bringing justice previously denied by "the twists and turns" of the country's history.
(17) The airline had secured its injunction on the admittedly flimsy grounds that Unite broke strict rules over reporting ballot results.
(18) He couldn't quite get his body shape right as the ball broke to him.
(19) "We broke the trend, thankfully, and held the seat," he admits.
(20) When the news about the attack in Woolwich broke, by pure coincidence Ross Caputi was crashing on my sofa.
Roke
Definition:
(n.) Mist; smoke; damp
(n.) A vein of ore.
Example Sentences:
(1) Critics of what the government is up to cite Roke primary in Croydon , repeatedly deemed "outstanding" but suddenly charged with being "inadequate" in 2012.
(2) She said: "The children at Roke deserve the best possible education, but any suggestion that there is a 'done deal' on a sponsor is wrong.
(3) A Harris Federation spokeswoman said the final decision on Roke would be made by Michael Gove , not them.
(4) This turned out to involve a questionnaire which only asked whether, when it became an academy, Roke should be sponsored by Harris, not if parents wanted an academy at all.
(5) Roke was targeted after Ofsted assessed it as "inadequate" in May.
(6) "We have serious concerns about standards at Roke primary.
(7) Parents and governors at Roke primary in Croydon say they face a "hostile takeover" of a consistently successful local school after a single unsatisfactory Ofsted report, one caused mainly by a computer failure, which they say meant staff were unable to provide inspectors with the correct data in time.
(8) The situation at Roke mirrors that at Downhills primary school in Haringey, north London, which Gove ordered to join the Harris chain last year, despite 94% of parents voicing opposition.
(9) Unlike Downhills, Roke has no consistent history of poor performance.
(10) A DfE spokesman said: "We have serious concerns about standards at Roke primary.
(11) A group of parents battling plans to remove Roke primary in Croydon, south London from local authority oversight have also released a transcript of a meeting in which a Department for Education "broker" told them she believed the school was failing based largely on a half-hour tour during which she thought the children looked "bored".
(12) Roke's governors told the DfE that if it had to become an academy they wanted it to be sponsored by their local secondary academy , the destination school for almost three-quarters of Roke pupils.
(13) At the same meeting some parents were angered when the "broker", a freelance contractor hired by the DfE to work with converter academies, described how she decided Roke needed help.
(14) A parent whose son attends Roke, who asked not to be named, said there had been "zero consultation".
(15) Harris is lauded as a consultant on failing schools, yet Roke is not a failing school.
(16) In May Ofsted gave Roke an "inadequate" overall assessment , with the inspectors citing a lack of data about pupil performance and poor middle management.
(17) The significance with Roke is that it has no long history of under-performance, supposedly the only reason for forced conversion .
(18) She said: "Because of our track record in the area and the exceptional primary team we have established, we are confident that we could give the staff at Roke the support they need to provide outstanding education for children at the school, which is why we agreed to become the department's preferred sponsor."