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'brake' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'brake' with 8 example sentences.


brake noun

: a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle

: any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants

: large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan

: an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant

: anything that slows or hinders a process

brake verb

: stop travelling by applying a brake

: cause to stop by applying the brakes


  • One of your brake lights is burned out.
  • I will only buy the car if they repair the brakes first.
  • He pressed the brake pedal.
  • Don't brake so suddenly.
  • Apparently, the brakes on the bus were faulty.
  • The function of the brake is to stop the car.
  • We nearly had an accident when the car brakes jammed.
  • The Representative said he will put a brake on spending.
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