'brake' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'brake' with 8 example sentences.
- brake noun
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: 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
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: 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.