Similar words: brake shoe, brake system, hebraic, brake, ducks and drakes, brakeman, handbrake, air brake. Meaning: n. a brake consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle.
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91. The chain-link fence swerved in, and this time I hit the brakes hard.
92. Laid crops and unsettled weather put the brakes on harvest for many growers this week.
93. If Peres and Labor are defeated(http://Sentencedict.com), the Likud Party has vowed to put the brakes on the peace movement.
94. When he jammed the brakes on she was better balanced.
95. Law enforcement officials said Wednesday that an inspection of the brakes turned up no defects.
96. Brembo has supplied the brakes, which feature a single disc and four-pot caliper up front.
97. All she could do was to slam on the brakes and shut her eyes.
98. Most people naively imagine they will stop immediately when they jam on the brakes.
99. That's because with intervention stocks rising, the Commission has to apply the brakes.
100. If I did not put on the brakes, I might be swept away into assimilation, which I resisted.
101. Those cars with all those springs that rock back and forwards like a see-saw when you put the brakes on.
102. She saw his physical symptoms as evidence that he was trying unsuccessfully to apply the brakes on a natural evolutionary process.
103. The texture as well as the bulk of fibre-rich foods helps to put on the brakes.
104. Driving up Sacramento Street, I pulled over to the side[Sentencedict.com], the brakes whining. Traffic flowed by.
105. What makes her swerve without hitting the brakes?
106. The brakes were all too new and responsive.
107. But this is an honest-to-goodness slam on the brakes.
108. Behind those wheels sit the brakes from the 370Z Sport package: 14.0-inch rotors clamped by four-piston calipers up front and 13.8-inch rotors and two-piston pinchers in the rear.
109. All the brakes on the Canadian-built robot named Dextrepassed the test but one in the wrist joint of its left arm. That brake slipped a tad more than engineers wanted, but officials weren't concerned.
110. The end of the War inevitably put the brakes on many promising developments in naval aviation.
111. The brakes screeched and the car suddenly stopped with a jerk.
112. How to replace the brakes on the Chrysler service manual to ensure "low" price.
113. If so, it is argued, there is no need to slam on the brakes.
114. "Don't worry," he said with a mustachioed smile. "The brakes still work."
115. Today, the credit crunch is putting the brakes on outside film financing.
116. The financial crisis could slam the brakes on a trend of recent years where some people view artworks as mere investments, like stocks, Caro told Reuters this week.
117. The runaway inflation would seem to put the brakes on such a trend.
118. I twisted round and went to slam on the brakes, but in my confusion hit the accelerator a second time.
119. Wire cable used to operate the brakes in some mechanical brake systems, still used for trailers and for the handbrake on most cars.
120. I am scared, hurry to get on the brakes only then have not run upon him.
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