RUPTURE in a Sentence

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16 example sentences for RUPTURE, such as:

1. The impact ruptured both fuel tanks.
2. The rupture of a blood vessel usually cause the mark of a bruise.
3. The eleventh century saw the formal rupture between East and West.
4. I hold it to be the wondrously thin, ruptured membranes of the case, coalescing.
5. But the story of the duel, confirmed by Pierre's rupture with his wife, was the talk of society.

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Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rupture
 v.  cause something to explode, break, or tear; make a sudden noisy break
Classic Sentence:
1  And he related to his guest the whole history of his acquaintanceship and subsequent rupture with the General.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
2  But the story of the duel, confirmed by Pierre's rupture with his wife, was the talk of society.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI
3  I told him everything as best I could, and told him what I had proposed to our Petersburg lodge, of the bad reception I had encountered, and of my rupture with the Brothers.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VIII
4  He now understood for the first time all the cruelty of his rejection of her, the cruelty of his rupture with her.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXII
5  Bad as this might be, it was anyway better than a rupture, which would put her in a hopeless and shameful position, and deprive him of everything he cared for.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 20
6  One consolatory reflection upon her conduct had occurred to her at the first moment of the final rupture, and when now she recalled all the past, she remembered that one reflection.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 8
7  Another feeling, even stronger, impelled him as quickly as possible to smooth over the rupture without letting it grow greater.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 14
8  But the thought of a definite rupture had never come to him, and even now could not lodge itself in his mind.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
9  This worked great hardship and strained the tact and forbearance of the unrelated half of the town, for the India-Melanie feud made a rupture in practically every social organization.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
10  Well, sir, the rupture of a blood-vessel on the lobe of the brain has destroyed all this, not in a day, not in an hour, but in a second.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 48. Ideology.
11  At that time it was the sudden volcanic rupture of nearly all relations between black and white, in work and government and family life.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VI
12  I hold it to be the wondrously thin, ruptured membranes of the case, coalescing.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 94. A Squeeze of the Hand.
Example Sentence:
1  The rupture of a blood vessel usually cause the mark of a bruise.
2  The eleventh century saw the formal rupture between East and West.
3  A steam rupture occurs within a nuclear power plant when the temperature of the nuclear reactor reaches a certain level too quickly.
4  The impact ruptured both fuel tanks.