make a break for
idiom
: to suddenly start running toward something
The runner made a break for second base.
Examples of make a break for in a Sentence
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This allows ample opportunity for B-HBSG to make a break for the Torrent.
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Randall Colburn, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
One evening, however, the two actors conspire to make a break for it — to stay hidden from the horde of paying customers, escape from the exploitative conditions of their jobs, and use their meager earnings to start new lives in another country.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2025
Instead of doing his best to command the stage and the room, Byrne looked trapped by his surroundings, as if he were prepared, at any moment, to make a break for the door.
—Rolling Stone, 16 June 2025
In the film, three Texas teens (Jeremy Allen White, Logan Huffman, and Mackenzie Davis) hope to make a break for it and escape their dead-end existence but get sucked into the underbelly of organized crime when one of them steals from the wrong man.
—Alex Ritman, Variety, 22 May 2024
Our group had a plan: when the bus came the next morning, that would be the moment to make a break for it.
—Teju Cole, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
Colin Simmons watched Steve Sarkisian make a break for the 30-yard line at Darrell K Royal Texas Memorial Stadium.
—Lia Assimakopoulos, Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2023
Except that especially right at the start, her enormous fake mustache appears to gain sentience, realize what these people are doing, and decide to make a break for it straight down the middle of Prue’s face.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2021
In Honduras, Quintanilla said, one heard all the time — from friends, on social media, from relatives — that this was a good moment to make a break for the United States, as long as one traveled with children.
—Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2021
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Randall Colburn, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
One evening, however, the two actors conspire to make a break for it — to stay hidden from the horde of paying customers, escape from the exploitative conditions of their jobs, and use their meager earnings to start new lives in another country.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2025
Instead of doing his best to command the stage and the room, Byrne looked trapped by his surroundings, as if he were prepared, at any moment, to make a break for the door.
—Rolling Stone, 16 June 2025
In the film, three Texas teens (Jeremy Allen White, Logan Huffman, and Mackenzie Davis) hope to make a break for it and escape their dead-end existence but get sucked into the underbelly of organized crime when one of them steals from the wrong man.
—Alex Ritman, Variety, 22 May 2024
Our group had a plan: when the bus came the next morning, that would be the moment to make a break for it.
—Teju Cole, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
Colin Simmons watched Steve Sarkisian make a break for the 30-yard line at Darrell K Royal Texas Memorial Stadium.
—Lia Assimakopoulos, Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2023
Except that especially right at the start, her enormous fake mustache appears to gain sentience, realize what these people are doing, and decide to make a break for it straight down the middle of Prue’s face.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2021
In Honduras, Quintanilla said, one heard all the time — from friends, on social media, from relatives — that this was a good moment to make a break for the United States, as long as one traveled with children.
—Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2021
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