Several popular songs in recent years were about cold-hearted men or cold-hearted women who, without feeling, broke the hearts of their lovers.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

The test broke the satellite apart into at least two thousand eight hundred identifiable pieces.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

"They must be required to admit that they broke the law.

VOA: special.2010.07.03

But two large Confederate forces broke the Union attack.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

Then the hunter's rough voice broke the silence.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

Suddenly,a sharp cry broke the air.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

Haraszti says the Soviet system collapsed because the East European opposition successfully broke the communists' monopoly of information.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

On Saturday,Canada broke the record for the biggest margin of victory in Olympic women's ice hockey with an 18-0 trouncing of Slovakia.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

The vice president said that the world watched in awe and admiration in 1989 as the men and women across the region broke the shackles of repression and emerged as free people.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Zhou Yang broke the women's beating the previous mark held by compatriot Wang Meng.Zhou, Wang and their two teammates bettered the mark in the 3000-meter relay that China had set at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

And last week two American congressmen asked the Federal Trade Commission to see if Google broke any laws in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

Other areas of rock look as if some huge creature violently broke and twisted the Earth to create unusual, sometimes frightening shapes.

VOA: special.2011.08.03

Incorrect air speed readings could have led the pilots to fly so fast that the plane broke apart.

VOA: special.2009.06.13

Then,the Crimean War broke out. I felt that sad for him that there had to be a war.

VOA: special.2010.03.27