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How to use rupture in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Rupture means a burst, split, or break. Example: “I near ruptured myself trying to move the piano.”

Examples of rupture by meaning

verbTo burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.

  • The cracking sound, he explained, as far as I, a non-plumber, could understand, was the sound of the overworked, undermaintained and weirdly installed heating unit’s core rupturing and spilling water into the basement.2007 February 18, Jake Mooney, “A Case of the Shivers”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022

More sentences with rupture

  • I near ruptured myself trying to move the piano.From the entry near
  • A rupture would represent a death knell for the West and would harm the US worker.2018, Michael Cottakis – LSE, “Colliding worlds: Donald Trump and the European Union”, in LSE's blog. From the entry death knell
  • Another example of autothysis, or defensive suicidal rupturing, can be found in Neocapritermes taracua.2018 April 29, Killian Fox, The Observer. From the entry autothysis
  • Small blood vessels ruptured in the cheeks of lushingtons, pressed on the chilly pillow of a curb.2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, published 2016, page 173. From the entry Lushington
  • There was no perianeurysmal fluid collection and no evidence of rupture.2015 August 13, Sarah Miller et al., “Chronic Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Presenting 29 Years following Trauma”, in Case Reports in Surgery…. From the entry perianeurysmal
  • As a result, one or more of his chordae tendineae, or heartstrings, ruptured.2014 February 15, Crissy Shreve, chapter 5, in BMom: Lovely Weeds, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 56. From the entry heartstrings
  • Countless pigeons ruptured it here and there with the songliness of their short circular flights.2014, Aashish Kaul, A Dream of Horses & Other Stories. From the entry songliness
  • By finding and fixing my aneurysm before it ruptured, I had miraculously dodged a bullet.2013 October 4, Tony Nitti, “Switching Gears”, in Forbes, retrieved 06 Mar 2014. From the entry dodge a bullet
  • The procedure, sometimes called amniotomy, involves rupturing the amniotic membranes to speed contractions.2007 October 30, Nicholas Bakalar, “Childbirth: Purposely Breaking Water Does Not Speed Delivery”, in New York Times. From the entry amniotomy
  • Bleeding from colonic diverticula is caused by rupture of the underlying vas rectum.1990, Jay H. Stein, Internal Medicine, third edition, page 395. From the entry vas rectum
  • Although a saddle tank on the power unit ruptured, there was no fire.1988 October 12, National Transportation Safety Board, “CASE NO. 9”, in Safety Study: Case Summaries of 189 Heavy Truck Accident…. From the entry power unit
  • The great deflation of the northern economy occurred with the rupturing of the Mackenzie Valley pipe dream.1978 June 3, “Valley Pipe Dream Wrecked Economy”, in Calgary Herald. From the entry deflation
  • There is substantial clinical experience showing that the risk of tendon rupture can be minimized by tenosynovectomy.1973, Jerome H. Herman, Rheumatoid Arthritis: Theoretical and Clinical Aspects, page 184. From the entry tenosynovectomy
  • Accumulation of tiny, positional blunders adds up to a ruptured Kingside.1961 April, I. A. Horowitz, “Readers' Games”, in Chess Review. From the entry accumulation
  • Prolonged exposure can cause eardrum ruptures and irreversible hearing damage.2025 March 17, “Calls in Serbia for independent investigation into claims of a sonic device attack at peaceful rally”, in CNN, sourced…. From the entry eardrum
  • Does not the Manifesto repeatedly describe its aim as rupture?2022, China Miéville, chapter 6, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC. From the entry eschatological
  • For Lynch, disruption is generative: trauma, the recurring subject of his films, can rupture the fabric of reality.2018 June 29, Dennis Lim, “Donald Trump's America and the Visions of David Lynch”, in The New Yorker. From the entry Lynchian
  • A pipeline transporting ammonia at a chemical factory in Shilong district of Pingdingshan city ruptured at around 6.30am yesterday.2015 September 19, Nectar Gan, “Children cough blood and animals die as Chinese factory leaks ammonia”, in South China Morning Post…. From the entry Shilong
  • At the ruined furniture in the weeds and ruptured refrigerators and stoves lying on their sides in the front yards.2014, James W. Hall, The Big Finish: A Thorn Novel, →ISBN. From the entry brokeback
  • Operation-related risk factors were emergency surgery, other than isolated coronary surgery, thoracic aorta surgery, and surgery for postinfarct septal rupture.2014 March 27, Andrzej Biskupski et al., “Glycated hemoglobin HbA1c – a new risk marker for the outcome of cardiac surgery?”, in…. From the entry postinfarct
  • They were supposed to dance out any ruptures or quarrels.2011, Marge Piercy, Dance the Eagle to Sleep: A Novel, PM Press. From the entry dance out
  • A pinched nerve occurs when a cervical disc ruptures, and the jellylike material from inside the disc presses on a nerve.2010, Clifford D. Stark, Elizabeth Shimer Bowers, Living with Sports Injuries, →ISBN, page 40. From the entry pinched
  • Many physicians fail to diagnose an intersphincteric abscess until the abscess ruptures into the ischiorectal space and forms an ischiorectal abscess.2010, Carol E.H. Scott-Conner, Chassin's Operative Strategy in Colon and Rectal Surgery, →ISBN, page 246. From the entry intersphincteric
  • In the first case, a 58-year-old right-handed man suffered a ruptured right middle cerebral artery aneurism, which required a craniotomy.2009, Joseph M. Tonkonogy, Antonio E. Puente, Localization of Clinical Syndromes in Neuropsychology and Neuroscience, page 559. From the entry hypergraphia
  • If there are possibilities for rupturing the fault lines of "dysconsciousness," there are also possibilities for reinscribing racialized discourses and practices.2005, Michael W. Apple, Jane Kenway, Michael Singh, editors, Globalizing Education: Policies, Pedagogies, & Politics, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry dysconsciousness
  • In follicles late in feather growth, after rupture of the feather sheath, this canal contained the upper part of the calamus.1969, RIC Spearman, “The epidermis and feather follicles of the king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonica) (aves)”, in Zeitschrift für…. From the entry calamus
  • Also needed, they said, is better design to prevent fuel-tank rupture and to prevent low vehicles from underriding trucks and buses.1968, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Implementation of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966…. From the entry underride
  • Disorganization in tilacoidal membranes, poorly developed chloroplasts (Fig 1E ), and rupture of the nuclear membrane (Fig 1F ), were verified in this progeny.2015 July 6, “Molecular, Biochemical and Ultrastructural Changes Induced by Pb Toxicity in Seedlings of Theobroma cacao L.”, in PLOS ONE…. From the entry tilacoidal
  • Only two cases of spontaneous tracheal rupture are reported, in adults, one due to acquired tracheobronchomalacia and other due to long term steroid use.2015 June 1, Saurabh Kumar, Sandeep Goel, Ashu Seith Bhalla, “Spontaneous Tracheal Rupture in a Case of Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD): A…. From the entry tracheobronchomalacia
  • The bird's-nest fungus resembles a miniature bird's nest complete with “eggs.” The eggs (periodioles) are actually spore packages, which rupture to release the reproductive cells.2008, Donald W. Linzey, A Natural History Guide to Great Smoky Mountains National Park, page 78. From the entry bird's nest fungus
  • Even to think of this figure as a transitional object, vicariously mending the ruptured bonds of world-relation, is to mediumise the experience.2007, J. H. Prynne, Field Notes: 'The Solitary Reaper' and Others, page 23. From the entry mediumise
  • However, proximal ruptures of the entire ischiocrural tendon complex at the ischial tuberosity represent a rare injury and reports in the literature are limited.2004 December 16, Peter U. Brucker, Andreas B. Imhoff, “Functional assessment after acute and chronic complete ruptures of the proximal…. From the entry ischiocrural
  • If the rupture occurs distal to or through the os peroneum, proximal migration of the os can often be seen on the lateral x-ray.1998, Douglas McKeag, Marc R. Safran, Steven P. Van Camp, Manual of Sports Medicine, Lippincott-Raven, →ISBN, page 471. From the entry peroneum
  • The familiar hatchery practice of agitating the eggs after they are eyed, called shocking or addling, ruptures the yolk membranes of the ever-tender sterile eggs.1980, Earl Leitritz with Robert C[onklin] Lewis, Trout and Salmon Culture (Hatchery Methods) [California Fish Bulletin; 164], Oakland…. From the entry eyed
  • Anemic foetal circulatory failure from a placental vein rupture, foetal maternal haemorrhage, or foetofoetal transfusion may lead to infarcts and secondary thrombosis.1977, James G. McNulty, Radiology of the liver, Saunders Limited.. From the entry foetofoetal
  • At least a hundred hairless dogs, which had been barking fiercely, slunk hangtail through the ruptures that served these huts as doorholes.1971, Douglas Woolf, Ya!: John-Juan; Two Novels, page 207. From the entry hangtail
  • The ordinations could prove to be the first significant crisis for Pope Leo because they provoke a schism – an intentional rupture of the church’s unity.2026 July 1, Angela Giuffrida, “Fears of Catholic schism as defiant sect ordains ultra-conservative bishops”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry schism
  • Ultrasonogram of the bladder obtained transrectally using a 5.0-MHz linear transducer in a 4-year-old Braunvieh x Brown Swiss cow with uroperitoneum caused by rupture of a persistent urachus.2015 July 3, Ueli Braun, Karl Nuss, “Uroperitoneum in cattle: Ultrasonographic findings, diagnosis and treatment”, in Acta Veterinaria…. From the entry transrectally
  • Renal trauma caused by blunt force, entrapment, falls, puncture or accidental trocarisation may rupture the renal capsule leading to leakage of urine into the perirenal tissues.2015 July 3, Ueli Braun, Karl Nuss, “Uroperitoneum in cattle: Ultrasonographic findings, diagnosis and treatment”, in Acta Veterinaria…. From the entry trocarisation

Meaning of rupture

  1. noun A burst, split, or break.
  2. noun A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
  3. noun A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.

Full definition of rupture

Questions about rupture in a sentence

How do you use rupture in a sentence?
Rupture is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I near ruptured myself trying to move the piano.”
What is a short sentence with rupture?
“I near ruptured myself trying to move the piano.”
What does rupture mean?
Rupture means a burst, split, or break.

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