Chapter 5 of The Breaking Point is here in full — 225 sentences across 45 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 5 of The Breaking Point is here in full — 225 sentences across 45 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“You have said, I think, that every man has a breaking point.” “Absolutely. All of us. We can go just so far. Where the mind is strong and very sound we can go further than when it is not.
Chapter 5 of The Breaking Point is here in full — 225 sentences across 45 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
From this reading ““Absolutely.”
the act of breaking something
From this reading ““You have said, I think, that every man has a breaking point.””
to a considerable degree; very much
From this reading “We can go just so far.”
to or at a greater extent or degree or a more advanced stage (“further” is used more often than “farther” in this abstract sense)
From this reading “Where the mind is strong and very sound we can go further than when it is not.”
The element of a person that enables awareness and thought.
From this reading “Where the mind is strong and very sound we can go further than when it is not.”
a geometric element that has position but no extension
From this reading ““You have said, I think, that every man has a breaking point.””
the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause
From this reading “Where the mind is strong and very sound we can go further than when it is not.”
having strength or power greater than average or expected
From this reading “Where the mind is strong and very sound we can go further than when it is not.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading “You have said, I think, that every man has a breaking point.”
completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
From this reading “Absolutely.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading All of us.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Where the mind is strong and very sound we can go further than when it is not.
the act of breaking something
From this reading “You have said, I think, that every man has a breaking point.”
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading We can go just so far.
all the members of a group, with none left out
From this reading “You have said, I think, that every man has a breaking point.”
to a considerable degree; very much
From this reading We can go just so far.
to or at a greater extent or degree or a more advanced stage (“further” is used more often than “farther” in this abstract sense)
From this reading Where the mind is strong and very sound we can go further than when it is not.
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading We can go just so far.
the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading “You have said, I think, that every man has a breaking point.”
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading “You have said, I think, that every man has a breaking point.”
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “You have said, I think, that every man has a breaking point.”
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Where the mind is strong and very sound we can go further than when it is not.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Where the mind is strong and very sound we can go further than when it is not.
and nothing more
From this reading We can go just so far.
an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
From this reading “You have said, I think, that every man has a breaking point.”
The element of a person that enables awareness and thought.
From this reading Where the mind is strong and very sound we can go further than when it is not.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading Where the mind is strong and very sound we can go further than when it is not.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading All of us.
a geometric element that has position but no extension
From this reading “You have said, I think, that every man has a breaking point.”
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading “You have said, I think, that every man has a breaking point.”
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading We can go just so far.
the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause
From this reading Where the mind is strong and very sound we can go further than when it is not.
having strength or power greater than average or expected
From this reading Where the mind is strong and very sound we can go further than when it is not.
used to introduce the second part of a comparison
From this reading Where the mind is strong and very sound we can go further than when it is not.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading “You have said, I think, that every man has a breaking point.”
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Where the mind is strong and very sound we can go further than when it is not.
judge or regard; look upon; judge
From this reading “You have said, I think, that every man has a breaking point.”
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading All of us.
precisely as stated
From this reading Where the mind is strong and very sound we can go further than when it is not.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading We can go just so far.
at the time that
From this reading Where the mind is strong and very sound we can go further than when it is not.
in or at the place that
From this reading Where the mind is strong and very sound we can go further than when it is not.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “You have said, I think, that every man has a breaking point.”
Chapter 5 of The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart holds 225 sentences, grouped into 45 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 5 holds 225 sentences of The Breaking Point, unabridged, divided into 45 reading sections.
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