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Definition of bone-breaking in English: bone-breakingadjective 1(of a surface or journey) bumpy, rough, or involving many sudden jolts. what passed for roads were now simply bone-breaking tracks a bone-shaking two-hour drive Example sentencesExamples - The only way to reach the place was by horse and cart along a road that was full of pot-holes — a bone-breaking journey that could take three or four hours.
- It was an experience that more than made up for the two-hour, bone-breaking ride.
- After a bone-breaking trip being thrown around in the back of the pickup, we arrived at Semuc Champey.
- We relaxed for a while in the grounds of the old Portuguese pousada at Tutuala before beginning the bone-breaking drive back to the Com Beach Resort.
- The hike was bone-breaking.
Synonyms bumpy, jolting, jolty, lurching, jerky, jumpy, jarring, bone-shaking, turbulent, rough, uncomfortable 2Involving great physical force or violence. Example sentencesExamples - Giving evidence for the defence, Mr Riley told the jury that he had used the cosh and struck the bone-breaking blow.
- Gideon hit the ground with bone-breaking force but still he sprang up in a second.
- Having suffered more than most with bone-breaking falls over fences, Swan decided a couple of years ago that discretion was the better part of valour and abandoned the search for rides over the larger obstacles.
- After each goal the players flung themselves onto the ground in what should have been a bone-breaking experience, but instead they rolled, jumped and hugged in the dust as if it were a swimming pool.
- The burly youth held his shield in front, his rattan high, ready to crash down with bone-breaking force.
- Fighters can launch themselves off of the top rope, dive through the ropes onto an opponent outside the ring, and lock adversaries in a variety of bone-breaking submission holds.
Definition of bone-breaking in US English: bone-breakingadjective 1(of a surface or journey) bumpy, rough, or involving many sudden jolts. what passed for roads were now simply bone-breaking tracks a bone-shaking two-hour drive Example sentencesExamples - The only way to reach the place was by horse and cart along a road that was full of pot-holes — a bone-breaking journey that could take three or four hours.
- We relaxed for a while in the grounds of the old Portuguese pousada at Tutuala before beginning the bone-breaking drive back to the Com Beach Resort.
- After a bone-breaking trip being thrown around in the back of the pickup, we arrived at Semuc Champey.
- The hike was bone-breaking.
- It was an experience that more than made up for the two-hour, bone-breaking ride.
Synonyms bumpy, jolting, jolty, lurching, jerky, jumpy, jarring, bone-shaking, turbulent, rough, uncomfortable 2Involving great physical force or violence. Example sentencesExamples - The burly youth held his shield in front, his rattan high, ready to crash down with bone-breaking force.
- Giving evidence for the defence, Mr Riley told the jury that he had used the cosh and struck the bone-breaking blow.
- Having suffered more than most with bone-breaking falls over fences, Swan decided a couple of years ago that discretion was the better part of valour and abandoned the search for rides over the larger obstacles.
- Gideon hit the ground with bone-breaking force but still he sprang up in a second.
- Fighters can launch themselves off of the top rope, dive through the ropes onto an opponent outside the ring, and lock adversaries in a variety of bone-breaking submission holds.
- After each goal the players flung themselves onto the ground in what should have been a bone-breaking experience, but instead they rolled, jumped and hugged in the dust as if it were a swimming pool.
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