A point at which text is split into two lines; the end of a line.
even the freest free verse must justify its rhythms and line breaks
Example sentencesExamples
Rather than slow down the reading pace, the sound shape of the poem intensifies the oral density of each line, somehow nearly erasing the line breaks.
It's not hesitation in his voice, but pacing, almost as if his sentences have line breaks already built into them.
We removed the spaces between words and inserted arbitrary line breaks.
Due to necessities of formatting, line breaks in the transcription are distorted.
Her line breaks are uniquely hers, beautifully jolting without any winking self-congratulation.
O'Hara uses the line breaks to break up the sinuous fluidity of each sentence, shifting it from one direction to another.
He not only insisted poems appear in all lowercase but took other liberties with line breaks, punctuation, parentheses, which often amounted to a tricky cleverness.
He had to decide how to sequence the stories and ads on any given page, and when to put in line breaks.
The odd, unexpected rhyme can come like an oasis in a desert of (seemingly) disconnected thought and jarring line breaks.
She also is capable of perpetrating some God-awful line breaks, such as ending a line with the word "like."
Definition of line break in US English:
line break
noun
Printing
The point at which two lines of text are split; the end of a line.
even the freest free verse must justify its rhythms and line breaks
Example sentencesExamples
It's not hesitation in his voice, but pacing, almost as if his sentences have line breaks already built into them.
We removed the spaces between words and inserted arbitrary line breaks.
Her line breaks are uniquely hers, beautifully jolting without any winking self-congratulation.
She also is capable of perpetrating some God-awful line breaks, such as ending a line with the word "like."
Rather than slow down the reading pace, the sound shape of the poem intensifies the oral density of each line, somehow nearly erasing the line breaks.
He not only insisted poems appear in all lowercase but took other liberties with line breaks, punctuation, parentheses, which often amounted to a tricky cleverness.
Due to necessities of formatting, line breaks in the transcription are distorted.
The odd, unexpected rhyme can come like an oasis in a desert of (seemingly) disconnected thought and jarring line breaks.
O'Hara uses the line breaks to break up the sinuous fluidity of each sentence, shifting it from one direction to another.
He had to decide how to sequence the stories and ads on any given page, and when to put in line breaks.