1.   Hotspur broke the seal in silence, and unrolled the parchment.

2.   I broke the seal with my blunt thumb.

3.   Our Association almost never broke the seals and rotated turns for taking the liquor home.

4.   She broke the seal and poured me a hit in a coffee cup.

5.   She broke the seals, inserted a key, turned it, twisted the brass handle, and opened the heavy door.

6.   You have to tug a little to break the seal, and then the door opens.

7.   The ring-pulls on beer cans are a good example, so are drinks bottles where you have to break a seal to open them.

8.   All of us -- muckrakers, solons and would-be diarists -- should take a serious look at the rush to break the seal of the self-confessional.

9.   Finally, give the handle a sharp yank upward to break the seal and create a sudden suction on the drain.

10.   He noted that he had not broken the seal of the confession, a point Chin also made in his decision.