1.   Equivalent plasterboards break under the strain.

2.   If you clear them from the surface regularly, the net will not break under the strain.

3.   Ropes broke under strain, or were worn through by prolonged use.

4.   The system of sharing broke under the onslaught of Western individualism.

5.   They frequently shifted and broke apart under the warming sun, sounding like thunder, booming cannonades and shotgun blasts.

6.   A bruise forms when a blood vessel breaks under the skin.

7.   When the burning hot crust of the salt flat began to break under my boots, I knew I was approaching the lowest point in America.

8.   The world of library, archive and museum, of books, documents and things is breaking under the impact of information technology.

9.   He has broken under interrogation.

10.   A mental hospital still shelters those who broke under the strain.