Break and Paragraph

Break

Break verb - To cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forcibly.

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Paragraph and break are semantically related in divide topic. In some cases you can use "Paragraph" instead a verb "Break".

Nearby Words: breach, breakdown, breaking, breakup, breakable

Paragraph verb - Divide into paragraphs, as of text.

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Break and paragraph are semantically related in divide topic. Sometimes you can use "Break" instead a verb "Paragraph".

Nearby Words: paragraphed, paragraphing, paragraphic

good	good break	good paragraph
full	full break	full paragraph
long	long break	long paragraph
brief	brief break	brief paragraph
Other adjectives: short, single, small, entire, huge, little, main, famous, new, final, next, last, beginning, lengthy.

And in a similar vein, there's the Block Paragraph Of Doom, where the writer fails to break up the story into paragraphs at all.

Source: Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
The most elaborate use of this comes when Emperor Zhark drops in on Thursday in the Outworld, which she describes in a paragraph about ninety words long, ending in a chapter break.

Source: Literature / Thursday Next
Michael Gerber's Barry Trotter parody books used footnotes to expand one-line jokes in the text into paragraph-long comedic monologues that would otherwise break the flow of the narrative.

Source: Footnote Fever

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