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Definition of breakneck in English: breakneckadjectiveˈbreɪknɛkˈbreɪkˌnɛk Dangerously or extremely fast. 极快的，非常危险的 he drove at breakneck speed 极速驾驶。 Example sentencesExamples - But as it sped down the highway at a breakneck speed, it advanced towards him.
- They turned in 90 minutes of fantastic dance, at one moment at breakneck speed, the next gentle and solemn.
- In between, the journey is at breakneck speed on rutted roads through shanty villages or hotel-lined luxury.
- When you are careering down the motorway at the breakneck speed of forty-five miles per hour, make sure you sit in the middle lane.
- I want an extremely clear head so that if I see the floor approaching at breakneck speed I can at least close my eyes before I hit it.
- But I do have nagging fears about the flood of major plans for that part of town which seem to be emerging at breakneck speed.
- In the cobbled backstreets mustachioed old men in tweed jackets and gaiters drive decorated carts at breakneck speeds.
- Shanghai is now developing at breakneck speed into a more trendy, luxury-loving society.
- The impression is of a town reinventing itself at breakneck speed.
- The players had been aware that this could pose the biggest test to the top-of-the-table status and came out of the blocks at breakneck speed.
- The fog, though, doesn't slow the vessel down, as it skims across a calm sea at breakneck speed.
- Continuing her work at breakneck speed, the lady can put to shame any high-flying workaholic.
- Children playing along a Swindon road feared for their lives when Hicks's car came hurtling towards them at breakneck speed.
- His consciousness leaps backwards and forwards at breakneck speed.
- As I got closer, they left their temporary hideouts at breakneck speed, both of them diving down the same hole.
- It's both breakneck fast and much funnier than you would think.
- The performers recount their story at breakneck speed, completely devoid of inflection or emotion.
- Brown has created the veritable page-turner, a book that moves at a breakneck speed along the edge of a cliff.
- Breathlessly we run faster and faster at a breakneck speed to a destination we neither know nor can ever reach.
- Meanwhile, every train in every direction was cruising by at breakneck speed, which only added to the frustration.
Synonyms extremely fast, high-speed, lightning, whirlwind, rapid, speedy dangerously fast, reckless, dangerous, excessive, precipitate, headlong dangerously fast, at full speed, at full tilt, at full pelt, flat out, as fast as one's legs can carry one French ventre à terre informal hell for leather, at a lick, like the wind, like a bat out of hell, like a bomb, like greased lightning British informal like the clappers, at a rate of knots, like billy-o
Definition of breakneck in US English: breakneckadjectiveˈbreɪkˌnɛkˈbrākˌnek attributive Dangerously or extremely fast. 极快的，非常危险的 he drove at breakneck speed 极速驾驶。 Example sentencesExamples - In between, the journey is at breakneck speed on rutted roads through shanty villages or hotel-lined luxury.
- It's both breakneck fast and much funnier than you would think.
- His consciousness leaps backwards and forwards at breakneck speed.
- Shanghai is now developing at breakneck speed into a more trendy, luxury-loving society.
- As I got closer, they left their temporary hideouts at breakneck speed, both of them diving down the same hole.
- Children playing along a Swindon road feared for their lives when Hicks's car came hurtling towards them at breakneck speed.
- Meanwhile, every train in every direction was cruising by at breakneck speed, which only added to the frustration.
- They turned in 90 minutes of fantastic dance, at one moment at breakneck speed, the next gentle and solemn.
- Breathlessly we run faster and faster at a breakneck speed to a destination we neither know nor can ever reach.
- But I do have nagging fears about the flood of major plans for that part of town which seem to be emerging at breakneck speed.
- When you are careering down the motorway at the breakneck speed of forty-five miles per hour, make sure you sit in the middle lane.
- Brown has created the veritable page-turner, a book that moves at a breakneck speed along the edge of a cliff.
- The fog, though, doesn't slow the vessel down, as it skims across a calm sea at breakneck speed.
- In the cobbled backstreets mustachioed old men in tweed jackets and gaiters drive decorated carts at breakneck speeds.
- Continuing her work at breakneck speed, the lady can put to shame any high-flying workaholic.
- The players had been aware that this could pose the biggest test to the top-of-the-table status and came out of the blocks at breakneck speed.
- I want an extremely clear head so that if I see the floor approaching at breakneck speed I can at least close my eyes before I hit it.
- But as it sped down the highway at a breakneck speed, it advanced towards him.
- The impression is of a town reinventing itself at breakneck speed.
- The performers recount their story at breakneck speed, completely devoid of inflection or emotion.
Synonyms extremely fast, high-speed, lightning, whirlwind, rapid, speedy dangerously fast, at full speed, at full tilt, at full pelt, flat out, as fast as one's legs can carry one
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