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’
‘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.’
‘The odd, unexpected rhyme can come like an oasis in a desert of (seemingly) disconnected thought and jarring line breaks.’
‘We removed the spaces between words and inserted arbitrary line breaks.’
‘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.’
‘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.’
‘She also is capable of perpetrating some God-awful line breaks, such as ending a line with the word "like."’
‘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.’
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