How to Use breakup in a Sentence

breakup

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• She's just gone through a bad breakup with her boyfriend.
• What caused the breakup of the Roman Empire?
• He began drinking heavily following the breakup of his marriage.
• Money problems often lead to marital breakups.
• That way the fans would never have to deal with any kind of breakup.
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
• The Saints came into the game with a good pass defense and more breakups than any team in the NFL.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• To say the breakup knocked me over the head was an understatement.
  — Michelle Ingram-Delong, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
• Stone and Garfield have remained close friends since their breakup.
  — Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 30 Dec. 2023
• Some of them overlapped, and there were breakups and makeups.
  — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2024
• In that sense, there was nothing tragic or even sad about the breakup of Wham!
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 July 2023
• The government even has the right to ask for a breakup of the Silicon Valley icon.
  — Tripp Mickle, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• One thing that happened during the awakening of the late '60s and '70s was the breakup of the family.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 16 July 2023
• Chambers herself has found love again in the wake of her breakup with Hammer.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 28 June 2023
• Amos posted a team-high eight pass breakups last fall and entered the portal on April 30.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 9 May 2023
• After an at-the-altar breakup, the two attempted to date, but that didn’t work out.
  — Charlotte Walsh, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2023
• Everybody went through my breakup [with Cassie Randolph] and the ups and downs of my dating life.
  — Jessica Booth, Peoplemag, 15 May 2023
• Maybe try sitting with the discomfort of this being a bad breakup.
  — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
• Conflicts and group breakups may follow when one or more of them succeed.
  — Barry Mazor, WSJ, 4 July 2023
• Larsen leads the team with three interceptions, along with five pass breakups.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2023
• The party marked the first public event featuring three of the four Beatles since the band’s 1969 breakup.
  — Shera Avi-Yonah, Washington Post, 17 June 2023
• Shakira has since released a string of hits about the breakup and moved to Miami with the couple’s two sons.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Aug. 2023
• Usher, however, says that for him, things ended at the time of their breakup.
  — Janine Rubenstein, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2024
• In the 20 years since their breakup, though, they had been estranged and had not acted together again.
  — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
• After the couple’s breakup in 2022, Nodál covered up a chest tattoo of her eyes with wings.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2024
• In the message, the sender allegedly comments on Rexha’s weight and alludes to a breakup.
  — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2023
• At the time, the world began to re-examine their 2002 breakup and the damage his response had on Spears' career.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 27 Jan. 2024
• In the years after their breakup, Amie told her parents her home was broken into.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2024
• Jones finished the day with seven tackles, two sacks and a pass breakup in addition to the safety.
  — Lia Assimakopoulos, Dallas News, 26 Aug. 2023
• When Midge and Susie have a falling out this season, their breakup scene plays like a hostile divorce.
  — Whitney Friedlander, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023
• Widespread gun ownership is largely a legacy of the wars that came after the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 6 May 2023

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break up

2 of 2 verb

• In the first video, the fight begins to break up as a Black bystander joins in.
  — Jeremy Gray | , al, 7 Aug. 2023
• Aim to stay in the bath or shower with the door closed for 10 to 15 minutes to break up your boogers.
  — Alexis Berger, SELF, 15 Apr. 2024
• There was that question: Why did the band break up at the height of their powers?
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2023
• Hamilton's hit to Moore in the third quarter broke up the pass.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 15 Oct. 2023
• Add beef and break up with the back of a spoon until browned, about 6 minutes.
  — Micah A Leal, Southern Living, 3 Nov. 2023
• Did the group thinking about breaking up at that point?
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2023
• No need to break up with a partner over a TikTok trend… this time.
  — Aliza Pelto, Women's Health, 10 Sep. 2023
• The first nine races are broken up into three rounds with three races apiece.
  — Ellen J. Horrow, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2023
• One woman even broke up with her boyfriend over his reaction to the film.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 27 July 2023
• Not bad for a lo-fi band that broke up in 2001 without ever cracking the charts.
  — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 14 Dec. 2023
• Thus, breaking up their network is the chief strategic goal.
  — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
• With the functions broken up, all pieces of silicon involved in the MI300 are small.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Dec. 2023
• She was also accused of trying to break up the Rolling Stones.
  — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 2 Oct. 2023
• Add beef, breaking up pieces with spoon, and cook until no longer pink, 8 to 10 minutes.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2023
• Some people were in tears, people were breaking up friendships and all of this kind of stuff.
  — Krystie Lee Yandoli, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2023
• Screaming Females, the beloved DIY band, is breaking up.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2023
• That band, however, broke up in 1987, and Staley briefly fronted a funk band called the Black Holes.
  — Spin Contributor, SPIN, 22 Mar. 2024
• The rubble is being broken up into chunks small enough to be hauled off by dump trucks.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2024
• Brushing will also encourage blood flow and can break up dry skin on the scalp.
  — Caitie Kelly, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2024
• When Emily and Ross broke up, Baxendale was written off the show.
  — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 1 Sep. 2023
• Jenner broke up with the father of her children, Travis Scott, around the holidays.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 26 Aug. 2023
• The sale broke up families, despite a mandate from Rome.
  — Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2024
• Metal accents and decor break up dark spaces and reflect light, adding to the vintage, goth style.
  — Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Dec. 2023
• Her filing states the couple broke up for good in October.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2023
• The birds gather in large flocks during fall and winter and break up during the mating season.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Mar. 2024
• By many accounts, the Paramount Global chair hopes to sell the company as a unit and not broken up in pieces.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 21 Dec. 2023
• Coming out of the halftime break up seven, a big third quarter allowed the Cavaliers to put the game away.
  — Timothy Dashiell, Baltimore Sun, 12 Jan. 2024
• But the real story involves a flashback that explains why Ted and Robin broke up.
  — Ew Staff Updated, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2024
• There is even a chance the object may break up, according to officials.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• Johnny and Amy Questions about birth control weren't enough to break up this couple!
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024