How to Use breach in a Sentence

breach

1 of 2 noun

• This is clearly a breach of the treaty.
• The judge ruled that the doctor's actions were in breach of her contractual duty.
• Many people consider her decision to be a breach of trust.
• This is the breach in the wall that the smugglers have cut through.
  — CBS News, 10 Dec. 2023
• So was video of Epps from the next day just before the breach of the first barricades.
  — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
• The dam's breach could have a massive impact on the wider war effort between Russia and Ukraine.
  — Yulia Drozd, ABC News, 8 June 2023
• Netanyahu also faces a litany of corruption charges on bribery, fraud and breach of trust.
  — Paul Goldman, NBC News, 16 July 2023
• Meta has been the target of the DPC for regulatory breaches for more than a year.
  — Christopher Hutton, Washington Examiner, 17 May 2023
• In 2014, Silvergate, filled this breach and became the first U.S. crypto bank.
  — Mark T. Williams, Fortune, 21 June 2023
• Mayorkas, 64, faced two charges from the House: willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law and breach of public trust.
  — Kyler Alvord, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2024
• The breach, which the company learned about on July 5, is one of the biggest health care breaches in history.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 11 July 2023
• This was an extraordinary breach on the part of the judgment of the heads of these universities.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2023
• The big difference is that detecting the identity breach is all on you.
  — PCMAG, 21 Mar. 2024
• Uber’s new management ultimately finds out the truth and discloses the breach publicly, and to the FTC.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 5 May 2023
• Another publisher, William Collins, stepped into the breach and took the book to market.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2023
• Perhaps word of a 5% breach finally brought out some buyers.
  — WSJ, 24 Oct. 2023
• Raw sewage has poured for decades onto pristine breaches.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023
• The debt ceiling breach could wipe out 8 million jobs, a recent analysis found.
  — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 31 May 2023
• The new report has ransomware figuring in 24% of breaches, just about the same in the previous release.
  — Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 7 June 2023
• To stamp out the threat, the company was also set to terminate all the session tokens exposed in the Okta breach.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 1 Feb. 2024
• Failure to do so won’t mean a breach of the contract, but it would be addressed in the board’s evaluation of his job performance.
  — Danny Shameer, arkansasonline.com, 2 Apr. 2024
• By contrast, this year’s breaches were both large and numerous.
  — Katie Palmer, STAT, 21 Dec. 2023
• The technologies and tactics of such breaches have not changed in nearly half a century.
  — Mick Ryan, Foreign Affairs, 30 Aug. 2023
• Kakhovka dam breach — the latest updates People still in the affected areas have been warned of floating mines and the threat of disease.
  — NBC News, 7 June 2023
• Yet another scenario is that the vessel had a hull breach and imploded instantly due to the heavy pressure in the deep ocean.
  — USA TODAY, 22 June 2023
• That act alone may have put the American Club in breach of the sanctions, although the safe harbor rules make any penalty unlikely.
  — David Botti, New York Times, 30 May 2023
• At the moment of impact, fans roared reflexively at the breach of protocol.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 18 Oct. 2023
• Lockheed has characterized the move as a contract breach.
  — Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
• The delay seems to have been due to resistance from the Georgia secretary of state’s office, which, for months, denied that a breach had occurred.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2023
• So when he was spotted hooking up in a hot tub in 2020, it was seen as a flagrant breach of sociopolitical trust.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2023

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breach

2 of 2 verb

• The army breached the castle wall.
• Is he going to breach his contract?
• He claims that the city breached an agreement by selling the property.
• Two of the 16 CSX train cars that derailed were breached, spilling molten sulfur.
  — Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2023
• Prosecutors said the pair was in a group that was near the front of the crowd that breached the second one.
  — The Arizona Republic, 6 Jan. 2024
• That has caused the vehicle to breach one of its financial covenants.
  — WSJ, 18 July 2023
• By that time, flames had breached Lahaina Town, some survivors have said.
  — Lewis Kamb, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2023
• Suddenly, a humpback breached right in front of our boat.
  — oregonlive, 11 July 2023
• Though some of the containers have been breached, the Coast Guard says there is currently no threat to the public.
  — Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 28 Mar. 2024
• The suit was settled out of court, but Blades wound up suing the company again, in 2004, claiming the deal had been breached.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2023
• And there were 56 containers of hazardous materials on board at the time of the crash, some of which were breached.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 28 Mar. 2024
• There were a total of six sharks spotted that day — two even breaching the water.
  — Ana Ramirez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2023
• Tarrio was not at the Capitol on Jan. 6 but had organized Proud Boys members who were among the first to breach the building.
  — USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2023
• This border crossing was one of many breached early in the morning of Oct. 7 by Hamas militants.
  — Victoria Beaule, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2023
• Pawpaw branches have breached the trellis fences on either side of Mr. Farzan’s yard.
  — Molly Fitzpatrick, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• The city did not respond to The News’ questions of how many individuals had their data breached.
  — Jason Beeferman, Dallas News, 7 Aug. 2023
• Futures for Brent crude, the international benchmark mark, breached $90 a barrel for the first time this year.
  — Stanley Reed, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
• That day, dozens of Proud Boys leaders, members, and associates were among the first rioters to breach the Capitol.
  — Michael Kunzelman and Lindsey Whitehurst, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Sep. 2023
• Was the family with two kids breaching the ‘one child policy’?
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 17 Feb. 2024
• Now that the index has managed to breach the top level of resistance, that raises the question: Does this rally have legs?
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 4 June 2023
• Peskov, however, said Saturday that the release breached the terms of an agreement.
  — Nick Parker, Washington Post, 9 July 2023
• Two of the 16 cars that derailed carried molten sulfur, which caught fire after the cars were breached, CSX said in a previous statement Wednesday.
  — CBS News, 23 Nov. 2023
• The death toll from a flood that took place Wednesday after a lake in northeastern India breached its dam has risen to 79 people as of Saturday.
  — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 7 Oct. 2023
• This prompts Foxconn to claim that Lordstown has breached its contract, and that Foxconn is no longer obligated to close the stock purchase.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 27 June 2023
• Our Test Kitchen devised a simple hack to ensure galette success every time (no leaks or breached pastry here).
  — Melissa Gray, Southern Living, 7 July 2023
• Whoever wins, a bounty of ancient knowledge will soon be breached.
  — Will Henshall, TIME, 21 Oct. 2023
• The only realistic way to catch that whale breaching on digital film is a DSLR camera with a zoom lens.
  — Brittany Chrusciel, Travel + Leisure, 23 June 2023
• In the video, Breen is balancing on his wing foil board in the water when suddenly, a giant whale breaches the surface and collides with Breen.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023
• And even if Zoom and all its employees are completely trustworthy, the risk of Zoom getting breached is omnipresent.
  — Barath Raghavan, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2023
• The company is now being sued by Musk over breaching its founding agreement.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 4 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 7 May 2024