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.
  • That was an enormous breach of trust.
    Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2025
  • That is how these breaches work.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 Apr. 2026
  • When a breach hits, speed matters.
    Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Reuters was the first to report the breach.
    Luke Barr, ABC News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • This is the breach in the wall that the smugglers have cut through.
    CBS News, 10 Dec. 2023
  • The breach of contract claim was dismissed by the court.
    Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 11 June 2026
  • Next, see if your email has been exposed in past breaches.
    Adriana James-Rodil, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2026
  • That way, one breach will not put your other accounts at risk.
    FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Now, a new breach has come to light that targets a nursery chain.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Data breaches have been around for years.
    Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • They can’t be leaked in database breaches.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The group first announced the breach on March 20.
    Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Do this even if there is no confirmation of a breach.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Waiting for an audit or a breach is not an option.
    Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Sometimes the breach is direct.
    Gautam Mukunda, Mercury News, 20 June 2026
  • The Modal breach appears to have been one stop along a broader path.
    Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 29 July 2026
  • Army paid a $4,000 civil fine for the breach.
    Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The breach itself may also be long gone from the headlines.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 May 2026
  • Still, his wife insisted that his refusal felt like a breach of trust.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
  • That’s not the only very quiet breach that happened this past week.
    Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 12 June 2026
  • That really would have been a breach of the court's practices.
    Nina Totenberg, NPR, 26 June 2026
  • Next, see if your passwords have been exposed in past breaches.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • For some, those alerts were the first warning that their data appeared in a breach.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The former can step into the breach today.
    Johnny L. Hughes, Baltimore Sun, 7 Jan. 2026
  • For decades, the job was uptime and breach prevention.
    Julie Averill, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
  • Carlson is charged with second-degree breach of peace.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Vimeo disclosed the breach on Monday.
    Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 28 Apr. 2026

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.
  • Ravens have just breached the nest.
    Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Agents hit the door forcefully twice and breached the door.
    Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026
  • Not even a makeshift United defence could be breached.
    Stuart James, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2026
  • How are they wronged unless and until the contract is breached?
    Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Mathews was on the other side of the fence and believed the car could breach it.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Each side has accused the other of breaching the truce.
    Arkansas Online, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Cook's lawyers said Trump had no cause to fire her and, in doing so, breached her rights.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
  • If one site is breached, the rest of your accounts stay protected.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 29 Dec. 2025
  • This average hasn't been breached by more than three weeks going back decades.
    Jay Woods, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Either party could leave with cause if one of the groups breached the agreement.
    Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Pitt has fought this sale, claiming the move breached a contract between the two.
    Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Palou does not deny breaching his contact.
    Tom Burrows, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Officers had to use force to keep a crowd-control fence from being breached.
    Brian Melley, Arkansas Online, 14 Sep. 2025
  • That has caused the vehicle to breach one of its financial covenants.
    WSJ, 18 July 2023
  • There were a total of six sharks spotted that day — two even breaching the water.
    Ana Ramirez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The military said in a later statement its airspace had not been breached.
    Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
  • In the last two days, two levees have been breached in suburbs of Seattle.
    Evan Bush, NBC news, 16 Dec. 2025
  • By that time, flames had breached Lahaina Town, some survivors have said.
    Lewis Kamb, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The drone breached the country’s airspace at dawn and was shot down in the eastern desert, the statement said.
    Mustafa Qadri, CNN Money, 28 July 2026
  • Each side has accused the other of breaching the 10-day truce.
    Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
  • It can be collected, packaged, breached, sold and reused against people over and over again.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 May 2026
  • Within minutes, flames breach the walls and enter the building.
    Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 16 July 2026
  • 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
  • If the site gets breached, your core identity remains untouched.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The bullion rose more than 3% to breach the $5,500 per ounce mark for the first time.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 28 Jan. 2026
  • If one of those systems is breached, criminals can obtain card numbers in bulk.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Modal’s own platform and isolation systems were not breached.
    Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 29 July 2026

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