How to Use break into in a Sentence

break into

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  • Dëmin stole a pass, broke into the open floor and threw down a windmill.
    C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 8 July 2026
  • At one of the shoots, someone broke into her car and stole her equipment.
    Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 21 July 2026
  • Click here to read our story on how to break into the industry.
    Nathan Diller, USA Today, 8 July 2026
  • Occhicone shot and killed Artzner and then broke into the home.
    Jim Turner, Sun Sentinel, 29 June 2026
  • Her dreams of breaking into the industry grew out of her dad’s passion for movies.
    Stacy Lambe, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026
  • The fragile rock broke into several pieces, the researchers said.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 17 July 2026
  • Apparently, some guy tried to break into our room, but our massive guard cat attacked.
    Joan Morris, Mercury News, 13 July 2026
  • The crowd then broke into huge cheers as the siblings appeared emotional onstage.
    Kirsty Hatcher, PEOPLE, 6 July 2026
  • Fans broke into song and some were moved to tears as Argentina passed to the Round of 16.
    Delia Sauer, Miami Herald, 3 July 2026
  • One day, an eleven-year-old Jones and some friends broke into the neighborhood rec center to feast on soda and ice cream.
    Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 3 July 2026
  • Ohio broke into the top five in CNBC's rankings for the first time last year.
    Scott Cohn, CNBC, 9 July 2026
  • Text is broken into words, sub-words and characters; images into grid-like patches.
    Zoey Forbes, The Dial, 7 July 2026
  • Bad is one of two sets by Jackson that have missed out on breaking into the top 10 by only a few spaces.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Does the person have advice on breaking into the industry or company?
    Sarah Jackson, CNBC, 8 July 2026
  • Of that enormous sum, 43 releases have broken into the top 10.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • Lin had originally purchased a smart doorbell camera after her car was broken into in front of her apartment.
    T.m. Brown, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
  • In his second season and his first summer league, Thiero wants to break into the rotation for the new-look Lakers.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
  • Museum staff and British and French diplomats who had been watching in hushed silence broke into applause.
    ABC News, 10 July 2026
  • The development is broken into a sequence of buildings that rise gradually across the site.
    Bridget Borgobello july 04, New Atlas, 4 July 2026
  • The emotions of the moment overwhelmed Gakpo, who immediately broke into tears.
    Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 29 June 2026
  • The 29-year-old Canale only broke into the national team squad in March after a middling career.
    Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 30 June 2026
  • The announcer breaks into the music whenever there is information to relay about the location of a drone threat.
    Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
  • Amid the photos, though, the model shared comments about photographers breaking into the town hall during the couple's nuptials.
    Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 30 June 2026
  • Once work was broken into repeatable motions, the factory gained something more powerful than the spindle.
    Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • But Stephens and Carter prove that Idaho’s top soccer talent no longer needs to leave the state to break into the professional ranks.
    Idaho Statesman, 9 July 2026
  • Her trip comes just one day after an intruder broke into the Today show studio and threatened her co-anchor Craig Melvin.
    Meg Walters, InStyle, 18 July 2026
  • The same year, an intruder broke into the Pelosis' home and attacked Paul Pelosi with a hammer, fracturing his skull.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 6 July 2026
  • Taylor was shot in her bed by Louisville police officers executing a no-knock raid and using a battering ram to break into her apartment.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • One more baserunner on this hot night, and National League manager Dave Roberts might have broken into a cold sweat.
    Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 15 July 2026
  • This time around, Perry breaks into the top 20 for the first time in her career on the Billboard Global Excl.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026

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