How to Use breakthrough in a Sentence

breakthrough

1 of 2 noun

• This job could be the breakthrough she's been waiting for.
• The police have announced a breakthrough in the murder case.
• Researchers say they have made a major breakthrough in cancer treatment.
• And this led to her big breakthrough.
  — Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2026
• Then came a breakthrough the next year.
  — Glae Thien, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
• And then there was a breakthrough.
  — Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 5 Jan. 2026
• The breakthrough lies in salty ice.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
• But the breakthrough was short-lived.
  — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 2 Mar. 2026
• The move comes as there are no signs of a breakthrough.
  — Zac Anderson, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
• That is not to say the field has lacked breakthroughs.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Mar. 2026
• The case has had a few breakthroughs, and some dead ends.
  — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 14 May 2026
• The case has had a few breakthroughs, and some dead ends.
  — Sarah Lapidus, USA Today, 8 May 2026
• And in their stead… not a ton of breakthrough artists have emerged.
  — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 9 Aug. 2022
• What were the breakthroughs in the Guthrie case?
  — Sarah Lapidus, USA Today, 8 May 2026
• The breakthrough came in the 25th minute.
  — Asli Pelit, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
• Our problem is not just a lack of breakthroughs.
  — Ken Dychtwald, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
• The breakthrough came in the 32nd minute.
  — Clark Fahrenthold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
• One thing that did breakthrough from the parents?
  — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 25 Apr. 2026
• One thing that did breakthrough from the parents?
  — Tracy Kimball, Charlotte Observer, 29 Apr. 2026
• Michelle says dealing with the break-in led to a breakthrough.
  — Tracy Smith, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2023
• Learn deeply from them to earn your breakthroughs to the next level.
  — Byluv Tulsidas, Fortune, 4 June 2024
• These breakthroughs are built on decades of insights.
  — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
• Not through new drugs or breakthrough science.
  — Joe Kiani, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2026
• In fact, her breakthrough wasn’t mere months in the making, but years.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026
• Let that boredom be your breakthrough.
  — Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• That song was a huge breakthrough for me as an artist, but more so as a person.
  — Caitlin Brody, Glamour, 10 June 2022
• That crossover is where breakthroughs live.
  — Alexander Foster, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
• James’ breakthrough in Brazil is part of a broader shift.
  — Alex Ashley, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
• The growth was not driven by a single event or breakthrough.
  — Ethan Stone, Miami Herald, 25 June 2026
• What was the breakthrough that led to the success of the vaccines?
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 2 Oct. 2023

break through

2 of 2 verb

• Did your ship break through a lot of ice?
  — Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
• Jones broke through for a sack that forced a punt.
  — Kansas City Star, 26 Dec. 2025
• When your soul breaks through the noise to save you.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
• But for a new artist right now to break through, oh my god.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2026
• At some point, the Wild have to break through.
  — Michael Russo, New York Times, 14 May 2026
• But my true laugh always broke through.
  — Erin Entrada Kelly, PEOPLE, 11 May 2026
• Neither side could break through to win.
  — Braidon Nourse, Denver Post, 28 Sep. 2025
• Sunshine will break through at times.
  — Rachael Jay, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2026
• See the video above the moment the waves broke through.
  — Ronnie Li, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
• Why isn't that breaking through?
  — ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026
• In 2025, that work broke through.
  — Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 12 Mar. 2026
• The writer doesn’t know which book will break through.
  — Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2026
• So how do the Horned Frogs break through?
  — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Mar. 2026
• Spain controlled most of the first half but failed to break through.
  — Greg Rosenstein, NBC News, 14 July 2024
• Then a voice in English broke through.
  — Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
• The group had broken through near the tail-end of doo-wop’s peak.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 19 Aug. 2024
• His side needs to break through against a Cup favorite.
  — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 24 June 2026
• Against that backdrop, would Dover be able to break through?
  — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2026
• The 2023 fourth-rounder hasn’t been able to break through.
  — Kevin Fishbain, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2025
• To break through that second round of the playoffs.
  — Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
• The others would be breaking through the walls any minute now.
  — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 26 June 2026
• Attackers broke through the roof and shot him in the back of the head.
  — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
• Once ice on the lake is less than a foot thick, a towboat and barge can break through.
  — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2024
• That’s maybe where a more honest emotion can break through.
  — Alma Rota, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
• Bay had a bit more of the ball in the second half, but still could not break through.
  — Michael Nowels, Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2026
• Too many of these biotech names are tied to one specific drug break through.
  — Jay Woods, CNBC, 2 July 2026
• Storm chances will depend on the cap and how much breaks through the cloud cover.
  — Michael Autovino, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
• Some have even broken through windows.
  — Dennis Valera, CBS News, 11 May 2026
• Just one, a 50-year-old ship, can break through 20 feet of ice.
  — Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
• Around five, the sun broke through the clouds, a beery yellow light that made the leaves glint like glass.
  — Robert Moor, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026