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.
• For his part, Bryan hasn’t let the breakup slow him down either.
  — Claudia Rosenbaum, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
• On defense, Hunter finished with seven total tackles and had two pass breakups that were near-interceptions.
  — David Ubben, The Athletic, 23 Nov. 2024
• And then, of course, there was so much going on to do with the breakup.
  — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 8 May 2024
• 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
• The rules of the last 40 years lead to the breakup of AT&T and the prosecution of Microsoft.
  — Timothy J. Muris, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2023
• Page Six was first to report the breakup and Bell's treatment.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 2 Jan. 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
• Morrone turned 25 in June while DiCaprio was 47 years old at the time of their breakup.
  — Whitney Perry, Glamour, 30 Dec. 2022
• That union ended in divorce 15 years later, the details of the breakup strewn across the tabloids.
  — Adam Nagourney, New York Times, 21 May 2024
• 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
• Then my breakup [with Cuomo] happened, which was a huge thing.
  — Erin Carlson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024
• After an at-the-altar breakup, the two attempted to date, but that didn’t work out.
  — Charlotte Walsh, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2023
• The breakup came as a shock to fans since from the outside in, the two seemed to be in a good place raising their son together.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 4 Oct. 2024
• Porter, a fourth-year junior, made 11 tackles and had two tackles for loss and a pass breakup.
  — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2023
• Everybody went through my breakup [with Cassie Randolph] and the ups and downs of my dating life.
  — Jessica Booth, Peoplemag, 15 May 2023
• Looking back, what were some of the red flags Tran noted ahead of her breakup with ex-fiancé Devin Strader?
  — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 17 Sep. 2024
• Back in the studio, Marcus is watching the breakup unfold all over again.
  — Katie Campione, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024
• 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

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break up

2 of 2 verb

• Pro tip: break up the trip and stop at Sleeping Bear Dunes along the way.
  — Andrea Reeves, The Enquirer, 23 Sep. 2022
• The long nozzle helps to get in between each braid or cornrow to break up the gunk that forms at the root of your hair.
  — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 10 Sep. 2022
• Bystanders tried to break up the fight, pushing the men away and giving Zulu the chance to get off the ground.
  — Shaddi Abusaid, ajc, 22 Sep. 2022
• Overhead, a large rattan pendant light helps break up the otherwise neutral walls.
  — Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Sep. 2022
• The company’s records were broken up in the late seventies and scattered.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
• South Alabama could not cash in either takeaway, but went to the break up by double-digits.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 24 Sep. 2022
• This is largely due to their habitats being broken up and increased human presence.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2024
• Blend hardwood elements and subway tile to break up the green color scheme without overwhelming.
  — Marisa Donnelly, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Sep. 2022
• Woolite's Instaclean stain remover contains ingredients to penetrate and break up stains on contact.
  — Carolyn Forté, Good Housekeeping, 1 Sep. 2022
• Through tonight: Clouds will thin out and break up through the night.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
• In the first video, the fight begins to break up as a Black bystander joins in.
  — Jeremy Gray | , al, 7 Aug. 2023
• Whisk in the almond flour or meal and break up any clumps.
  — Mila Clarke Buckley, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022
• For the next week, the Ohio drifted, waiting for a storm to break up and move the ice.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Dec. 2022
• Police said the victim walked out of the bar to break up a fight.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2022
• The laser breaks up the tattoo ink, which prompts the immune system to take the ink from the skin.
  — Brendan Camp, Verywell Health, 14 Aug. 2024
• 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
• The bridge was such a closing chapter to write post break up.
  — Spin Contributor, SPIN, 16 July 2024
• Did the group thinking about breaking up at that point?
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2023
• The video showed Guetschow trying to break up a fight between two girls.
  — CBS News, 7 Feb. 2023
• No need to break up with a partner over a TikTok trend… this time.
  — Aliza Pelto, Women's Health, 10 Sep. 2023
• The duo finished in fourth and broke up by December of that year.
  — Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 17 Sep. 2024
• The first nine races are broken up into three rounds with three races apiece.
  — Ellen J. Horrow, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2023
• Christine had been killed, and Stephen and Judy Collins had broken up.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2024
• Rough-and-tumble rivals slow games down and break up play.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022
• No need to limit it to one; a few sweet and fruity options break up the salty savory train.
  — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2022
• Trees break up the steps of pulling the water from vessel to vessel so each step is smaller than the whole.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2024
• The East Coast is also less broken up by fault lines, which could interrupt seismic waves, than the West Coast is.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024