How to Use breakup in a Sentence

breakup

1 of 2 noun

• 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.
• There are the classics: The deaths, the cliffhangers, the breakups, etc.
  — EW.com, 4 Dec. 2024
• Price hikes are what led to the famous breakups of and .
  — Mark Weinstein, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
• Starks had a pass breakup on a deep ball in the fourth quarter.
  — Marc Weiszer, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2022
• And then, of course, there was so much going on to do with the breakup.
  — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 8 May 2024
• But that’s not to say that the breakup has been easy for either of them.
  — Kristina Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2022
• That way the fans would never have to deal with any kind of breakup.
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
• The group’s breakup was, in part, due to Yarrow’s actions with a 14-year-old girl.
  — Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 7 Jan. 2025
• The two sing their parts of the breakup song while fading into the wall print.
  — Sierra Porter, Billboard, 10 Nov. 2022
• As time passed the pain from the breakup began to subside, but the eczema stuck around.
  — Kathryn Watson, SELF, 14 June 2022
• The breakup, the car, the job and the 10th anniversary of their mother’s murder.
  — NBC News, 8 Feb. 2022
• 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
• One of the great results from the end of the Cold War was the breakup of the Soviet empire.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2022
• For his part, Bryan hasn’t let the breakup slow him down either.
  — Claudia Rosenbaum, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
• To say the breakup knocked me over the head was an understatement.
  — Michelle Ingram-Delong, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
• Now, three years later, the 2019 breakup has worked out for both sides.
  — Shane Young, Forbes, 1 June 2022
• 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
• Now, the Girls Trip star has her own theory about the breakup.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2021
• This irks Anna, sowing the seeds of the breakup to follow.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2021
• At the time, Reyes may have been upset due to a recent breakup.
  — Laura Barcella, People.com, 28 Feb. 2025
• This breakup scene is light on jokes, and nailing the tone was a challenge.
  — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2022
• Mendes' new track seems to give a deeper look into his side of the breakup.
  — ELLE, 31 Mar. 2022
• Stone and Garfield have remained close friends since their breakup.
  — Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 30 Dec. 2023
• To be sure, some of these divestitures and breakups follow deals that seem to have been ill-advised from the start.
  — Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 31 Jan. 2026
• Soudain l’été looks at getting back on the dating scene after a breakup as an ordeal.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 31 Jan. 2026
• But experts say polyamorous breakups aren't so different from monogamous ones.
  — Sam Woodward, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026

break up

2 of 2 verb

• Through tonight: Clouds will thin out and break up through the night.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
• If the soil is sticky clay, break up clumps with the shovel.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 28 Aug. 2021
• The only guard who was there was too small to break up the fight.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2021
• The other two people in the car got out and tried to break up the fight.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2022
• Taking short breaks to break up the day helps to stay fresh!
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2021
• To break up the cookies, use a knife, a rolling pin, or your hands.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2021
• 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
• Will Fuller V in the end zone, and used the leverage to break up the play in overtime.
  — Steve Svekis, sun-sentinel.com, 27 Sep. 2021
• Pro tip: break up the trip and stop at Sleeping Bear Dunes along the way.
  — Andrea Reeves, The Enquirer, 23 Sep. 2022
• Hill launched a three-run home run in the top of the fifth to break up the tension and put ASU ahead 3-1.
  — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 29 May 2022
• Part of that is breaking up the big tech firms, which are too big.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 1 Feb. 2025
• 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
• Police kept out of view and didn’t step in to break up the fighting.
  — oregonlive, 25 Aug. 2021
• 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
• All in all, do your best to break up with your toxic boss with grace and class.
  — Adunola Adeshola, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
• 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
• Just for old times’ sake, Ohtani broke up the shutout with a solo home run in the eighth inning.
  — Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 12 Aug. 2025
• On the other field, Minkah Fitzpatrick broke up a Goff pass.
  — C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
• Swayman went down to one knee and the referees broke up the skirmish.
  — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 2 Feb. 2026
• Linesmen broke up that disagreement before either goalie threw a punch.
  — Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
• The musician’s set was broken up into three acts.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 2 Feb. 2026
• This time, Tarzan is breaking up with Jane (Sherman).
  — Andy Hoglund, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Feb. 2026