How to Use breakup in a Sentence

breakup

1 of 2 noun
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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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 | [email protected], 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
  • Larsen leads the team with three interceptions, along with five pass breakups.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The party marked the first public event featuring three of the four Beatles since the band’s 1969 breakup.
    — Shera Avi-Yonah, Washington Post, 17 June 2023
  • The more outrageous and awful the breakups, the more viewers watch and keep the show in conversations.
    — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The couple were together for about a year before Bryan announced their breakup on his Instagram story last week.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2024
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break up

2 of 2 verb
  • Freeze for another 1–2 hours, and mix again to break up large ice crystals.
    — Antara Sinha, Bon Appétit, 8 Oct. 2022
  • To break up all of the black and red, do as Aguilera did and top your lids with glitter eye shadow.
    — Taylor Lane, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Initial plans to break up the encampment near the dome came to light Monday.
    — Owen Tripp, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Christine had been killed, and Stephen and Judy Collins had broken up.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Allie says Aileen continued to pressure Abell to break up with Araujo for good.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 19 Oct. 2024
  • To do so, researchers first break up brain tissue, isolate cell nuclei, and use sequencing to understand what genes are active in that cell.
    — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The cabinets bring instant visual interest and are a clever way to break up a wall of solid cabinetry without losing storage space when used as an accent.
    — Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Queen Camilla is said to have a fear of flying and has previously departed early for royal tours, breaking up the trips with a stop at a favorite spa.
    — Janine Henni, People.com, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Instead, with this campaign, Intuit might have inspired more financial professionals to break up with them.
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Republicans approved a bill last spring to break up Milwaukee Public Schools into four to eight districts.
    — Corrinne Hess, Journal Sentinel, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Fichman operates from what looks like a command center that displays images of the eye and makes calculations to break up the cataract with laser energy and address astigmatism.
    — Jake Dressler, Hartford Courant, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Despite the fact that the two broke up all the way back in 2015 after dating for four years, most people have great memories of the two together and the pair have remained friends to this day.
    — Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Teddy Bridgewater led the Dolphins on a touchdown drive to end the half, but Cincinnati went into the break up 14-12.
    — Jonathan X. Simmons, cleveland, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The alleged victim used a putter to try to keep the man at a distance, but the 61-year-old allegedly grabbed him and hit him five times around the head and neck before another group arrived to break up the fight, police wrote.
    — Aaron Falk, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Oct. 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

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