How to Use breakup in a Sentence
breakup
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.
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That way the fans would never have to deal with any kind of breakup.
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Mikael Wood,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Mar. 2024
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The Saints came into the game with a good pass defense and more breakups than any team in the NFL.
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Sam Farmer,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Dec. 2023
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To say the breakup knocked me over the head was an understatement.
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Michelle Ingram-Delong,
Los Angeles Times,
16 June 2023
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Stone and Garfield have remained close friends since their breakup.
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Boutayna Chokrane,
Vogue,
30 Dec. 2023
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Some of them overlapped, and there were breakups and makeups.
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Angie Martoccio,
Rolling Stone,
26 Feb. 2024
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In that sense, there was nothing tragic or even sad about the breakup of Wham!
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
8 July 2023
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The government even has the right to ask for a breakup of the Silicon Valley icon.
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Tripp Mickle,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2024
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One thing that happened during the awakening of the late '60s and '70s was the breakup of the family.
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Dana Taylor,
USA TODAY,
16 July 2023
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Chambers herself has found love again in the wake of her breakup with Hammer.
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Tommy McArdle,
Peoplemag,
28 June 2023
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Amos posted a team-high eight pass breakups last fall and entered the portal on April 30.
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Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com,
al,
9 May 2023
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After an at-the-altar breakup, the two attempted to date, but that didn’t work out.
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Charlotte Walsh,
Vulture,
6 Sep. 2023
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Everybody went through my breakup [with Cassie Randolph] and the ups and downs of my dating life.
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Jessica Booth,
Peoplemag,
15 May 2023
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Maybe try sitting with the discomfort of this being a bad breakup.
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Meredith Goldstein,
BostonGlobe.com,
21 July 2023
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Conflicts and group breakups may follow when one or more of them succeed.
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Barry Mazor,
WSJ,
4 July 2023
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Larsen leads the team with three interceptions, along with five pass breakups.
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Kirk Kenney,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 Oct. 2023
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The party marked the first public event featuring three of the four Beatles since the band’s 1969 breakup.
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Shera Avi-Yonah,
Washington Post,
17 June 2023
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Shakira has since released a string of hits about the breakup and moved to Miami with the couple’s two sons.
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Rosa Sanchez,
Harper's BAZAAR,
14 Aug. 2023
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Usher, however, says that for him, things ended at the time of their breakup.
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Janine Rubenstein,
Peoplemag,
15 Feb. 2024
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In the 20 years since their breakup, though, they had been estranged and had not acted together again.
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Jada Yuan,
Washington Post,
9 Feb. 2024
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After the couple’s breakup in 2022, Nodál covered up a chest tattoo of her eyes with wings.
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Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
1 Feb. 2024
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In the message, the sender allegedly comments on Rexha’s weight and alludes to a breakup.
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Christi Carras,
Los Angeles Times,
18 July 2023
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At the time, the world began to re-examine their 2002 breakup and the damage his response had on Spears' career.
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Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
27 Jan. 2024
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In the years after their breakup, Amie told her parents her home was broken into.
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Erin Moriarty,
CBS News,
10 Feb. 2024
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Jones finished the day with seven tackles, two sacks and a pass breakup in addition to the safety.
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Lia Assimakopoulos,
Dallas News,
26 Aug. 2023
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When Midge and Susie have a falling out this season, their breakup scene plays like a hostile divorce.
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Whitney Friedlander,
Los Angeles Times,
26 May 2023
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Widespread gun ownership is largely a legacy of the wars that came after the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
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Constant Méheut,
New York Times,
6 May 2023
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