How to Use break with in a Sentence

break with

phrasal verb

• This was all, of course, before her big break with the 1992 romcom Boomerang.
  — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 15 Aug. 2024
• Explicitly break with some of Biden’s policies to do something different.
  — George Bradt, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
• After accessing the bladder through the urethra, the stone is broken with lasers, ultrasound, or a crushing device.
  — Jamin Brahmbhatt, Verywell Health, 29 July 2024
• But Tito began to add his guitar parts to their recordings when the brothers broke with Motown and signed with Epic in the mid-’70s.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 16 Sep. 2024
• In a break with verisimilitude, to say nothing of decorum, Beckett storms the stage, grabs the check and starts noisily climbing the side wall to escape public scrutiny.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024
• Although here, too, Blake seems to hold back from delivering the full dramatic weight of the confrontation that allows Lily to finally break with the past.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2024
• So Thomas got the same money and the Heat got a cap (and tax and apron) break with the agreement.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2024
• Ties in any round will be broken with a 60-second swing-off.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2023
• LeBron James scooted up the left side of the court, and the Lakers triggered the break with an outlet.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
• There’s a good chance that string will break with the 2026 election, regardless of how Atkins does.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024
• For Paris the consequence has been a break with the brotherhood.
  — Nurith Aizenman, NPR, 12 May 2024
• For years, the best place to be in Hollywood was on a smoke break with Lynda Obst.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Feb. 2024
• So far, the opposite has happened, as the Orioles entered the All-Star break with the third-best record in the major leagues at 54-35.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2023
• Other figures on the left have publicly broken with him more and more.
  — A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2024
• Christie, who was also once a close Trump ally, broke with the former president in the wake of the 2020 election.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
• This time, though, Israel faces a rare break with Washington.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
• On a break with colleagues one day, Takala feared that her beverage order might be a tell.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• Parents keen to experience a city break with kids in tow might want to jet off to Toronto.
  — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 22 Oct. 2023
• The Warriors are emerging from the All-Star break with a clear path to the postseason ahead of them, but with little room for error to take a wrong turn.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2024
• O’Connor broke with precedent to broadly side with the Brackeens.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 15 June 2023
• But San Francisco got a huge break with a holding call on Kansas City.
  — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2024
• Laid on top of the eerie beats that have become the norm in his hometown, his raps cast a spell that can only be broken with a splash of holy water.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 2 Jan. 2024
• And until this week, Biden had broken with custom and declined to invite Netanyahu to the White House.
  — Owen Tucker-Smith, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2023
• The younger generation wants a sharp break with the past, and the president is listening.
  — Robert B. Zoellick, WSJ, 7 June 2023
• Briefly Jonas Brodin played for the first time since returning from the break with an illness, slotting into the blue line with Zach Bogosian.
  — John Shipley, Twin Cities, 9 Feb. 2024
• Everything else sort of came from that big lucky break with Brian Wilson.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2024
• This explosion of deals is a break with Hollywood’s past.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 9 Mar. 2024
• This is when Lee-Egan’s story breaks with the entirety of the California past.
  — Daniel Duane, New York Times, 30 May 2023
• But the war is yet another, high-profile topic that younger voters break with Biden on.
  — Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 30 May 2024
• Further complicating the market’s effort to break with historical precedent is the backdrop of the 2024 election.
  — Brian Evans, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Oct 2024