How to Use breakthrough in a Sentence

breakthrough

1 of 2 noun

• This job could be the breakthrough she's been waiting for.
• The police have announced a breakthrough in the murder case.
• Researchers say they have made a major breakthrough in cancer treatment.
• Her breakthrough came in 2005, in the summer after her first year at Yale.
  — Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• My breakthrough was doing my training, healing myself, and then helping others do the same.
  — Emily Burns, ELLE, 9 Jan. 2023
• The breakthrough shows that our ancestors may have had more in common with us than previously understood.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 9 Jan. 2023
• After months of fighting, that strategy may have just secured its first battlefield breakthrough — and a Kremlin response.
  — Matt Bradley, NBC News, 12 Jan. 2023
• But the biggest breakthrough was how the team developed underwater performance capture.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 5 Jan. 2023
• But there are as many reasons to celebrate the Jeffries breakthrough as there are reasons to consider the complex truth about what his personal success may produce.
  — Janell Ross, Time, 3 Jan. 2023
• Thus, beyond the air meet’s ticket sales, the leading-edge pioneers of aviation came here — watching, learning, dreaming up the next breakthrough in flying technology.
  — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2023
• The cars used in the sport, too, are nothing short of engineering breakthroughs, making tech innovation and investment the crux of the F1 championship.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 26 Nov. 2024
• What was the breakthrough that led to the success of the vaccines?
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 2 Oct. 2023
• That truth led to a breakthrough for the Hip-Hop starlet.
  — Rivea Ruff, Essence, 10 Apr. 2024
• Michelle says dealing with the break-in led to a breakthrough.
  — Tracy Smith, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2023
• Learn deeply from them to earn your breakthroughs to the next level.
  — Byluv Tulsidas, Fortune, 4 June 2024
• Look no further than the recent breakthroughs in the menopause space.
  — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 31 May 2024
• In a space where breakthroughs happen by the week, this can be tiresome.
  — Eric Olson, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2024
• But the breakthrough seems to be a step in the right direction, especially for the short-term.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2023
• So, too, was the role that China played, hosting the discussions that led to the breakthrough.
  — Vivian Nereim, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2023
• The only breakthrough came on Helfrick's home run, a 387-blast to left field for the freshman's third of the season.
  — Tom Murphy, arkansasonline.com, 27 Apr. 2024
• The breakthrough came down to lasers focused on a small capsule of fuel.
  — Sara Lang, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2023
• The breakthrough came at an important point in the Dodgers season.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2024
• Each breakthrough was another step in the march toward the two-hour mark.
  — Julian Benbow, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
• The real breakthrough, however, came with the K-pop boy band Stray Kids.
  — TIME, 5 Mar. 2024
• Then came a breakthrough: With the game tied, Edey spun, then thrust at the hoop for a layup with his left hand, reclaiming the lead with 57 seconds to go.
  — Noah Weiland Lee Klafczynski, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2023
• That’s why Sunday’s breakthrough, in which Moore had five catches for 105 yards and two touchdowns, was so big for the Bears.
  — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2024
• And within a couple days of getting the court order: a breakthrough.
  — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
• Braswell, who joined UPS in 1989, didn’t expect any breakthroughs from the company.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 27 July 2023
• The last time the Mexican trio, who had a breakthrough in the early 2000s, had released an album was five years ago.
  — Griselda Flores, Billboard, 2 Aug. 2024
• Beyond lupus, doctors hope CAR-T portends a bigger breakthrough against autoimmune diseases, whose prevalence has been on a troubling rise.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2024

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break through

2 of 2 verb

• In a scoreless first half, the Mustangs had a considerable edge in territory and earned five corner kicks but were unable to break through.
  — Glenn Graham, Baltimore Sun, 19 Nov. 2024
• Mau broke through with her performance in the wildly popular Netflix show Baby Reindeer in April.
  — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2024
• Y’all are just going to have to break through the door.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2023
• Y’all are just going to have to break through the door.
  — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 12 Apr. 2024
• The Cougars made it to the doorstep of the College Cup five times, but couldn’t break through.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Nov. 2022
• The group had broken through near the tail-end of doo-wop’s peak.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 19 Aug. 2024
• Spain controlled most of the first half but failed to break through.
  — Greg Rosenstein, NBC News, 14 July 2024
• Once ice on the lake is less than a foot thick, a towboat and barge can break through.
  — Journal Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2024
• In the 14th minute, Judd broke through the Timbers’ back line and fired a shot out of Bingham’s reach.
  — oregonlive, 25 Mar. 2023
• But by his side, not heavy enough to break through the ice, was his dog, Ruby.
  — Lauren Liebhaber, Kansas City Star, 19 Jan. 2024
• After a back-and-forth first half hour, the Timbers broke through.
  — oregonlive, 10 Sep. 2023
• Still, these interjections fail to break through the monotony of the show.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 12 Apr. 2024
• But the Panthers couldn’t break through and complete the comeback.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 15 May 2024
• The name is meant to convey the drilling tool’s ability to break through things and dive deep.
  — Annie Palmer, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2024
• Austin Ekeler broke through a big hole on the first play during 11-on-11.
  — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2023
• If Aso backs her, Kamikawa could break through the highest of Japan’s glass ceilings.
  — Ian Bremmer, TIME, 23 May 2024
• But give it a few more years, say some researchers, and one or two of these could very well break through.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2023
• Dolce Zel was the 8-to-5 favorite before breaking through the gate.
  — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2023
• Chair Rich Leib praised Steinberg for helping the two sides break through the standoff in just a week.
  — Teresa Watanabestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2022
• To break through, the Republicans will need to stage their own show.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 14 Dec. 2023
• Shanahan dialed up the trick play in a moment in which the team needed to break through.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2024
• Here's a breakdown of where to be, what to see, and who could really break through big.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 7 Dec. 2022
• Except, in the end, something breaks through the surface of that silence.
  — Damon Wise, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2024
• To break through the concrete mask of a certain feeling at a certain time.
  — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 5 Sep. 2023
• Stay dry and break through the wind with this high-functioning jacket.
  — Mark Stock and Ebenezer Samuel, Men's Health, 2 Dec. 2022
• Now, candidates are racing to break through the fog before the polls close in less than a month.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 11 Apr. 2024
• Which school will break through to join the Big Three in the Division 1 semifinals?
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• The Athletics broke through for the game’s first run in the sixth against Bassitt, with Max Schuemann scoring on a wild pitch.
  — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 7 June 2024
• These odds and ends all come from sellers looking to break through and make a buck on Black Friday.
  — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 20 Nov. 2023
• Now the challenge is to come back to her home state and help an old franchise to finally break through.
  — David Waldstein, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024