How to Use breach in a Sentence

breach

1 of 2 noun
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  • This is clearly a breach of the treaty.
  • The judge ruled that the doctor's actions were in breach of her contractual duty.
  • Many people consider her decision to be a breach of trust.
  • This is the breach in the wall that the smugglers have cut through.
    — CBS News, 10 Dec. 2023
  • So was video of Epps from the next day just before the breach of the first barricades.
    — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The dam's breach could have a massive impact on the wider war effort between Russia and Ukraine.
    — Yulia Drozd, ABC News, 8 June 2023
  • Netanyahu also faces a litany of corruption charges on bribery, fraud and breach of trust.
    — Paul Goldman, NBC News, 16 July 2023
  • Meta has been the target of the DPC for regulatory breaches for more than a year.
    — Christopher Hutton, Washington Examiner, 17 May 2023
  • In 2014, Silvergate, filled this breach and became the first U.S. crypto bank.
    — Mark T. Williams, Fortune, 21 June 2023
  • Mayorkas, 64, faced two charges from the House: willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law and breach of public trust.
    — Kyler Alvord, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The breach, which the company learned about on July 5, is one of the biggest health care breaches in history.
    — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 11 July 2023
  • This was an extraordinary breach on the part of the judgment of the heads of these universities.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2023
  • The big difference is that detecting the identity breach is all on you.
    — PCMAG, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Uber’s new management ultimately finds out the truth and discloses the breach publicly, and to the FTC.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 5 May 2023
  • Another publisher, William Collins, stepped into the breach and took the book to market.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Perhaps word of a 5% breach finally brought out some buyers.
    — WSJ, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Raw sewage has poured for decades onto pristine breaches.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023
  • The debt ceiling breach could wipe out 8 million jobs, a recent analysis found.
    — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 31 May 2023
  • The new report has ransomware figuring in 24% of breaches, just about the same in the previous release.
    — Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 7 June 2023
  • To stamp out the threat, the company was also set to terminate all the session tokens exposed in the Okta breach.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Failure to do so won’t mean a breach of the contract, but it would be addressed in the board’s evaluation of his job performance.
    — Danny Shameer, arkansasonline.com, 2 Apr. 2024
  • By contrast, this year’s breaches were both large and numerous.
    — Katie Palmer, STAT, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The technologies and tactics of such breaches have not changed in nearly half a century.
    — Mick Ryan, Foreign Affairs, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Kakhovka dam breach — the latest updates People still in the affected areas have been warned of floating mines and the threat of disease.
    — NBC News, 7 June 2023
  • Yet another scenario is that the vessel had a hull breach and imploded instantly due to the heavy pressure in the deep ocean.
    — USA TODAY, 22 June 2023
  • That act alone may have put the American Club in breach of the sanctions, although the safe harbor rules make any penalty unlikely.
    — David Botti, New York Times, 30 May 2023
  • At the moment of impact, fans roared reflexively at the breach of protocol.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Lockheed has characterized the move as a contract breach.
    — Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The delay seems to have been due to resistance from the Georgia secretary of state’s office, which, for months, denied that a breach had occurred.
    — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2023
  • And Kennedy’s name does not appear on the Justice Department’s website listing the defendants in the Capitol breach cases.
    — Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2024
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breach

2 of 2 verb
  • The army breached the castle wall.
  • Is he going to breach his contract?
  • He claims that the city breached an agreement by selling the property.
  • Two of the 16 CSX train cars that derailed were breached, spilling molten sulfur.
    — Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Prosecutors said the pair was in a group that was near the front of the crowd that breached the second one.
    — The Arizona Republic, 6 Jan. 2024
  • That has caused the vehicle to breach one of its financial covenants.
    — WSJ, 18 July 2023
  • By that time, flames had breached Lahaina Town, some survivors have said.
    — Lewis Kamb, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Suddenly, a humpback breached right in front of our boat.
    — oregonlive, 11 July 2023
  • Though some of the containers have been breached, the Coast Guard says there is currently no threat to the public.
    — Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The suit was settled out of court, but Blades wound up suing the company again, in 2004, claiming the deal had been breached.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2023
  • And there were 56 containers of hazardous materials on board at the time of the crash, some of which were breached.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 28 Mar. 2024
  • There were a total of six sharks spotted that day — two even breaching the water.
    — Ana Ramirez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Tarrio was not at the Capitol on Jan. 6 but had organized Proud Boys members who were among the first to breach the building.
    — USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2023
  • This border crossing was one of many breached early in the morning of Oct. 7 by Hamas militants.
    — Victoria Beaule, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Pawpaw branches have breached the trellis fences on either side of Mr. Farzan’s yard.
    — Molly Fitzpatrick, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The city did not respond to The News’ questions of how many individuals had their data breached.
    — Jason Beeferman, Dallas News, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Futures for Brent crude, the international benchmark mark, breached $90 a barrel for the first time this year.
    — Stanley Reed, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
  • That day, dozens of Proud Boys leaders, members, and associates were among the first rioters to breach the Capitol.
    — Michael Kunzelman and Lindsey Whitehurst, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Was the family with two kids breaching the ‘one child policy’?
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Now that the index has managed to breach the top level of resistance, that raises the question: Does this rally have legs?
    — Krystal Hur, CNN, 4 June 2023
  • Peskov, however, said Saturday that the release breached the terms of an agreement.
    — Nick Parker, Washington Post, 9 July 2023
  • Two of the 16 cars that derailed carried molten sulfur, which caught fire after the cars were breached, CSX said in a previous statement Wednesday.
    — CBS News, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The death toll from a flood that took place Wednesday after a lake in northeastern India breached its dam has risen to 79 people as of Saturday.
    — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 7 Oct. 2023
  • This prompts Foxconn to claim that Lordstown has breached its contract, and that Foxconn is no longer obligated to close the stock purchase.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 27 June 2023
  • Our Test Kitchen devised a simple hack to ensure galette success every time (no leaks or breached pastry here).
    — Melissa Gray, Southern Living, 7 July 2023
  • Whoever wins, a bounty of ancient knowledge will soon be breached.
    — Will Henshall, TIME, 21 Oct. 2023
  • The only realistic way to catch that whale breaching on digital film is a DSLR camera with a zoom lens.
    — Brittany Chrusciel, Travel + Leisure, 23 June 2023
  • In the video, Breen is balancing on his wing foil board in the water when suddenly, a giant whale breaches the surface and collides with Breen.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023
  • And even if Zoom and all its employees are completely trustworthy, the risk of Zoom getting breached is omnipresent.
    — Barath Raghavan, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2023
  • After Ecuadorian authorities evicted him from their embassy in 2019, he was arrested by British police for breaching the terms of his bail.
    — Fatima Al-Kassab, NPR, 26 Mar. 2024

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