How to Use breakout in a Sentence

breakout

1 of 3 noun
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  • Jonathon Brooks is primed for a 2023 breakout Brooks just keeps finding the end zone.
    — Corey Smith, Dallas News, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Having inflamed breakouts on the body can come with a side of heat.
    — Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 13 May 2023
  • Two years ago, Robinson appeared on the verge of a breakout.
    — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2023
  • A lot of artists have those big breakout albums that fans can rally around.
    — Ryan Reed, SPIN, 25 Oct. 2023
  • That stealth nuance has to be the very thing that made this 25-year-old St. Louis native into the year’s breakout rap star, right?
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Marvel picked Poulter at the right time, as the actor has been poised for a major breakout for a while.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 5 May 2023
  • The night of Thanksgiving, seven men staged a breakout.
    — Keri Blakinger, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Six solo comics, or a breakout member of a troupe or ensemble, will duke it out for the prize for the first time on the Jan. 7 telecast.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Burke’s early-season breakout has been more than a nice bonus.
    — Corey Smith, Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2023
  • These skin types tend to overproduce sebum, which leads to clogged pores and breakouts.
    — Lacey Muinos, Health, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Lola Tung’s breakout role taught her a thing or two about breakouts.
    — Jenny Berg, Vogue, 13 July 2023
  • This cream plumps up the face, reduces the appearance of fine lines, and prevents scarring and breakouts.
    — Essence, 23 Sep. 2023
  • But if a breakout were to happen, Iran could afford to risk Hezbollah in a fight with Israel.
    — Marc Champion, Twin Cities, 21 Jan. 2024
  • What results is a breakout that may show up as whiteheads, blackheads, pimples or all of the above.
    — Adele Jackson-Gibson, goodhousekeeping.com, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Both country music icons and breakout artists will be taking to the stage at Austin's Moody Center.
    — Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Quinton Cooley led the Flames with 79 yards and had the best breakout of the game on 41-yard rush in the third quarter, but the run game was downplayed for the first time this season.
    — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Many of the breakout sports docuseries in recent years have focused on entire leagues.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The Longhorn linebacker’s breakout junior season had just ended, and the moment was still a little too raw to make a call on the spot.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • This is especially true if your skin is prone to breakouts or clogged pores.
    — Shannon Ullman, Health, 5 May 2023
  • However, insiders say the show remains shy of the breakout hit the studio hoped for.
    — Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The Afrobeats artist’s breakout number recently broke into the U.K. top 10.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The microphone’s breakout board applies a gain of 64x, using two stages.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Nov. 2023
  • My quest for clear skin has been an arduous journey, which has led me to search for any and all causes to these breakouts.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Most union members are not breakout stars, and many struggle to eke out an existence in one of the most expensive cities in the world.
    — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Read: When a lie becomes your breakout film Perhaps that sounds cruel.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2024
  • This sizzling time of year can also leave skin with much to be desired due to breakouts, brown spots and high doses of redness.
    — Elycia Rubin, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 July 2023
  • These are some of the OG stars in the pimple patch realm and are the ultimate, no-fuss solution to flattening and healing breakouts that have come to a head.
    — Sarah Han, Allure, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The monthly graph shows a breakout above resistance on a close-only basis.
    — Bill Sarubbi, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
  • This small tub contains about six months worth of product, so your future breakouts are covered too.
    — Andrea Navarro, Glamour, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Prime Video’s breakout feel-good girlfriend dramedy, Harlem, has been renewed for a third season at the streaming platform.
    — Rivea Ruff, Essence, 28 Mar. 2024
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breakout

2 of 3 adjective
  • The company had a breakout year last year, tripling its profits from the previous year.
  • The part made Cloud the breakout star of one the buzziest shows in television.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2023
  • The part made Cloud the breakout star of one the buzziest shows on television.
    — USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
  • The actress got her breakout role in the horror film Halloween over 40 years ago.
    — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 27 Oct. 2023
  • How does a former normie turned breakout TV star get ready for an event like the Emmys?
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Dixon judges blockchain to still be waiting for its breakout moment.
    — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Lola Tung’s breakout role taught her a thing or two about breakouts.
    — Jenny Berg, Vogue, 13 July 2023
  • Alarie has been down off of previous years but Calvert has had a breakout 19-year-old year to make up for it.
    — Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Alaïa’s mesh flats—a shoe that puts one’s feet on full display, toes and all—were the breakout accessory of the summer.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Montgomery is the breakout star of this year’s postseason, having won three starts for the Texas Rangers in these playoffs.
    — Lindsey Adler, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The singer and songwriter now reprises her breakout role in the new film from the producers of the original, Tina Fey and Lorne Michaels.
    — Carita Rizzo, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Miller believes the Red Raiders could have another breakout star in the making in Linton.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 20 Aug. 2023
  • Tom Cruise is looking back fondly on his breakout role.
    — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 21 June 2023
  • None of the candidates had a breakout moment that might have given Donald Trump a scare.
    — William McGurn, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Now, in the streaming era, songwriters say the only way to get a livable wage is to write the album’s breakout single.
    — Kristin Robinson, Billboard, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The result produced a collective of breakout stars who shined on record, on stage, across TV screens, and on silver screens.
    — Dr. Marcus Collins, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • That the designer dressed Richard Gere for his breakout role in 1980’s American Gigolo is part of his lore, but watch it again.
    — Josh Condon, Robb Report, 3 Sep. 2023
  • After leaving the remote Virginia set, the actor went on to have a long career since the movie’s breakout success.
    — EW.com, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Look out for a young Harrison Ford in his breakout role as the wisecracking Bob Falfa.
    — Emma Dibdin, Town & Country, 24 May 2023
  • The ’90s were a massive breakout period for Blige, and her makeup looks were indicative of it.
    — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Millie got the sweetest tribute to her breakout role in Stranger Things tattooed onto her wrist.
    — Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Gravely started as a freshman last year and is looking for a breakout season.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2023
  • With the buzz surrounding Winter’s return, 2024 seems slated to be her big breakout year.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Frankel's current role in HOTD is considered his breakout role.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 11 Oct. 2022
  • After smaller parts throughout his childhood and teen years, Hodge got a breakout role in Leverage at age 21.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Essence, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The Dallas Cowboys placed their franchise tag on Tony Pollard and still hope to work out a long-term deal with the running back coming off a breakout season.
    — Stephen Hawkins, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2023
  • What will be the finishing flourish to breakout seasons by Zacha, Clifton, and Trent Frederic?
    — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2023
  • But it’s there, on the field and on tape, for anyone to see how much better Aidan Hutchinson is starting to play since his breakout three-sack game Week 2 against Washington.
    — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Lake gained national attention as a breakout GOP star known for her combative style on the campaign trail and ease in front of the cameras.
    — Arkansas Online, 10 Nov. 2022
  • After his breakout role in the German tragicomedy Good Bye, Lenin!
    — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2024
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break out

3 of 3 verb
  • You are meant to break out of this pattern once and for all.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2024
  • So pull out your best eyeshadow pallets and break out the face paint and fake blood, and get to work.
    — Larry Stansbury, Good Housekeeping, 30 June 2022
  • But the more serious threat is that infections could break out on massive pig farms to the north.
    — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 17 July 2022
  • As officers pulled him down and attempted to take him into custody, a fight broke out.
    — The Arizona Republic, 21 Oct. 2024
  • So, you're probably used to the arguments that can break out over what movie to watch on All Hollow's Eve.
    — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 22 June 2022
  • There is a lot to gain for coaches who break out from their individual practices and meet with like-minded professionals.
    — Alina Trigubenko, Forbes, 6 July 2022
  • Stupid death is on my mind again the following year, as my mother turns 60 and surpasses her mother in life, just in time for a global pandemic to break out.
    — Vanessa A. Bee, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 July 2022
  • The park has been thinning fuels through mechanical means around hotels, stores and other buildings to provide a defensive space should wildfires break out.
    — New York Times, 2 July 2022
  • Luckily, a new crop of summer cookbooks delivers elevated approaches to outdoor cooking, with plenty of inspiration to break out of that rut.
    — Adina Steiman, WSJ, 8 July 2022
  • The answer is in realizing, as a first step, that there’s some basic brain science involved, then to break out of the cycle, find new things to focus on instead, and control our usage as a way to combat the addiction.
    — John Brandon, Forbes, 27 June 2022
  • Where fires broke out The fires broke out on the islands of Hawaii and Maui.
    — Justine McDaniel and Maham Javaid, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Thursday's fire was the second to break out in the span of a week at the airport.
    — Qassim Abdul-Zahra, ajc, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The Huskies will need to break out of their comfort zone, take some risks, and try to move the ball through the air.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 23 Sep. 2022
  • In the kitchen, break out these $80 pans and your soon-to-be new knife set for easy cooking.
    — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The deeper flaw was that no one could break out with new ideas.
    — David E. Hoffman, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Poles signed Pringle and Equanimeous St. Brown with the belief both could break out.
    — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2022
  • And of course a fight breaks out at end of Narbonne-Banning.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Time to break out the fabric, cardboard and hot glue gun!
    — Alyssa Gautieri, Good Housekeeping, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Kino finally agreed and helped lead the charge to break out of the prison.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2022
  • That's the last year for which Hermès broke out his ownership of the firm.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The pair fall madly in love before hatching a plan to break out of the joint.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Routh did visit Ukraine in 2022 after the war broke out.
    — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Time to break out your toolkit and a few nifty craft supplies!
    — Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 29 Nov. 2022
  • At least 700 children have died in Gaza since the Israel-Hamas war broke out.
    — TIME, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Harris said his niece was at a friend’s Sweet 16 party at a hall when the fight broke out.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Feel free to dump your bulky sweaters in the back of your closet and break out your sundresses.
    — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The fire broke out about 1:30 p.m. local time near a home in the Keller Mountain Boulevard area.
    — Tenzin Shakya, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The fire broke out about 1:50 p.m. on Pine Avenue near Harding Street.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2024
  • Points south of Portland should break out of the clouds earlier and warm up a tad more.
    — oregonlive, 17 July 2023
  • Fast-forward to the 2010s, and Henery was breaking out of the British rock scene with Basement.
    — Josh Chesler, Spin, 17 Aug. 2023

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