breaking up
Example Sentences
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It’s as if our Founding Fathers are breaking up with the king of England, and it’s that part of the breakup when you tell the person you’re breaking up with everything that they did wrong.
From Slate • Jul. 3, 2026
“You’re breaking up those long bursts of sitting,” he says.
From Barron's • Jun. 27, 2026
It all reads like everyone is still mad at The Beatles for breaking up.
From Salon • Jun. 23, 2026
What to do after writing some of this century’s most devastating songs about the torment of breaking up?
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026
Under the microscopes, their long tails furiously lashing, spermatozoa were burrowing head first into eggs; and, fertilized, the eggs were expanding, dividing, or if bokanovskified, budding and breaking up into whole populations of separate embryos.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
