breaking up
Example Sentences
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Social media videos show police breaking up Monday's protest and detaining a group of demonstrators who were filmed sitting in the middle of a two-lane highway.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
Read on: Microsoft and OpenAI aren’t breaking up.
From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026
Even if the outcome survives, the case doesn’t justify breaking up the company, Live Nation said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
The BBC has learned that both Merseyside Police and Liverpool City Council are behind the tactic, which they said was "an effective tool" in breaking up groups of youths and "preventing anti-social behaviour".
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
“It was a sickening sensation to feel the decks breaking up under one’s feet, the great beams bending and then snapping with a noise like heavy gun-fire,” he wrote later in his diary.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
