split up
Example Sentences
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Manilow grew up poor in Brooklyn, the only son of a Jewish mother and an Irish father who split up right after he was born.
From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026
My acute distress flared up after my wife and I split up and I moved out of our farmhouse in upstate New York to a sparsely furnished apartment.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
Other families split up by deportations to Somalia were also fearful of going on the record - often too traumatised.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
Other questions: What happens if you split up?
From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026
“Since we were going different places to do our training anyway,” she said, “it didn’t seem worth it, to split up properly. So we just stayed together until I left.”
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
