break through

The culture is flooded with talented creative types, most of whom struggle fruitlessly to break through.

“I was good enough to keep hanging around, but never good enough to break through to the majors,” he says.

Police squadrons had to form a “flying wedge” to break through the crowd to rescue blacks besieged in the park.

With the dekiltered surrealism Harold brought to that telling, he'd sometimes break through to what can only be called Art.

And yet if the selfie is the most idealized image of the self, then Cubitt has worked to break through that frozen representation.

Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth: where the rust, and moth consume, and where thieves break through, and steal.

Anyhow, my line is fairly strong, so that if it is not over they will not break through here.

He had an impulse to break through things, to fling obstacles aside, to hurl down all that intervened; and yet he hesitated.

He realized how strong must be the sense of comradeship in Mr. Cornelius to break through his habits of tenacious secrecy.

They could break through the walls of their stables, and no ordinary fence could withstand them.