How to Use breakthrough in a Sentence

breakthrough

1 of 2 noun

• This job could be the breakthrough she's been waiting for.
• The police have announced a breakthrough in the murder case.
• Researchers say they have made a major breakthrough in cancer treatment.
• What was the breakthrough that led to the success of the vaccines?
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 2 Oct. 2023
• That truth led to a breakthrough for the Hip-Hop starlet.
  — Rivea Ruff, Essence, 10 Apr. 2024
• But the breakthrough seems to be a step in the right direction, especially for the short-term.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2023
• The real breakthrough, however, came with the K-pop boy band Stray Kids.
  — TIME, 5 Mar. 2024
• Braswell, who joined UPS in 1989, didn’t expect any breakthroughs from the company.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 27 July 2023
• For every breakthrough like Naomi, there’s all those who didn’t make it and are left with the rubble of their career.
  — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2024
• Be flexible enough to alter tack and make room for changes which will offer you breakthroughs in the long run.
  — Debbie Frank, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2024
• The trombone was the vehicle of Lewis’s initial breakthrough.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• But after a week at sea, the breakthrough Loeb had been seeking finally came.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023
• At scale, such a breakthrough could remove the need for bulky batteries and all of the thermal management that comes with it.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 23 Aug. 2023
• At the time, Brooks was the hottest act in music but was less than a decade removed from his own breakthrough that Childers and Skinner had assisted.
  — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2023
• Baltimore hasn’t had the same breakthrough with pitchers.
  — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 7 July 2023
• Public health experts lauded the breakthrough, but cautioned that a lot more needed to be done in the fight against malaria.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
• After a breakthrough year at the plate in 2022, Ornelas has maintained plate discipline at Triple-A, but is not slugging the ball.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 7 Aug. 2023
• The visit comes as senior officials on both sides of the war suggested a breakthrough could be near.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
• The movie was a career breakthrough for director Spielberg, then 27 years old.
  — Erica Lamberg, Fox News, 20 June 2023
• The question has been timely for the last few years, but 2023 felt like a more permanent breakthrough for Spanish-language pop.
  — Pitchfork, 13 Dec. 2023
• Later, on the phone, Gilroy told me that the plant’s existence was a genuine breakthrough, and an elegant piece of science.
  — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2024
• The third film from the blockbuster indie breakthrough earned a measly $12.7 million during its opening weekend.
  — Vulture, 12 Sep. 2023
• The auto workers’ strike against Detroit’s Big Three went into its fourth day with no signs of an early breakthrough and against the threat that the walkout could soon spread.
  — David Koenig, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
• Day two of the three-day Kaiser Permanente strike ended Thursday with no word of a bargaining breakthrough.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2023
• Many of the big breakthroughs in tech over the last few decades have happened because developers have made their tech available to others to use free.
  — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
• The episode will also mark a milestone for Kahan, who will close out a breakthrough year with his SNL musical guest debut.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 29 Nov. 2023
• There are funny monikers, like breakout or breakthrough, but all these things happening now for me at this moment in my life is very is wild.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
• The band is still flying blind, at least where managing their current breakthrough is concerned.
  — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2024
• During that time Ukrainian forces have not been able to achieve any decisive breakthrough on the battlefield.
  — Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 25 Sep. 2023
• But even so, neither seems to have any prospects for significant breakthroughs on the battlefield.
  — Branislav L. Slantchev, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2024

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break through

2 of 2 verb

• Y’all are just going to have to break through the door.
  — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 12 Apr. 2024
• Y’all are just going to have to break through the door.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2023
• Once ice on the lake is less than a foot thick, a towboat and barge can break through.
  — Journal Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2024
• In the 14th minute, Judd broke through the Timbers’ back line and fired a shot out of Bingham’s reach.
  — oregonlive, 25 Mar. 2023
• But by his side, not heavy enough to break through the ice, was his dog, Ruby.
  — Lauren Liebhaber, Kansas City Star, 19 Jan. 2024
• After a back-and-forth first half hour, the Timbers broke through.
  — oregonlive, 10 Sep. 2023
• Still, these interjections fail to break through the monotony of the show.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 12 Apr. 2024
• Austin Ekeler broke through a big hole on the first play during 11-on-11.
  — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2023
• But give it a few more years, say some researchers, and one or two of these could very well break through.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2023
• Dolce Zel was the 8-to-5 favorite before breaking through the gate.
  — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2023
• To break through, the Republicans will need to stage their own show.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 14 Dec. 2023
• Shanahan dialed up the trick play in a moment in which the team needed to break through.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2024
• To break through the concrete mask of a certain feeling at a certain time.
  — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 5 Sep. 2023
• Now, candidates are racing to break through the fog before the polls close in less than a month.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 11 Apr. 2024
• Which school will break through to join the Big Three in the Division 1 semifinals?
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• These odds and ends all come from sellers looking to break through and make a buck on Black Friday.
  — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 20 Nov. 2023
• Now the challenge is to come back to her home state and help an old franchise to finally break through.
  — David Waldstein, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2023
• But the Royals finally broke through in the sixth inning.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 23 Apr. 2024
• After breaking through the lower part of the gate, the thief took a dolly out of the van and strode up the driveway toward the storage area.
  — Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
• Soon after, Shadowlands forces break through the Crab’s giant wall and start to lay waste to the country side.
  — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Auburn broke through in the third inning on Kason Howell's two-out solo home run over the left-field wall.
  — Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 18 Mar. 2023
• His efforts to tout his achievements so far have struggled to break through to voters.
  — Justin Sink, Bloomberg.com, 8 Feb. 2023
• The brothers are determined to break through in Nashville.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 1 Apr. 2024
• Tupac wasn’t only breaking through on the charts, but also on the silver screen.
  — Stephanie Fasano, ABC News, 21 Sep. 2023
• The crew had been told that the cloud cover was at 400 feet, and peered into the whiteness, expecting to break through at any moment.
  — Ellen Barry Hilary Swift, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• Now, the challenge for the president and his team is to find a way for their message to break through with the American people.
  — Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 26 June 2023
• The extended forecast is calling for a mix of rain and sun breaks through the end of the weekend and into early next week.
  — oregonlive, 15 Mar. 2023
• Five pitches later, the Giants had broken through in the run column, too.
  — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 21 Apr. 2024
• Hamas fighters would then break through 60 points in the wall, storming across the border into Israel.
  — Adam Goldman, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• The most important one is that Milwaukee broke through the sea of disarray to win, 11-8.
  — Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024