How to Use break with in a Sentence

break with

phrasal verb

• So Thomas got the same money and the Heat got a cap (and tax and apron) break with the agreement.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2024
• This was all, of course, before her big break with the 1992 romcom Boomerang.
  — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 15 Aug. 2024
• His break with Johnson helped narrow the gap, but not by enough to win.
  — Ian Prasad Philbrick, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
• Ties in any round will be broken with a 60-second swing-off.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2023
• Murphy got her big break with a role in Clueless (1995).
  — Caroline Frost, Deadline, 21 Dec. 2024
• LeBron James scooted up the left side of the court, and the Lakers triggered the break with an outlet.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
• There’s a good chance that string will break with the 2026 election, regardless of how Atkins does.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024
• For Paris the consequence has been a break with the brotherhood.
  — Nurith Aizenman, NPR, 12 May 2024
• The Bruins head into the three-day Christmas break with their best gut-check win of the season.
  — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 23 Dec. 2024
• For years, the best place to be in Hollywood was on a smoke break with Lynda Obst.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Feb. 2024
• The few designers that did break with the rest of the industry back then faced swift backlash.
  — Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 20 Jan. 2025
• The Devils had a chance to make a strong statement coming out of the break with a weekend home-and-home against the Hurricanes.
  — Sean McIndoe, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
• So far, the opposite has happened, as the Orioles entered the All-Star break with the third-best record in the major leagues at 54-35.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2023
• Other figures on the left have publicly broken with him more and more.
  — A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2024
• But the Panthers get a big break with a roughing the punter penalty on their third possession.
  — Staff Reports, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Dec. 2024
• But Tito began to add his guitar parts to their recordings when the brothers broke with Motown and signed with Epic in the mid-’70s.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 16 Sep. 2024
• Christie, who was also once a close Trump ally, broke with the former president in the wake of the 2020 election.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
• Khachaturyan insists breaking with Russia is not part of the plan.
  — Charlie Campbell / Yerevan, TIME, 22 Oct. 2024
• This time, though, Israel faces a rare break with Washington.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
• On a break with colleagues one day, Takala feared that her beverage order might be a tell.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• Look, at some point some of these members are going to break with the president on some issue.
  — NBC News, 26 Jan. 2025
• Parents keen to experience a city break with kids in tow might want to jet off to Toronto.
  — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 22 Oct. 2023
• The Warriors are emerging from the All-Star break with a clear path to the postseason ahead of them, but with little room for error to take a wrong turn.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2024
• O’Connor broke with precedent to broadly side with the Brackeens.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 15 June 2023
• But San Francisco got a huge break with a holding call on Kansas City.
  — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2024
• Laid on top of the eerie beats that have become the norm in his hometown, his raps cast a spell that can only be broken with a splash of holy water.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 2 Jan. 2024
• And until this week, Biden had broken with custom and declined to invite Netanyahu to the White House.
  — Owen Tucker-Smith, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2023
• The younger generation wants a sharp break with the past, and the president is listening.
  — Robert B. Zoellick, WSJ, 7 June 2023
• Unwilling to break with party loyalties, the board decided to keep the position vacant until a special election can be held.
  — Harvey Levine, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025
• In a dramatic break with much of their party, ten Senate Democrats voted alongside Republicans on Friday to pass a six-month funding bill, averting a government shutdown with just hours to spare.
  — Nik Popli, TIME, 14 Mar. 2025