Example sentences for: breakaway

How can you use “breakaway” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Recently, like a breakaway republic, Gardner has added an eighth intelligence and is considering a ninth.

  • Hundreds of civilians have died and at least 160,000 have fled the breakaway republic since Russia began military operations there in the wake of Moscow terrorist bombings.

  • The goal of swaraj (self-rule), proclaimed in 1906, was seen by a moderate Left Center group as government within the British Empire, and by a breakaway revolutionary Extreme Left group as complete independence.

  • Zhu stressed that China expects the same theory of nonintervention to apply to the situation in Taiwan, which Beijing views as a breakaway province that must ultimately be returned to Beijing's control.

  • Perhaps the WP, which calls it a "breakaway region" later on in the piece, was latently distracted by a blink in NYT datelines.


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