Example sentences for: breakaway

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

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

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

  • Reflecting suspicions that the bomb was set by the "Real IRA," a breakaway branch of the IRA (the initial telephone warning was made by a caller using one of that group's code words, though official spokesmen denied responsibility Sunday), Ulster Unionist Party leader and Northern Ireland First Minister David Trimble told the London Sunday Times that "this bomb would not have been made or detonated if Sinn Fein had handed over its explosives and weapons."

  • 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 collections, regularly rotated from the 45,000 works in reserve, range from the Fauves and Cubism to Abstract Expressionism, Dadaism, Surrealism, and all the breakaway factions and reactions which followed them.


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