Example sentences for: breakthrough

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

  • The organization's director calls it "the biggest health breakthrough of this decade."

  • But the NYT version seems to stress instead Serbian intransigence, reporting that "Holbrooke acknowledged he was 'skeptical' of a pledge made at the meeting that Karadzic would be stopped from wielding power behind the scenes in the Serb-held part of Bosnia" and saying the negotiations ended "without any major breakthrough."

  • With less than one week to go before British Prime Minister Tony Blair's "firm" June 30 deadline for a breakthrough on last year's stalled "Good Friday Agreement" on Northern Ireland power-sharing, newspapers in Britain and Ireland are showing concern.

  • The WP cites this factor and adds another: Netanyahu, who is inclined toward GOP sentiments, knows how much a breakthrough before the congressional elections would mean to Bill Clinton, and hence wants to deny him this success.

  • The likelihood that he had heard of these scientific developments seems remote, particularly in view of the fact that Andy Warhol was following the same track of using cartoon material, reputedly in mutual ignorance of Lichtenstein's breakthrough.


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