Example sentences for: breakup

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

  • A forced breakup is currently envisioned by the government as coming in two flavors: 1) Carve MS into one company that sells only the Windows operating system and one that would sell other MS software products, and 2) Split the company into two or more nearly identical units.

  • Or whether the recent move to consolidation among the regional companies created in the federal breakup of AT&T will make telephone service better or worse.

  • The breakup of the U.S.S.R. shattered the army into 15 pieces, as Russia lost nukes, ships, bases, and many of its best officers to newly independent republics.

  • Greene, who fled Nazi Germany with his parents in 1939, helped draft the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and presided over the 1981 breakup of AT&T.

  • The AP story about the deal in USA TODAY makes it clear that consolidation is good for business in all kinds of ways, explaining that if it falls through, Lockheed nonetheless collects a $200 million breakup fee.


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