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How to use the word BREAKUP in a Sentence?

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She said that she had just been through a real traumatizing breakup, and she hadn’t healed from it yet and wasn’t ready to get close at all, so we were just being friends.

Teal Oceans Akerson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's been the most beautiful experience of my life having this beautiful breakup.

Jennifer Meyer

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think it's too soon to say it will, however, it's likely that the atmosphere will play an increasing role in ice shelf breakup by weakening them through surface melting.

Julienne Stroeve

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I thought that I found someone who could change me, after the breakup with Cassie Randolph, it was pretty rough. I hit rock bottom. I took a lot of Xanax, not thinking I was going to wake up the next morning. I did and it was really bad.

Colton Underwood

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He’s not feeling us no more, i’m trying to figure out if there’s an insurance policy with the jersey. From the looks of it, it looks like it’s over. It’s like a bad breakup. I guess the fans have to deal with it, so I guess we’re done, too.

Gerald McDonald

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Larry Elder brandished a weapon in conversation with me during our breakup. Larry Elder checked to see if Larry Elder gun was loaded.

Alexandra Datig

Found on CNN
2 years ago

For me, I think after every breakup, at some point I realize that there were a lot of things I ignored that I really shouldn't have, in hindsight, it felt like my hand was forced. I don't think it was ever an independent decision.

Chris Pratt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The effects of the breakup are translating into other areas of their life, even when they're not directly talking about it.

Sarah Seraj

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

Lucinda Williams

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube would all be amazing, independent companies, if you look at all the big breakups in the past in our economy, three to five years post-breakup, the companies are worth more disaggregated. So these stocks are going to skyrocket once breakup actually becomes a reality.

Scott Galloway

Found on CNN
4 years ago

They've done a lot of work behind the scenes to make their breakup as amicable as it seems.

Liat Sadler

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The Warren campaigns call to breakup big tech companies reflects a big is bad, small is beautiful ideology run amok, the proposal ignores the fact that many of the services big tech companies now provide free used to cost consumers money. Breaking up large Internet companies just because they are large wont help consumers. It will hurt them by reducing convenience, reducing quality of service and innovation, and in some cases leading to the introduction of priced services.

Rob Atkinson

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I know some of you are curious about the breakup, but the truth is, it's nobody's business, sometimes things just don't work out and that's OK. She's a wonderful, strong person and I genuinely wish her all the happiness in the world. Now, please go vote on Tuesday, all right ?

Pete Davidson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

In this case, [ the open water is ] 20-30 miles wide and goes all the way from the northeast off Greenland to the northern tip, and even further west, i've been in this business for 26 years and I don't recall that I've seen a breakup this big.

Keld Qvistgaard

Found on CNN
5 years ago

He’s tweeted at me probably 50 times. I’ve been gone for a year. I’m like a breakup he can’t get over, i’m out there living my best life. He wakes up in the morning and tweets at me.

James Comey

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Every time I go through a breakup, it’s not like my heart isn’t broken, they just never did anything to, like, devastate me. They were just good people. Maybe that’s also the secret. I’m attracted to good people.

Jennifer Lawrence

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It doesn’t matter the struggle, it could be a failing business, a bad breakup, mental health, physical health or even just a lousy few months, we’re going to reach out to them and find the absolute best way to put a smile on their face.

El Moussa

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Before, the Sunnis were very sensitive to believing (devolution) would lead to secession, to the breakup of Iraq but now they’re coming to terms with it.

Hoshyar Zebari

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Remodeling after a breakup depends on the individual and the breakup, if it is going to help you be happy and move on then absolutely it’s a necessity. At one New York City interior design firm they even have a term( used internally) for such projects : break-up decoration therapy. Sean Juneja, CEO of Dcor Aid, says Dcor Aid’s important to start in the bedroom, the most intimate space you shared. Even if you ca n’t afford to knock down any walls, paint them.

Emily Lyons

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The Breakup Shop is needed because if you're finding your experiences through that medium, why not end them through that medium? it depends on the degree to which you're involved with somebody.

Robert Weiss

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I'm sure in the 16th century, there were people who said, 'I don't know what to say to my ex; could you say it to her for me?' we jump forward to 'Sex and the City,' and we have the Post-It Note breakup.

Robert Weiss

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We didn't invent the breakup; we didn't invent love; we didn't invent unhappiness. They're all going to happen, that's the reality of breakups. Sometimes, some people will be unhappy. Period.

Mackenzie Keast

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We kind of had a tough breakup because it’s distance and we didn’t want to break up but we had too, i was thinking, if I donate this really cute teddy bear, somebody will want to buy it for their girlfriend or boyfriend, or their mom or dad will want to buy it for their kids.

Amanda Emory

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

As you move further in, the tidal forces would keep increasing and ultimately they exceed the strength of Phobos and that is when you would have a breakup.

Tushar Mittal

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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