breach
noun
the act or a result of breaking; a break or rupture.
was breaching
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past progressiveof breach.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Opening the council's case, Philip Coppel KC said the hotel was breaching planning controls in a "serious, flagrant and continuing" way.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025
Rodriguez said that whale watchers first spotted the waterbound mammal on Dec. 2, but it was not until Sunday that they noticed the rope while the whale was breaching the surface of the ocean.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2024
In seeking its own deal with China, Uruguay was breaching the group’s solidarity.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
Musk’s lawyers fired back that Twitter gave their team a “runaround” that was “alarming,” even after they notified Twitter that the company was breaching an “information rights” clause in the contract.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2022
International organisations have said Poland was breaching humanitarian standards in forcing some migrants back into Belarus, a charge the Warsaw government denies.
From Reuters ● Dec. 7, 2021
