Example Sentences

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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

That act resulted in a warning from a local infection control team, she explained, adding: "I got told that I was breaching infection control rules."

From BBC • Jan. 25, 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