Example Sentences

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“They made a big party and social event, where they were breaching and tail slapping,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2023

BBC News NI's Evening Extra programme learned that all health trusts were breaching the target of 80% of samples being reported within four weeks.

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2022

An embassy spokesman at the time questioned whether many Haitians who were breaching the U.S. border had in fact previously been living in Chile.

From Washington Times • Sep. 22, 2021

In May, when the Taliban were breaching the outskirts of the southern city of Lashkar Gah, a hodgepodge group of border force soldiers were holding the line.

From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2021

I started seeing reports about the west front of the Capitol and how they were breaching some barricades there and trying to get on the inaugural platform.

From Slate • Jan. 7, 2021