Example Sentences

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The Philippine central bank warned inflation will breach 4% this year but kept its policy rate at 4.25% to aid recovery.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

And she’s probably not alone in her worries that a customer or two will breach the substantial but understandably imperfect wall that she has built between her professional and personal lives.

From Slate • Nov. 15, 2018

Campaigners argue that a new runway will breach the UK's legal limits on air pollution and increase noise pollution with an extra 700 planes a day.

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2018

Residents fear floodwaters will breach a dike and carry contaminated silt that has accumulated so deep that the canal is a cattail-filled swamp in some places.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 10, 2017

He hasn’t been shy about telling pretty much anyone who’ll listen he believes oil will breach $100 a barrel in the next 12 to 18 months.

From Forbes • Feb. 19, 2015