Sample Sentences for
breach
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  • Telling everyone's secret was a breach of trust, and her friends were really upset.
    breach = breaking (a promise or rule)
  • Anne evidently got through her visit without any serious breach of "etiquette,"  (source)
    breach = breaking
  • The most terrible thing, though, was the fear that the wall could never be breached, that in his heart Alai was glad of the separation, and was ready to be Ender's enemy.  (source)
    breached = penetrated (broken through)
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  • ...the breach in it is wide.  (source)
    breach = gap (in the wall)
  • If the outer wall were breached, archers would be posted on all the roofs.  (source)
    breached = broken through
  • I'm sure you've read about the security breaches over at Rushville and New Castle.†  (source)
  • Look at the whales out there breaching.  (source)
    breaching = rising and breaking out of the water
  • Once the platoon is inside, the breacher is really running things.†  (source)
  • In lieu of Colin's laugh came a period of unbreachable silence.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unbreachable means not and reverses the meaning of breachable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Moral perfection is an unbreached rationality-not the degree of your intelligence, but the full and relentless use of your mind, not the extent of your knowledge, but the acceptance of reason as an absolute.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unbreached means not and reverses the meaning of breached. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • 8TH JUROR: He may have lied. [To the 10TH JUROR.] Do you think he lied? 10TH JUROR: Now that's a stupid question. Sure he lied. 8TH JUROR [to the 4TH JUROR]: Do you? 4TH JUROR: You know my answer. He lied. 8TH JUROR [to the 5TH JUROR]: Do you think he lied? 5TH JUROR: I'm not sure . . . [He breaks off and looks nervously around.] 3RD JUROR [leaping into the breach]: You're not sure about what? ...  (source)
    breach = break
  • If these walls could be breached, don't you think a cow would have done it?†  (source)
  • They have to do with bad manners, or worse, breaches of faith and loyalty.†  (source)
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