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 Meanings and Examples of BREACH
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breach
 n.  breaking of contract or duty
Classic Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1  He passed through a breach and entered the town again.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
2  Bauduin's brigade was not strong enough to force Hougomont on the north, and the brigade of Soye could not do more than effect the beginning of a breach on the south, but without taking it.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
3  He treated the strategy of the hostile general like a citadel, and made a breach in it.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815
4  Courfeyrac was energetically making a breach in it.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
5  Then he entered through a gap in the fence into the elephant's enclosure and helped the young ones to clamber through the breach.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
6  And, lowering his rifle, he took aim at the captain of the gun, who, at that moment, was bearing down on the breach of his gun and rectifying and definitely fixing its pointing.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM...
7  The two cannons were now discharging ball against the centre of the barrier in order to make a hole there, and, if possible, a breach for the assault.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—THE VULTURE BECOME PREY
8  This breach, at first insensible, increases slowly, like all separations of branches.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER I—PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HA...
9  We even have, as you may have heard, introduced a barrel of powder under one of the angles, which in blowing up made a very pretty breach.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 46 THE BASTION SAINT-GERVAIS
10  A last discharge welcomed them, but did not stop them; they jumped into the ditch, and prepared to scale the breach.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 47 THE COUNCIL OF THE MUSKETEERS
11  Milady had, then, made a breach by her false virtue in the opinion of a man horribly prejudiced against her, and by her beauty in the heart of a man hitherto chaste and pure.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY
12  They throng again to the breach, and the pass is disputed hand to hand, and man to man.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
13  Gulf impassable, breach indescribable, such as is perhaps nonexistent south of the Trent.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
14  Connie had stood and looked, it was a breach in the pure seclusion of the wood.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
15  Along with that came the widening breach between himself and his mother.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  They felt that our discussions with other companies constituted a breach of/in our agreement.
2  Faceless, unqualified reviewers define our work, remove our colleagues from panels and routinely breach confidentiality.
3  The huge waves made a breach in the sea wall.
4  He admitted causing a breach of the peace.
5  It was a clear breach of professional duty.
6  It is a breach of confidentiality for a priest to reveal what someone has said in the confessional.
7  They will have to seek a judicial remedy for breach of contract.
8  It is not a crime, though it is a breach of stock market rules.
9  Jill sued Jack for breach of promise, claiming he had broken his promise to marry her.
10  Miss Ingram rose solemnly: "I go first," she said, in a tone which might have befitted the leader of a forlorn hope, mounting a breach in the van of his men.
11  No swimers have been found in breach of the huge waves.
12  The breach in the water pipeline was a matter of frustration - a large area of Baghdad without water for twenty hours.
13  For the airport, airline and the British government, Tuesday's incident was an embarrassing breach of security days before the start of the Olympics.
14  A breach of this size and significance demands a comprehensive response from the highest level of our government.
15  A Russian bank has apparently agreed to handle the cash in return for written confirmation that it will face no penalty for breaching US rules prohibiting dealings with North Korea.