What is "broke up"

Usage examples of "broke up".

The family gathering broke up in confusion and everyone went home.

A Ferengi ship broke up yesterday afternoon under the strength of this—.

But her boyfriend just dumped her, her band just broke up, and life could hardly be worse.

But as the laws still bore the traces of an old barbarism, intestine wars and complete anarchy broke out, and the sceptics, a kind of nomads, despising all settled culture of the land, broke up from time to time all civil society.

When it reached the edge of the road, the flowing mob broke up, forming ropes and tendrils and lines of people that washed forward, breaking and recombining, probing into doorways and alleyways, swarming, exploring.

Not daring to run the risk of a battle under the walls of Irkutsk, they immediately broke up the Angara camp.

The party broke up, and Ina and I stayed behind to finish the wine.

We are afraid to say how many magnums were emptied on the occasion, but before the party broke up, which it did not do till a late hour, a general resolution was come to, that a more strenuous effort should be made on the morrow, to induce his majesty to forego his ill-advised journey to London, and instead of endangering his safety by such a senseless attempt, to set up his standard, and summon all his adherents to join him.

These measures decided on, the council broke up, and I went to receive the king, who was this evening to do me the favour of taking his supper in my apartments.

At length the great captain answered them at some length, and they broke up in silence.

The awning put me in the shadow, and the frame, and my floppy hat, broke up the silhouette.

With her blessing, then, Gilbert sailed in 1579, but was compelled to return when his fleet broke up.