The hulls eventually breached causing an oil spill into the bay and beach at Fajã.

Every time the river eventually breached the slide and drained the lake, leaving a flat-bottomed valley.

In July, 1571 the Turks eventually breached the fortifications and their forces broke into the citadel, being repulsed only at the cost of heavy losses.

Genghis Khan besieged Otrar for five months in 1219, eventually breaching its walls.

The Allies eventually breached the Hindenburg Line by 5 October, and the war was essentially over.

But Spanish troops eventually breached the circle around Mexico City, and Morelos was tried for treason and then executed.

Kanye West's gospel-tinged hip-hop masterpiece Jesus Walks (2004), in many ways a stirring assertion of faith, eventually breached the pop charts, but not without a struggle.

The summit eventually breaches the surface, and the lava and ocean water "battle" for control as the volcano enters the explosive subphase.

Luc orders them to charge, and despite being slowed by barricades, they eventually breach the fortress walls and engage in melee combat with the defenders.

The Spartans eventually breached the fortifications and entered the Theban countryside, devastating the Theban fields in their wake.