How to Use breaking point in a Sentence

breaking point

noun
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  • Here’s a closer look at how 23andMe reached this breaking point.
    — Bruce Gil, Quartz, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The breadth of the uprising reveals a nation at the breaking point.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 18 July 2021
  • When the pandemic hit, hospitals were pushed to the breaking point and in some instances simply couldn’t cope with the surge of infections.
    — Washington Post, 30 July 2021
  • American motorists and their wheels — cars and trucks; new, used or rented — are the major culprit pushing consumer prices to the breaking point.
    — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 14 July 2021
  • He's seen drivers who transported families of the dead bawling and embalmers who reached their breaking point and found a new profession.
    — Arkansas Online, 24 July 2021
  • But a dramatic new surge in the pandemic represented a breaking point, pushing many to look for solutions at any cost.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 July 2021
  • Eventually, the planner reached her breaking point and left the wedding 30 minutes early.
    — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 25 Sep. 2024
  • During the pandemic, the sheer impossibility of knowing what would happen next has taken all of us who do that work to the breaking point.
    — David M. Perry, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The unexpected arrival of Sienna, a very young woman the boss met in Idaho, is a breaking point.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The delta variant has fueled an enormous surge in infections in Indonesia in recent weeks, stretching the health system to its breaking point.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2021
  • Middleton's ability to work in tandem with Giannis in a two-man game adds layers to an offense that can stretch defenses to their breaking point.
    — Brian Sampson, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
  • The pandemic was a breaking point for low-wage workers like Bonney and Vang, who are fed up with being treated poorly while barely making enough to get by.
    — Alana Semuels, Time, 22 July 2021
  • The strain reached its breaking point the night of Jan. 12.
    — Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The heat is straining the power grid to the breaking point.
    — Carter Evans, CBS News, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The tension was just to the breaking point, and there's yelling, there's cussing.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2022
  • The chip business was already stretched to the breaking point.
    — Grady McGregor, Fortune, 14 May 2022
  • The breaking point for the two occured the night of Molly's work event.
    — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE.com, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Pushed to her breaking point, Harleen is tired of playing by the rules.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Could the fever of our true crime obsession be at the breaking point?
    — Sara Stewart, CNN, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Or did Fritz just drive them all to their breaking points as kids and adults?
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2023
  • In the dark crevices of the pandemic, our home and work lives have bent to breaking point.
    — Sherry Walling, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Steadily over the years, pitchers — and hitters, too — have slowed the pace of play to the breaking point.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Edelson said the school appears to have reached a breaking point.
    — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 13 Feb. 2024
  • To hear Christie tell it, his breaking point with Trump was the false claims of 2020 election fraud.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 1 Mar. 2022
  • In 2015, Chelsea hit her breaking point and left the Special Forces to care for their two boys.
    — CBS News, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The next day, Micah reached a breaking point and brought the source of their tension up with Olivia.
    — Breanne L. Heldman, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The fundraiser appears to have been a breaking point for Clooney.
    — Carol D. Leonnig, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
  • One of them told me the breaking point with KVN was an antisemitic slur.
    — Simon Shuster, TIME, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Without plea deals for those charges, the court backlog would build up to a breaking point.
    — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The pandemic has united the globe in grief and pushed survivors to the breaking point.
    — Carla K. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Nov. 2021

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