How to Use breaking point in a Sentence

breaking point

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  • The last year has brought many of us to a breaking point.
    — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 30 Mar. 2021
  • No one should feel pushed or pressured to the breaking point.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • And you get handled so much that there is a huge breaking point.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 31 Mar. 2021
  • No matter the industry, people seem to be reaching a breaking point right now.
    — Edmund Lowman, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
  • For Dhaliwal, who prides himself on his search knowledge, there was a breaking point.
    — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Dao said her breaking point was the killing of eight people, six of them women of Asian descent, in the Atlanta area this month.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2021
  • There were real questions as to whether this -- finally -- would be the breaking point for Republicans with Trump.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Overindulgences in food, drugs and wine threaten to bring old resentments and clashing viewpoints to the breaking point during a weekend reunion of longtime friends.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Naturally, just about everything goes wrong, with Clark reaching his breaking point when his year-end bonus doesn't materialize.
    — EW.com, 30 Nov. 2024
  • In the finale, an emergency meeting decides Peter’s future with the hockey program, and Maya reaches a breaking point.
    — Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Meanwhile, hospitals across the country are full to the breaking point, with patients kept in corridors and supply rooms, and stocks of oxygen and sedatives for intubation running low.
    — Stephen Collinson and Caitlin Hu, CNN, 30 Mar. 2021
  • To believe that there is a connection between this routine behavior and decisions that were made during an unforeseen once-in-a-century pandemic is to stretch oneself to the breaking point.
    — The Editors, National Review, 5 Apr. 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
  • But the breaking point for the couple was when the dog bit their son.
    — Danielle Campoamor, refinery29.com, 7 May 2021
  • Can the Phoenix Suns stay hot and push the Clippers to a breaking point?
    — oregonlive, 25 June 2021
  • How the Fever respond could be the breaking point of the season.
    — J.l. Kirven, The Indianapolis Star, 26 May 2021
  • 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 quarterback development dilemma may be reaching its breaking point across the NFL, as now two of the three quarterbacks taken in the first round of the 2023 draft have already lost their starting role.
    — Tyler Small, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024

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