How to Use breaking point in a Sentence

breaking point

noun

• 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
• 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
• Failure to do so will push more women to their breaking point, and out of the workplace.
  — WIRED, 26 Jan. 2023
• The Black hair salon landscape has hit a breaking point for both clients and stylists.
  — Essence, 8 Apr. 2024
• And some small business owners are at the breaking point.
  — Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2022
• The two of you should then sit down with your houseguests and ask them to try to refrain from those habits that have brought you to the breaking point.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• First, $5 proved to be a breaking point for many drivers, with some choosing to drive less.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 23 Aug. 2022
• New York City's shelters are also at the breaking point.
  — Michael George, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2022
• One such text arrived at a breaking point of sorts for Ms. Nichols, in July 2018.
  — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2022
• Now Israel is at a breaking point but not over a peace agreement.
  — Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 28 July 2023
• When that happened, that was really the breaking point for me.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2022
• Tension builds to a breaking point in Galluppi’s salute to noirs past and present that has a distinct style all to its own.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 8 May 2024
• For Ren, 15 at the time, Abbott’s directive felt like a breaking point.
  — Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2023
• The war has already stretched the relationship to breaking point.
  — Jenny Strasburg, WSJ, 14 June 2022
• And extreme heat can strain many cooling systems to the breaking point.
  — Peter Green, Quartz, 1 June 2024
• The Dodgers have seemingly reached this breaking point.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2024
• By the time Brown lay dead in the street, Ferguson’s Black community had reached a breaking point.
  — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Sep 2024