How to Use breakneck in a Sentence

breakneck

adjective

• That’s the kind of breakneck speed with which the Aggies want to play offense in 2021.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Apr. 2021
• Of late, a spate of hip bars and trendy restaurants have popped up at a breakneck pace.
  — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2021
• The breakneck pace — Dustin will die soon — requires all plans to change.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2022
• At this breakneck pace, with this many logistics, flights and rental vans and this and that.
  — Ben Trivett, PEOPLE.com, 22 Oct. 2021
• The breakneck pace of celebrity arrivals on the Met Gala red carpet will do things to you.
  — Alaina Demopoulos, Allure, 2 May 2022
• Case counts have grown at breakneck speed in recent days.
  — Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Nov. 2020
• Lelchuk sets the story over the course of seven days and its breakneck pace can at times feel overwhelming.
  — Mary Cadden, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2021
• The story and chase never stop moving, but not at breakneck speed.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2021
• The events of the last few years took what was already happening and propelled it forward at a breakneck pace.
  — Bradley Jacobs, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2022
• And for all the hard-fought efforts of Ms. Leite and her neighbors, swaths of the Brazilian Amazon are still being cleared and burned at a breakneck pace.
  — Ana Ionova, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Nov. 2021
• The Pacers may be well served putting him on one of the Wizards’ star guards for stretches of the game in order to slow down their breakneck-speed attacks.
  — Tony East, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• Any awkwardness is erased by the cutthroat nature and breakneck pace of TV.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2021
• Technicians have worked at breakneck pace to make repairs, but cannot keep up.
  — Liz Alderman, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2022
• The schedule is breakneck and, to be sure, holding down two jobs can be more than a little exhausting.
  — Gregory McNamee, CNN, 13 June 2021
• These advantages mean Omicron is spreading across the world at a breakneck pace.
  — Sarah Toy, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2021
• The actors bounce around in their seats, rhythmically spitting out the words at a breakneck pace, mimicking the chugging of the train.
  — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 27 May 2021
• Punchy and breezy, his book reads like a bedtime story, the triumphs and cataclysms of life waltzing by at breakneck speed.
  — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
• Since the delta variant became the prominent strain in the state, Christian has been working at a breakneck pace, always on call.
  — NBC News, 29 Sep. 2021
• Many in Idlib have been left to wonder about the state the militants are building at breakneck speed but with little or no input from the public.
  — Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2022
• Something is coming up from deep within you, Cancer, and it’s pushing you along at a breakneck pace.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 21 Sep. 2021
• This tiny decrease is one sign that breakneck price growth is slowing, though many potential buyers won’t have felt the shift.
  — cleveland, 12 Dec. 2021
• The hustle and bustle is happening at the livestock auction down the highway, where sheep and hogs and goats are being sold at a breakneck pace.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2021
• Things developed quickly, along with the breakneck pace of practices.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 16 Mar. 2022
• Fans have been binge-watching the show at a breakneck pace and are sharing their reactions on social media.
  — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 12 Oct. 2020
• College passing games are full of bubble screens and quick throws, played at a breakneck pace designed to keep defensive linemen on the field and suck the air out of their lungs.
  — Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star, 14 May 2021
• Marie follows in an effort to rescue her friend, kicking off a breakneck chase across the French countryside.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 25 June 2022
• The stakes are high, but both teams also face a breakneck turnaround after playing in matches on Sunday.
  — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Nov. 2020
• The breakneck speed of the NFT art market is rankling skeptics who fear a potential bubble or see it as a threat to old hierarchies.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2021
• The density of the puns and the breakneck pace of their delivery, combined with the visual cacophony of the set design, might compel you to watch it on loop.
  — Elvia Wilk, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2022
• For months now, Meta has been warning investors that its revenue can’t continue to grow at the breakneck pace they are accustomed to.
  — Time, 3 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024