How to Use flash point in a Sentence

flash point

noun

• The situation reached a flash point when union leaders urged the workers to protest.
• The city became a flash point as political tensions grew.
• Big Tech is a flash point now for antitrust across the globe.
  — Eddie Spence, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2019
• A number of flash points have emerged this week as the two men hit the campaign trail.
  — Chuck Todd, NBC News, 2 June 2023
• The poll comes as taxes become a key flash point in the 2024 election.
  — Byjason Ma, Fortune, 23 June 2024
• Crimea is not the only flash point between the two countries.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2019
• The area was a flash point in the fighting, another site of a prolonged and bloody battle in the war.
  — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
• In the first few weeks of the conflict, headlines became a flash point for readers.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 10 July 2024
• The presence of squeegee kids on Baltimore’s streets has have been a flash point for years.
  — Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2021
• While Poe is an icon, Lovecraft has become a flash point.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023
• Key West’s cruise business has become a statewide flash point.
  — Fran Golden, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Apr. 2021
• The trawlers have become a flash point in an often emotional debate about the fate of the snow crab.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2022
• But her interaction with Cody seemed to be a flash point.
  — Jonathan O'Connell, Paul Farhi and Sofia Andrade, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2023
• Amber Guyger’s case became a flash point for those conflicts and so much more.
  — Mika Brzezinski, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2019
• The Floyd incident came the same day as another racial flash point that shook Wall Street.
  — Sridhar Natarajan, Fortune, 2 June 2020
• But there also has been increased shelling on this potential flash point in the east of the country.
  — ABC News, 20 Feb. 2022
• But, in Buttigieg’s second term, homelessness became a flash point for the city.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019
• Asia has no shortage of flash points, notably over Taiwan and the South China Sea.
  — Susannah Patton, Foreign Affairs, 13 Sep. 2024
• As the pandemic drags on, travel has become a flash point for mask rules.
  — Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2021
• The area surrounding the offices has been a flash point for protesters for months.
  — Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2019
• Exemptions aren’t the only flash points the bills address.
  — Time, 13 June 2019
• How did McDonald’s become a new flash point in the Israel-Gaza war?
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
• Whether such care is right for minors has become a major flash point in the culture wars across the country.
  — Steve Karnowski, ajc, 23 Mar. 2023
• There were flash points between the witnesses and the senators, as well.
  — Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 12 May 2020
• Among the flash points in overtourism is Venice, where some 30 million travelers throng each year.
  — Alexander Pohl, National Geographic, 4 Nov. 2019
• As was true in the football iteration of this series, many of the guys on the ELAC team are at a crucial flash point in their young lives.
  — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2021
• Taiwan has reemerged as a flash point in US-China tensions in recent years.
  — Rebecca Choong Wilkins, Bloomberg.com, 13 Oct. 2022
• Walker’s case is the latest civil rights flash point in Georgia.
  — Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2020
• The latest flash point in the policy debate has been whether to provide long-range rockets to the Ukrainians.
  — The Editors, National Review, 8 June 2022
• One flash point was a video that showed a woman collapsing amid a crowd of protesters.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024