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.
• There were flash points between the witnesses and the senators, as well.
  — Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 12 May 2020
• Cable fees have become a flash point since most of the major sports postponed their seasons in mid-March.
  — Christopher Palmeri, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
• The Floyd incident came the same day as another racial flash point that shook Wall Street.
  — Sridhar Natarajan, Fortune, 2 June 2020
• Nation-wide, wearing masks has emerged as a political flash point, and attempts at enforcement have led to violence and even death.
  — oregonlive, 13 May 2020
• On the other, there is a real threat of an unforeseen flash point in the run-up to the vote — and not necessarily related to Trump.
  — Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 24 June 2024
• Masks in particular have become a flash point as Texas and other states reopen, with clashes over whether the coverings should be required.
  — Madison Iszler, ExpressNews.com, 16 June 2020
• The virus’s origin has become a flash point in the pandemic and ratcheted up tensions between the U.S. and China.
  — Bloomberg News, oregonlive, 3 May 2020
• Although the side-by-side launches mark another first for K-pop’s chart impact, the genre’s track record has been too successful for this week to represent an enormous flash point.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 30 July 2024
• Floyd's death was the flash point, so brazen and ugly, and yet reminiscent of so much other mistreatment of African Americans across the country and here at home.
  — Patricia McKnight, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 June 2020
• The issue has been a flash point following several scandals over safety or effectiveness data that were not publicly shared, prompting a greater push for transparency.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 17 June 2020
• The label is the latest flash point in a contentious debate over tech companies’ responsibility to police falsehoods and hoaxes spread by politicians on their platforms.
  — Cat Zakrzewski, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2020
• 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
• 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
• But there also has been increased shelling on this potential flash point in the east of the country.
  — ABC News, 20 Feb. 2022
• As the pandemic drags on, travel has become a flash point for mask rules.
  — Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2021
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024