How to Use tipping point in a Sentence

tipping point

noun

• But for some, the threats and backlash were the tipping point.
  — Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2021
• That, my friend, that was the first tipping point — put it that way.
  — Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2022
• The tipping point came at the start of her senior year in fall 2016.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2021
• White said Courts' death should serve as the tipping point.
  — Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 8 July 2022
• But the world is now already two-thirds of the way to breaching the tipping point.
  — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 11 Aug. 2021
• The survey found that 5.5% mortgage rates seem to be the tipping point.
  — Anna Bahney, CNN, 20 Apr. 2023
• Providers say the staffing crisis has hit a tipping point.
  — Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 9 May 2022
• The three ended up as the tipping point in this series.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2022
• The ice sheets have not yet passed that runaway tipping point.
  — Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2021
• Off the North Slope, this tipping point will be reached sooner.
  — Lois Parshley, Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2022
• Maybe halfway through the evening, the telecast was at a tipping point: The first 90 minutes of the show were a mixed bag.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2022
• But when the tipping point arrived in early 1999, the Navy didn't know what hit it.
  — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• But her cousin reached her tipping point about halfway through the 6-week-long camp.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2022
• The crisis in Niger could reach a tipping point this weekend.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023
• Brando notes that not all of the Amazon may reach that tipping point.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 7 Mar. 2022
• All of that reached a tipping point two years ago when protests that began in the south of Iraq spread to Baghdad.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2021
• But regions will reach a tipping point, and some areas may be close to that.
  — Carolyn Y. Johnson, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2021
• That was the tipping point, Jones said, for the decision to move to remote learning through the end of this week.
  — al, 20 Jan. 2022
• Trump’s effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election was a tipping point for many of them.
  — USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2024
• The timing couldn’t be better, as EVs seemed to have hit a tipping point over the last couple years.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 13 Oct. 2022
• So the latest -- the latest research is that there's not a turning point or a tipping point or a knee in the curve.
  — ABC News, 23 June 2024
• That was likely the tipping point for Marc Trestman, but he wasn’t fired until the end of the season.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 29 Sep. 2021
• But in one way, all this anxiety could pay off: For some, the Delta variant is the tipping point.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2021
• Lately, many on Wall Street say the balance of power—and risk—has hit a tipping point.
  — WSJ, 9 Oct. 2023
• Research on psychedelics and pain, today, is at a tipping point.
  — Oshan Jarow, Vox, 15 May 2024
• More than half a million people are homeless in the US and this year the crisis has reached a tipping point.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2023
• But the numbers have increased in recent years, and locals now say that the city is at a tipping point.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 22 Sep. 2023
• What might be the tipping point in the spread of regional conflicts that could set off a global war?
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2024
• Our research has shown that there are ways to intervene to accelerate the shifts, so that the consumption tipping point comes sooner, averting illness and death.
  — Jonathan Quick, TIME, 9 Aug. 2024
• And the tipping point was when party leaders became convinced after the debate that Biden could not defeat Trump, whom Democrats consider to be an existential threat.
  — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Oct 2024