How to Use breaking point in a Sentence

breaking point

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Our courts, our prisons, our legal system are stretched to the breaking point.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Around that time, Needtobreathe were at a breaking point.
    — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Emergency services could be stretched to the breaking point.
    — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The wars with the far more numerous and larger Native nations stretched the colonists near their breaking point.
    — Pekka Hämäläinen, Time, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Towards the end of the episode, Molly and Kelly reached a potential breaking point.
    — Kelly Martinez, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The transports seem to have stretched the news media’s critical faculties to the breaking point.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The play seemed like a breaking point for Indianapolis.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Italy has seen a recent surge in migrants that the country's leader believes will push the region to the breaking point.
    — Michael Lee, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Nurses in the United Kingdom have reached breaking point.
    — Anna Cooban, CNN, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The four-​hundred-​year struggle to keep the continent Indigenous had stretched colonists from the European powers, and then the U.S., to the breaking point again and again.
    — Pekka Hämäläinen, Time, 10 Oct. 2022

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