How to Use breaking point in a Sentence

breaking point

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  • And some small business owners are at the breaking point.
    — Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2022
  • The Dodgers have seemingly reached this breaking point.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Roughly seven years ago, Kim Ross reached her breaking point.
    — Gabby Shacknai, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • But Cheer episode five also reveals how that same public fame became the breaking point.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Jan. 2022
  • But with high turnover rates and dwindling driver supply, the industry has reached a breaking point.
    — CBS News, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Cassie almost reaches breaking point when a student mistakes her outfit for an Oklahoma!
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The net result is that the U.S. college-to-career pipeline is fast approaching a breaking point.
    — Jeremy J. Wheaton, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2022
  • By the time Brown lay dead in the street, Ferguson’s Black community had reached a breaking point.
    — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2024
  • On the one hand, jihadi violence is stretching the region’s fragile and flawed democracies to breaking point.
    — Clair MacDougall, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Looking back, three years past losing everything, Hamilton Jr. said the incident was a breaking point.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Ian was the breaking point for Sun Groves, a family business in Oldsmar that opened in 1933.
    — Ayurella Horn-Muller, WIRED, 3 Aug. 2024
  • Tension reached a breaking point when Russell allegedly got physical with an extra on set, prompting Clooney to fight the director.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 13 Aug. 2024
  • But these widespread challenges have become far more frequent, with airline employees complaining that they've been stretched to the breaking point by difficult work conditions.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 5 Jan. 2022
  • The walkout represents a breaking point between the two parties, which have been debating new contract terms since the guild's last contract expired in March 2021.
    — Emily Peck, Axios, 2 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • In the dark crevices of the pandemic, our home and work lives have bent to breaking point.
    — Sherry Walling, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • To hear Christie tell it, his breaking point with Trump was the false claims of 2020 election fraud.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 1 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • The fundraiser appears to have been a breaking point for Clooney.
    — Carol D. Leonnig, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
  • 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

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