How to Use flash point in a Sentence

flash point

noun
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  • The situation reached a flash point when union leaders urged the workers to protest.
  • The city became a flash point as political tensions grew.
  • Key West’s cruise business has become a statewide flash point.
    — Fran Golden, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Apr. 2021
  • In recent weeks, the issue has emerged as a political flash point.
    — Christopher Snowbeck, Star Tribune, 10 Apr. 2021
  • The poll comes as taxes become a key flash point in the 2024 election.
    — Byjason Ma, Fortune, 23 June 2024
  • Daunte Wright's death has already become a flash point in America's debate over race and police issues.
    — Samuel Viskocil, Star Tribune, 13 Apr. 2021
  • The zoning dispute has become a flash point in a heated battle playing out across Connecticut that challenges the tradition of investing tremendous power in town boards.
    — Eliza Fawcett, courant.com, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Rarely has an issue that so few people encounter — and one that public opinion analysts have only recently begun to study in depth — become a political and cultural flash point so quickly.
    — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2021
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Taiwan has reemerged as a flash point in US-China tensions in recent years.
    — Rebecca Choong Wilkins, Bloomberg.com, 13 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Food has often become a flash point — for good and ill — in moments of war or global conflict.
    — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Another flash point was the fate of two Iranian warships in the region.
    — Jack Nicas, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Meanwhile, flash points are erupting elsewhere in the shadow of the ongoing war.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
  • In Boston, Russell left a lasting mark as a Black athlete in a city — and country — where race is often a flash point.
    — Jimmy Golen, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2022
  • Efforts to pull disagreements out of the candidates have even been a flash point in forums and debates.
    — Julie Zauzmer Weil, Washington Post, 3 June 2022
  • The area, along with neighboring Luhansk, has long been a flash point for conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
    — John Hudson, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2022
  • Kenosha promises to be a flash point in the elections of 2022 and already has been injected into the governor’s race.
    — Dan Balz, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Oct. 2021
  • One flash point was a March 22 court filing Powell made seeking to have the Dominion case dismissed.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Amid this heightened tension, the drone strike in particular became a flash point for the Kremlin.
    — New York Times, 15 Nov. 2021
  • One flash point since the new arrangements came into place at the start of the year has centered on chilled meats, such as sausages, which are staples of German and British cuisine.
    — Pan Pylas, Star Tribune, 2 July 2021

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