How to Use flash point in a Sentence

flash point

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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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • In recent weeks, the issue has emerged as a political flash point.
    — Christopher Snowbeck, Star Tribune, 10 Apr. 2021
  • In the decades since, the memorial and its surroundings have served as a flash point for the treatment of Native Americans.
    — Amy McKeever, National Geographic, 28 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • EVs are the latest flash point in a broader trade dispute over Chinese government subsidies and Beijing’s burgeoning exports of green technology to the 27-nation bloc.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 5 July 2024

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