How to Use record-breaking in a Sentence

record-breaking

adjective
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  • In April, a teenager in Ohio caught a record-breaking 101-pound blue catfish and set a state record.
    — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 29 May 2024
  • Dion presented the Album of the Year award, which Swift won for a record-breaking fourth time.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The first, finished in the same black on green as the record-breaking car, goes to Jeff Miller of California.
    — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Dubai has been at the forefront of this regional swell in tourism with a record-breaking 2023.
    — Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Approval for Elon Musk’s record-breaking pay package is the norm.
    — Alena Botros, Fortune, 17 June 2024
  • Texas reached the other this summer, as record-breaking heat enveloped the South.
    — Patrick George, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Bey’s record-breaking concert tour is hitting the big screen.
    — Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023
  • In fact, 2024’s average has grown about two months from last year’s record-breaking age.
    — Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik, Quartz, 23 May 2024
  • Dew point approached 80 degrees Friday, which is the record-breaking level for the area.
    — Noor Adatia, Dallas News, 20 June 2023
  • Still, venture capital deals have been few and far between since the record-breaking year of 2021.
    — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2024
  • The storm, given the name Ciarán, pummeled the French Atlantic coast with record-breaking winds and left at least one person dead.
    — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The year of 2023 was a wild one for weather, with many unusual and record-breaking events happening in the U.S. and overseas.
    — Greg Norman, Fox News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • After a record-breaking regular season, the Bruins are knocked out of the playoffs by the Panthers in the first round.
    — Andrew Mahoney, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023
  • Arizona heat:How does the state's wildlife survive record-breaking summer temps?
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2023
  • The bounceback will help the industry reach those record-breaking trillions.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 5 Apr. 2024
  • And comparisons to 2019’s record-breaking global box office are wide of the mark for Acuna.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2024
  • These anglers have been chasing down record-breaking fish for several years and have now added this catch to their list.
    — Sydney Borchers, Fox News, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Even the record-breaking year of 2023 didn’t see these kinds of temperatures until late March and early April.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Cities on the tour saw record-breaking levels of tourism, which helped give a multibillion-dollar boost to the U.S. economy.
    — Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2023
  • The record-breaking skyscraper, which would rise 1,907 feet, would be part of a four-tower structure, according to the release.
    — Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Moon Music is the follow-up to 2021’s Music of the Spheres, which has been supported by a box office record-breaking world tour.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 17 June 2024
  • Hurts clearly seems to be making the most of the $255 million that came with his record-breaking extension contract with the Eagles.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Guinness World Records has yet to certify either of those two tour’s record-breaking sales.
    — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Oct. 2023
  • This will continue the summer’s trend of record-breaking temperatures in the Southwest due to a heat dome that has been parked over the region.
    — Kathryn Prociv, NBC News, 26 July 2023
  • On Tuesday's episode of The View, the actress, 67, sported a funky pair of boots to celebrate the opening of the record-breaking Barbie movie, which hit theaters over the weekend.
    — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 26 July 2023
  • In the past decade, twisters have been inching their way into the Midwest and hitting states such as Missouri in record-breaking severity.
    — Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
  • That’s two record-breaking years in a row for the multi-purpose venue, placing it among the top performing arenas for ASM Global.
    — The Arizona Republic, 9 Jan. 2024
  • If Prince Harry’s record-breaking memoir, Spare, is to be believed, the royals are still cozy with the same tabloids that engaged in this behavior.
    — Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2023
  • That song has of course long been speculated to be about her English ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn; the two broke up last year in the early days of Swift’s record-breaking world tour.
    — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The production famously shot over a record-breaking 400 days.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2024

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