How to Use breaking point in a Sentence

breaking point

noun

• The strain reached its breaking point the night of Jan. 12.
  — Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2024
• The last year has brought many of us to a breaking point.
  — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 30 Mar. 2021
• 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
• But the breaking point for the couple was when the dog bit their son.
  — Danielle Campoamor, refinery29.com, 7 May 2021
• Can the Phoenix Suns stay hot and push the Clippers to a breaking point?
  — oregonlive, 25 June 2021
• How the Fever respond could be the breaking point of the season.
  — J.l. Kirven, The Indianapolis Star, 26 May 2021
• The chip business was already stretched to the breaking point.
  — Grady McGregor, Fortune, 14 May 2022
• The breaking point for the two occured the night of Molly's work event.
  — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE.com, 21 Oct. 2021
• 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
• No one should feel pushed or pressured to the breaking point.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
• 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
• Are the Chicago Bulls reaching a breaking point with the fifth-year wing?
  — Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025
• And you get handled so much that there is a huge breaking point.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 31 Mar. 2021
• 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
• The pandemic has united the globe in grief and pushed survivors to the breaking point.
  — Carla K. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Nov. 2021
• Failure to do so will push more women to their breaking point, and out of the workplace.
  — WIRED, 26 Jan. 2023
• Women in health care are at the breaking point and leaving the sector.
  — S. Mitra Kalita, Fortune, 19 May 2021
• The Black hair salon landscape has hit a breaking point for both clients and stylists.
  — Essence, 8 Apr. 2024
• When the ladies take her to task for her actions throughout the season, Mia finally reaches her breaking point.
  — Dave Quinn, People.com, 31 Jan. 2025
• If Williams is trying to answer questions this season, one is looming larger than the rest: How much longer until the Bulls reach a breaking point?
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 6 Mar 2025