How to Use breaking point in a Sentence

breaking point

noun

• How the Fever respond could be the breaking point of the season.
  — J.l. Kirven, The Indianapolis Star, 26 May 2021
• Women in health care are at the breaking point and leaving the sector.
  — S. Mitra Kalita, Fortune, 19 May 2021
• But the staffing crisis is reaching a breaking point, and the pandemic hasn't helped.
  — Michael R. Sisak and Michael Balsamo, Star Tribune, 21 May 2021
• But the staffing crisis is reaching a breaking point, and the pandemic hasn’t helped.
  — NBC News, 21 May 2021
• Intensive-care units at many major hospitals were at a breaking point.
  — Talal Ansari, WSJ, 17 May 2021
• And it’s not only the result of wives finally reaching their breaking point with their snoring husbands.
  — Wendy Troxel, Time, 2 June 2021
• The sudden influx of prospectors stretched law enforcement far past the breaking point and led to frequent mob justice, including lynchings.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2021
• Later in the season, Indigo reaches a breaking point at a Halloween party.
  — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 10 June 2021
• Though people insist the real trouble resides in her head, a breaking point is always coupled with an environmental shift.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2024
• Life continued to compound, eventually leading him to a breaking point where outside help became the only viable option.
  — Gwenesia Collins, sun-sentinel.com, 14 May 2021
• With the pandemic pushing people’s mental health to the breaking point, Courtney is stepping forward at an important moment.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 11 May 2021
• The strain reached its breaking point the night of Jan. 12.
  — Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 5 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
• Can the Phoenix Suns stay hot and push the Clippers to a breaking point?
  — oregonlive, 25 June 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
• 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
• Balvin hit a breaking point, not only in his image but also in his sound.
  — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
• The quarterback development dilemma may be reaching its breaking point across the NFL, as now two of the three quarterbacks taken in the first round of the 2023 draft have already lost their starting role.
  — Tyler Small, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024