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 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
• 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
• 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
• The Black hair salon landscape has hit a breaking point for both clients and stylists.
  — Essence, 8 Apr. 2024
• And some small business owners are at the breaking point.
  — Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2022
• The two of you should then sit down with your houseguests and ask them to try to refrain from those habits that have brought you to the breaking point.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• First, $5 proved to be a breaking point for many drivers, with some choosing to drive less.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 23 Aug. 2022
• New York City's shelters are also at the breaking point.
  — Michael George, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2022
• One such text arrived at a breaking point of sorts for Ms. Nichols, in July 2018.
  — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2022
• Now Israel is at a breaking point but not over a peace agreement.
  — Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 28 July 2023
• In 1990, Laverne Pavlinac had reached her breaking point.
  — Kyler Alvord, PEOPLE.com, 5 Nov. 2021
• For the mother of two in suburban Atlanta’s wealthy East Cobb, the breaking point came the first Friday of the school year.
  — Nicole Carr, ProPublica, 5 Oct. 2021
• Last to note is that some of you may be on the breaking point to reach a major personal milestone, an aspiration or a long-term goal.
  — Kyle Thomas, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2024
• During the bankruptcy process, an LDF partner still hounded him to pay, which Coughlin said pushed him to a breaking point and a suicide attempt.
  — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 26 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024