How to Use breaking point in a Sentence

breaking point

noun

• The state’s health-care capacity is stretched to a breaking point.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Aug. 2021
• Prince Harry's relationship with the royal family is at a breaking point.
  — Erin Hill, Peoplemag, 31 July 2024
• But now the state is being hammered by the super-transmissible delta variant, and hospitals are getting stretched to the breaking point.
  — NBC News, 24 Aug. 2021
• One of my clients, a VP of engineering at a manufacturing company, found his team at a breaking point.
  — Heather Heefner, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
• After two days of testimony, however, Pace finally reached her breaking point.
  — Neena Rouhani, Billboard, 19 Aug. 2021
• The Karuk Tribe said both ecosystems and economies on the California-Oregon border are strained to their breaking point due to climate change.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 21 Aug. 2021
• During the pandemic, the volume of online shopping taxed the country’s shipping and logistics infrastructure past its breaking point.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2021
• With the grid repeatedly pushed to its breaking point, commercial and industrial (C&I) energy users have helped keep the lights on across the country.
  — Michael Smith, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
• The ongoing tension between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and the rest of the royal family may be reaching its breaking point.
  — Marie Claire, 22 Aug. 2021
• Each Angel encounter, each request from Shinji’s father, each test of his own limits increasingly brings Shinji to his breaking point.
  — Patrick Lucas Austin, Time, 20 Aug. 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
• 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

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024