snapping point
Example Sentences
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At snapping point or still plenty of elastic left?
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2020
As an exhibition, its brief is to break down, through art, the binary male-female face-off that gay and lesbian often represented, to stretch the perimeters of gender to the snapping point.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2017
Did Rees know that he was bending the rules to snapping point?
From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2011
This is why, last month, after tensions nearly reached the snapping point, Obama realized he had to slam the brakes and reverse gears.
From Slate ● May 11, 2010
Every year, just when she’s stressed to the snapping point, she cooks Thanksgiving dinner.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
