breaking point

Example Sentences

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"The country needs order, and is reaching breaking point," the 58-year-old leader said at a public event in La Paz, renewing his appeal for dialogue.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

But Reform's Thomas Kerr has argued that immigration had pushed the system to breaking point.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

Four years ago, Dr. Brandon Williams, an internal-medicine doctor at a hospital in La Jolla, Calif., reached a breaking point.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

"When the nanopillars are closer together, more of them can press on the same virus at once, stretching its outer shell past breaking point."

From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2026

It stretches plausibility to the breaking point that he would have decided to deliver one as important as this off the cuff.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith