breakneck

Example Sentences

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During the pandemic, they expanded at a breakneck speed to keep up with demand.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Detention centers are being built at breakneck speed.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

And if they had, it was quickly overshadowed by something else in our breakneck news cycle, like FBI director Kash Patel chugging beer with the gold medal–winning men’s hockey team.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2026

Propping up breakneck delivery speeds are gig workers scrambling to hit deadlines.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026

Through technological advances in communication our planet is in the final stages of being bound up at a breakneck pace into a single global society.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan