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
And as I wrote in my review, the game stretches the whole CoD premise to snapping point.
From The Guardian • Dec. 21, 2010
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
