Similar words: sticking point, turning point, rallying point, selling point, boiling point, melting point, starting point, freezing point. Meaning: n. 1. (psychology) stress at which a person breaks down or a situation becomes crucial 2. the degree of tension or stress at which something breaks.
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1. The heavy box strained the rope to a breaking point.
2. The situation reached breaking point when his son crashed the family car.
3. Their five-year relationship was strained beyond breaking point.
4. Many families' budgets are already stretched to breaking point.
5. Her nerves were stretched to breaking point.
6. Jill's nerves are stretched to breaking point.
7. Her nerves were at breaking point.
8. The system had a breaking point, we soon discovered.
9. But, like his predecessors, Kissinger never found their breaking point.
10. In the end matters reached breaking point during the tournament in Hilton Head.
11. Everyone knew that a breaking point had to come; and everyone who could took extraordinary measures to protect himself.
12. He reached the breaking point.
13. The rope was strained to a breaking point.
14. Tom White (Colin Friels) is at breaking point as an architectural draughtsman ,(http://Sentencedict.com) his middle class life overpowering him.
15. Breaking point the company must give its color to see.
16. Constant use had fretted the sandal strap to the breaking point.
17. The report on the riot exposed a prison system stretched to breaking point.
18. Analysts fear the overstretched air traffic control system could reach breaking point.
19. Thus replication begets replication, until the costs of these counterproductive activities finally bring the organization to a long-delayed breaking point.
20. Mr Howard said the country's capacity to admit asylum seekers was reaching breaking point.
21. The imagination of the most extreme selectionist is stretched to breaking point by such a situation.
22. I think it has come at a very unfortunate time, putting some stretched farmers at breaking point.
23. In the process, however, nerves and resources were stretched almost to the breaking point.
24. We moved ahead rapidly when the economic collapse of the Depression strained the capacities of families and communities to the breaking point.
25. Impressive enough as a light visual snack, but ultimately a ten-minute gag stretched far past breaking point.
26. Extension of the individual freedom of conscience decisions to business corporations strains the rationale of these cases to the breaking point.
27. The ones who grew up in New York seemed to take it all in stride and precociously had a sense of their breaking point and breezily steered well clear of it.
28. Either fixture would test Fifa president Sepp Blatter's "football family" homily to breaking point.
29. A simulated bridge deck is tested for durability and strength to determine its breaking point.
30. Too heavy a load will strain the rope to its breaking point.
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