NOUN
- the degree of tension or stress at which something breaks
- (psychology) stress at which a person breaks down or a situation becomes crucial
How To Use breaking point In A Sentence
- Should it worsen further, one would have to be very concerned of how it would affect the sufficiency of liquid milk supplies, and peak processing capacity around the country, which is already stretched to breaking point.
- The heavy box strained the rope to a breaking point.
- Each of the buddies reaches a breaking point with his boss and they collectively decide one drunken night that hiring a hitman is the only solution. Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Horrible Bosses
- The heavy box strained the rope to a breaking point.
- The situation reached breaking point when his son crashed the family car.
- The volume of these ethnic groups plus black migrants strained social services to the breaking point.
- Seven days of Adele would stretch both the linen cupboard and the washer-dryer to breaking point. JUST BETWEEN US
- A towering perennial, which takes on a stately ghostliness by late autumn, it needs a sheltered spot away from strong winds, which might buffet the stems to breaking point.
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- Extension of the individual freedom of conscience decisions to business corporations strains the rationale of these cases to the breaking point.