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Definition of breaking point in English: breaking pointnoun The moment of greatest strain at which someone or something gives way. social and political tensions have now reached breaking point her nerves were stretched to breaking point Example sentencesExamples - Their unwillingness to be open and honest will be the breaking point of any decommissioning process.
- We all have our breaking points, and this just happened to be mine.
- Credibility is strained to near breaking point by incidents like this but never quite snaps.
- He knows very well the breaking point at which people lose their patience and give him a thrashing.
- We are deluged with trivial information and pointless musings which strain the patience to breaking point.
- The people are labouring beyond their breaking points, all for nothing.
- After years of barking up the wrong tree, I have reached the breaking point.
- The breaking point was when we started to control another nation.
- The issues were slightly more complex than that, but that was the final breaking point really.
- The brutal battle raged all day as wave after wave of enemy infantry and tanks were hurled against defences strained to breaking point.
- If anything, they are likely to keep on increasing until a breaking point is reached.
- I used to consider myself a strong person but everybody has their breaking point.
- Which means, effectively, sending more people to prison at a time when our prisons are straining to breaking point.
- Women frolic, men pose and the sun scorches the sand while relationships are strained to breaking point.
- The breaking point came when she heard of a big bomb blast in one of the busy markets in Delhi that her parents frequented.
- Can hope be discovered and sustained for those who have gone beyond their breaking point?
- That information was then used to identify detainee breaking points.
- I tried to get down as fast as I could, bringing my comfort level past the breaking point.
- Those things have to be worked out, but things are getting to the breaking point.
- I can look back and see my breaking points as well as the points where I started to put myself back together.
Synonyms utmost, extremity, greatest extent, ultimate, end point, the bitter end
Definition of breaking point in US English: breaking pointnounˈbrākiNG ˌpointˈbreɪkɪŋ ˌpɔɪnt The moment of greatest strain at which someone or something gives way. her nerves were stretched to the breaking point the tense situation reached the breaking point late last week Example sentencesExamples - The people are labouring beyond their breaking points, all for nothing.
- The breaking point was when we started to control another nation.
- Which means, effectively, sending more people to prison at a time when our prisons are straining to breaking point.
- The issues were slightly more complex than that, but that was the final breaking point really.
- The breaking point came when she heard of a big bomb blast in one of the busy markets in Delhi that her parents frequented.
- Their unwillingness to be open and honest will be the breaking point of any decommissioning process.
- Women frolic, men pose and the sun scorches the sand while relationships are strained to breaking point.
- We are deluged with trivial information and pointless musings which strain the patience to breaking point.
- That information was then used to identify detainee breaking points.
- Can hope be discovered and sustained for those who have gone beyond their breaking point?
- He knows very well the breaking point at which people lose their patience and give him a thrashing.
- We all have our breaking points, and this just happened to be mine.
- After years of barking up the wrong tree, I have reached the breaking point.
- I can look back and see my breaking points as well as the points where I started to put myself back together.
- If anything, they are likely to keep on increasing until a breaking point is reached.
- I used to consider myself a strong person but everybody has their breaking point.
- Credibility is strained to near breaking point by incidents like this but never quite snaps.
- Those things have to be worked out, but things are getting to the breaking point.
- The brutal battle raged all day as wave after wave of enemy infantry and tanks were hurled against defences strained to breaking point.
- I tried to get down as fast as I could, bringing my comfort level past the breaking point.
Synonyms utmost, extremity, greatest extent, ultimate, end point, the bitter end
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