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
- The situation reached breaking point when his son crashed the family car.
- The situation reached breaking point when his son crashed the family car.
- When laminated glass is stressed beyond its breaking point, it will crack and break, but the pieces will remain in place, still attached to the window frame.
- Facilities that were already underfunded and overstretched are now at breaking point.
- The situation reached breaking point when his son crashed the family car.
- The report on the riot exposed a prison system stretched to breaking point.
- The situation reached breaking point when his son crashed the family car.
- A spokesman for the renal unit at MRI this week confirmed they were at breaking point and may have to start refusing treatment, sending people elsewhere in order to treat the most urgent cases.
- Her nerves were stretched to breaking point.
- Constant use had fretted the sandal strap to the breaking point.
