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breakneck

[ UK /bɹˈe‍ɪknɛk/ ]
[ US /ˈbɹeɪkˌnɛk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. moving at very high speed
    a breakneck pace

How To Use breakneck In A Sentence

  • Most of these milestones involve learning and honing a technical skill such as boning a chicken or mincing garlic with the back of a knife at a breakneck speed - a vital skill that I have yet to accomplish or making a certain dish or component of one. Archive 2008-07-01
  • The action, when it happens, is breakneck and breathless.
  • Despite its good-looking veneer, its breakneck pace, its daisy-chain of expert set-pieces, some crucial logic or motive appears to have been junked along the way.
  • Hurtling along at breakneck speed, this smash hit comedy of marital deception guarantees a great night out.
  • Rankin, who can outwrite most anybody in the business, drops one clue too many early on, but he's so deft at maintaining a breakneck .... that readers will zip right along as he swings from whodunit to international conspiracy plot to war-story retribution. Blood Hunt by Ian Rankin: Book summary
  • In the cobbled backstreets mustachioed old men in tweed jackets and gaiters drive decorated carts at breakneck speeds.
  • It's both breakneck fast and much funnier than you would think.
  • It seems so worried about maintaining a breakneck blockbuster pace, in fact, that it skips out on drawing any kind of emblematic story or character-building in favor of VFX-filled action sequences that effectively amount to nothing. “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” worst of the comic book series so far » Scene-Stealers
  • A few boys were running breakneck for the street like beaten dogs.
  • Such circumstance is breakneck, have a bit shake, hang overhead droplight to fall down likely, consequence is very serious.
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