NOUN
- a line that when crossed permits of no return and typically results in irrevocable commitment
How To Use point of no return In A Sentence
- Scientists fear that global warming has gone beyond the point of no return.
- He wants a family as much as you do but fertility tests feel like a point of no return. The Sun
- This is the point of no return, where matter is sucked into the black hole itself, where the gravitational pull is so great that not even light can escape - giving the black hole its name.
- The release of Mr Nelson Mandela marked the point of no return in South Africa's movement away from apartheid.
- The release of Mr Nelson Mandela marked the point of no return in South Africa's movement away from apartheid.
- If two doctors agree that the condition has reached the point of no return then it should be agreed to let the person expire with dignity.
- Scientists fear that global warming has gone beyond the point of no return.
- The dam project has reached the point of no return.
- Many glaciologists believe that within a few decades, the Greenland ice sheet may reach a point of no return, after which its near-total meltdown becomes inevitable.
- Russia, he said, had reached the point of no return on the road to reform and had to go forward.