breaking point

Between the two, something that had been building up for years reached a breaking point.

Meanwhile, the ongoing rise in costs have stretched families' capacity to pay for college to nearly the breaking point.

This was a clear breaking point in the years of simmering discontent between the justices and the annual speech.

Then it charges and stretches the skin of the bubble almost to the breaking point.

Your thumb and middle finger can't exert sufficient force to bring the shell to a breaking point.

But the credit line denial was a breaking point.

Vendors, social services providers, state universities, community colleges and others that have received partial or no funding over the last year are reaching breaking point.

Characters change and mechanics are adjusted, and he identifies this as a possible breaking point.

I think he just reached that breaking point.

Or, some ex-self-quantifiers would say, you could push the drive for perfection to breaking point.

I imagine most writers have made the mistake of falling in love with an analogy and stretching it way past the breaking point.

I let you push me past the breaking point.

My staff are truly, truly at a breaking point.

He means fed up, hit his breaking point, no longer able to take what's happening.