breaking point

Everybody panicking when they get the flu will stretch the emergency system to a breaking point.

I met my breaking point in this particular scene—halfway through, I had to be untied and calmed down.

The breaking point came when Ben Yitzhak was fired for violating protocol after allowing Yousef to take short getaways in Israel.

One day, after getting lost and arriving 20 minutes late to my audition, I hit my breaking point.

The ibogaine ceremony begins when her heroin withdrawal reaches a breaking point.

We ought to attempt such a shortening as will strain the machine to a breaking point, but never break it.

Just now the tension had reached the breaking point; the craving for solitude and peace was eating him up.

After that, everything happened to build his tensions to the breaking point.

The series of things she had gone through in the past twenty-four hours had frayed her nerves almost to the breaking point.

And they worked this unhistorical belief to its breaking point in their Biblical exegesis.