Sentence examples for point of collapsing from inspiring English sources

Just when the altar looked on the point of collapsing, a housewife would arrive with another groaning platter, and room would be found.

The croquettes appeared crisp on the outside, but by the time I'd gotten them home they had softened to the point of collapsing when I squeezed each between chopsticks.

The fires, in two of the refinery's three badly damaged, 100-foot storage silos, threatened to weaken the towering structures to the point of collapsing, Chief Long said earlier.

And Nigel Farage, who got a tougher ride and anyway can't compete with the silky facility of a Cameron performance, is – like all the Brexiters – skewered by trying to argue that the EU is simultaneously an omnivorous beast that on 24 June will set about imposing an EU army to which Britain will be forced to contribute, and also on the point of collapsing under its own weight.

MSF has previously warned that the targeting of medical facilities has brought the country's healthcare system to the point of "collapse".

The crisis has weakened the government almost to the point of collapse.

The economy has already been squeezed to the point of collapse, he argues.

With his Somali armies, Aḥmad had harried Ethiopia almost to the point of collapse.

Most worked to the point of collapse, risking their lives against an unfathomable killer.

You want them to be tender to the point of collapse.

Then why do people push themselves to the point of collapse in these events?